Kenneth Blanchard and Phil Hodges, Lead Like Jesus: Lessons from the Greatest Leadership Role Model of All Time. Thomas Nelson, 2008.
Referenced in: Servant Leadership
LifeandLeadership.com Summary
Here the authors explain the concepts that are introduced in the story-formatted Leadership by the Book, and organize the principles of servant leadership into 365 devotionals around a four-piece framework:
- Heart – inner character
- Head – strategies, methods
- Hands – specific leadership actions
- Habits – consistent, predictable disciplines
Each devotional contains a principle, a scripture, and a prayer for the day.
This text contains the same ideas found in Leadership By the Book, but breaks from Blanchard’s trademark story format to give succinct guidance. It also adds a chapter on five spiritual habits of a servant leader: solitude, prayer, study and application of scripture, accepting and responding to God’s unconditional love, and involvement in supportive relationships.
From the Publisher
“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.” – Ken Blanchard
With simple yet profound principles from the life of Jesus and dozens of stories and leadership examples from his life experiences, veteran author, speaker and leadership expert Ken Blanchard guides readers through the process of discovering how to lead like Jesus. He describes it 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.
About the Author
Ken Blanchard is the chief spiritual officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies, a global leader in workplace learning. He is the coauthor of several bestselling books, including the blockbuster international bestseller The One Minute Manager and the giant business bestsellers Whale Done! and Raving Fans. He and coauthor Phil Hodges founded the ministry Lead Like Jesus and coauthored the bestselling book Lead Like Jesus. His books have combined sales of more than eighteen million copies in more than twenty-five languages.
Blanchard has a B.A. in government and philosophy, an M.A. in sociology and counseling and a Ph.D. in educational administration and leadership. Phil Hodges served as a human resource and industrial relationship manager in corporate America for thirty-six years. An advocate for older people in the workplace, he also has extensive experience in interpersonal dispute resolution and is certified by the County of Los Angeles as a mediator. Phil has used his leadership skills in numerous volunteer activities. Most recently, he completed six years as chairman of his home church, which has a congregation of 3,000. He is coauthor of three books: Leadership by the Book with Ken Blanchard and Bill Hybels, and The Servant Leader and Lead Like Jesus with Ken Blanchard. Phil and his wife, Jane, reside in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.
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