enotalone Home  |  Forum  |  Search    
Leading with a Limp
Turning Your Struggles into Strengths
by Dan B. Allender
List Price: 19.99


Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: WaterBrook Press (May 16 2006)
Costumer Rating: Costumer rating

Read an Excerpt

A Leadership Confession
Pick up most leadership books and you'll find strategies for leveraging your power and minimizing your areas of weakness. But think about the leaders whose names have gone down in history. Most of them were so messed up that, if they were looking for work

A Leadership Confession
Pick up most leadership books and you'll find strategies for leveraging your power and minimizing your areas of weakness. But think about the leaders whose names have gone down in history. Most of them were so messed up that, if they were looking for work

Flight Is the Only Sane Response
There are two common stories I hear from students who come to Mars Hill Graduate School. One group of students will say, 'I didn't want to be here. I was working in Washington DC/Portland/Charlotte/Chicago. I loved my job, my church, and my friends



Book Description

Put your flawed foot forward.

Pick up most leadership books and you'll find strategies for leveraging your power and minimizing your areas of weakness. But think about the leaders whose names have gone down in history. Most of them were so messed up that, if they were looking for work today, no executive placement service would give them the time of day.

God's criteria for choosing leaders runs counter to the conventional wisdom. Our culture equates strength with effectiveness, but God favors leaders who know the value of brokenness.

In Leading With a Limp, you'll discover what makes flawed leaders so successful. They're not preoccupied with protecting their image, they are undaunted by chaos and complexity, they are ready to risk failure in moving an organization from what is to what should be. God chooses leaders who aren't deceived by the myths of power and control, but who realize that God's power is found in brokenness.

If you are a leader-or if you have been making excuses to avoid leading-find out how you can take full advantage of your weakness. A limping leader is the person God uses to accomplish amazing things.

About the Author

Dan B. Allender, Ph.D.Dan B. Allender, Ph.D.

Dan B. Allender, Ph.D., is the President of Mars Hill Graduate School, in Seattle, Washington. He taught in the Biblical Counseling Department of Grace Theological Seminary for seven years, then was a professor in the Master of Arts in Biblical Counseling program at Colorado Christian University, Denver. Dr. Allender is the author of The Wounded Heart and has coauthored two books with Dr.

  » More by Dan B. Allender, Ph.D.