Lead Like Jesus Revisited: Lessons from the Greatest Leadership Role Model of All Time

by Ken Blanchard, Phil Hodges

Overview

"The more I read the Bible, the more evident it becomes that everything I have ever taught or written about effective leadership over the past 25 years, Jesus did to perfection. He is simply the greatest leadership role model of all time."

Effective leadership—whether on the job, in the community, at church, or in the home—starts on the inside. In this revised classic, renowned leadership expert Ken Blanchard guides you through the process of discovering how to lead like Jesus.

Before you can hope to lead anyone else, you must know who you are. Every leader must answer two critical questions. One deals with your relationship to Christ. The other with your life purpose.

• Whose are you going to be?
• Who are you going to be?

Learning to lead like Jesus can be described as the process of aligning two internal domains (the heart and the head) and two external domains (the hands and the habits). These four dimensions of leadership form the outline for this very practical and transformational book, from which you will learn how to:

• Integrate your faith with your role and responsibility as a leader
• Identify your priorities
• Build your relationship with God in a new and personal way
• Move from success to significance
• Lead out of service rather than self-interest
• Put the love of Jesus into action

With simple yet profound principles from the life of Jesus, and dozens of stories and leadership examples from his own life, Ken Blanchard once again shows us the way effective leaders lead.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780718077259
Publisher:	Nelson, Thomas, Inc.
Publication date:	04/19/2016
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	166,016
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Ken Blanchard is the coauthor of The One Minute Manager® and fifty other books, including the New York Times business bestsellers Gung Ho! and Raving Fans. His books have combined sales of more than eighteen million copies in more than twenty-seven languages. He is the chief spiritual officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies, a full-service global management training and development company that he and his wife, Dr. Marjorie Blanchard, founded in 1979.

Phil Hodges served as manager of human resources and industrial relations in the United States business world for about thirty-six years. He is the co-author of three books: Leadership by the Book by Ken Blanchard with Bill Hybels and The Servant Leader and Lead Like Jesus by KenBlanchard.

Table of Contents

Introduction xi

Part I A biblical Perspective on Leadership

Chapter 1 Are You a Leader? 3

Chapter 2 The Greatest Leadership Role Model of All Time 9

Chapter 3 Jesus the Servant 13

Chapter 4 Is Jesus a Relevant Role Model for Us Today? 17

Chapter 5 A Transformational Journey That Begins on the Inside 23

Chapter 6 The Four Domains of Leading like Jesus 35

Part II The Heart of a Great Leader

Chapter 7 What Does Leading Like Jesus Look Like? 43

Chapter 8 Want to Lead Like Jesus, but My Heart Does Not 49

Chapter 9 The Results of a Heart Out of Order 53

Chapter 10 Warning Signs on the Path to Edging God Out 65

Chapter 11 A Heart Turnaround 73

Part III The Being Habits

Chapter 12 The Habit of Accepting and Abiding in God's Unconditional Love 89

Chapter 13 The Habit of Experiencing Solitude 95

Chapter 14 The Habit of Practicing Prayer 99

Chapter 15 The Habit of Knowing and Applying Scripture 105

Chapter 16 The Habit of Maintaining Supportive Relationships 115

Part IV The Head of a Great Leader

Chapter 17 Developing Your Own Compelling Vision 125

Chapter 18 Jesus' Compelling Vision 135

Chapter 19 Creating a Compelling Team/Organizational Vision 141

Chapter 20 Implementing Your Compelling Vision 155

Part V The Hands of a Great Leader

Chapter 21 The Leader as a Performance Coach 167

Chapter 22 The Work of the Carpenter 173

Chapter 23 The Way of the Carpenter 179

Chapter 24 The EGO Factor 199

Part VI The Doing Habits

Chapter 25 The Habit of Obeying God and Expressing His Unconditional Love 211

Chapter 26 The Habit of Grace 217

Chapter 27 The Habit of Forgiveness 221

Chapter 28 The Habit of Encouragement 227

Chapter 29 The Habit of Community 231

Chapter 30 Leading Like Jesus Begins in You 239

Part VII Next Steps to Leading Like Jesus

Chapter 31 Leading Positive Change 247

Chapter 32 EGOs Anonymous: Taking the First Step Toward Exalting God Only 259

Next Steps to Leading Like Jesus: Checklist 269

Next Steps to Leading Like Jesus: Resource List 271

Discussion Guide 275

Acknowledgments 295

Notes 297

About the Authors 303

Index 307

Scripture Index 315