Christianaudio.com
has recently released Next Generation Leader by Andy Stanley. In the book, well-known
pastor Andy Stanley teaches five traits that he sees as essential to the
development and success of any leader. As the title suggests, the book is aimed
to provide helpful advice to those who are emerging as, or desire to be, the
next generation of leaders. The book is clearly written, easy to follow, and
the narration by Lloyd James is excellent.
Stanley
explains and gives examples of the following five essential leadership traits:
- Competence
- Courage
- Clarity
- Coaching (even leaders need coaches)
- Character
Much of the
advice found in the book is helpful and practical. The lessons are good but anyone
who has read almost anything else on the subject of leadership will have heard
most of this already. There is nothing revolutionary about Stanley’s
suggestions.
As someone
who is both a business manager as well as serving in ministry, I was disappointed
that Stanley indiscriminately applied general leadership ideas that are common in
the business world to ministry. He used the Bible more often to furnish illustrations
of how to apply common management wisdom than using it as the source of a
distinctively Christian view of leadership.
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I received a free copy of this book from christianaudio.com as part of their Reviewers
Program. Reviews are not required to be positive and the opinions I have
expressed are my own.
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