
Slightly dated, but eternal truths there too. - You probably already own this book, but I have found that rereading it periodically sheds crucial new insights into the current leadership challenges I face. Sanders wrote this while Consulting Director of the Overseas Missionary Fellowship in the 1960 s. This excellent compilation of messages to missionary leaders is perpetually relevant. Here are all the chapter titles: An Honorable Ambition, The Search For Leaders, The Master s Master Principle, Criteria of Spiritual Leadership, Pauline Sidelights on Leadership, Petrine Sidelights on Leadership, Qualities Essential to Leadership (1, 2), The Indispensible Requirement, The Leader and His Praying, The Leader and His Time, The Leader and His Reading, Improving Leadership Potential, The Cost of Leadership, The Responsibilities of Leadership, Searching Tests of Leadership, The Art of Delegation, The Replacement of Leaders, The Reproduction of Leaders, The Peculiar Perils of Leadership, Nehemiah an Exemplary Leader. Includes a very helpful Scripture index.
The best book on leadership...and it is written by a leader! - Many Christian books on leadership draw heavily from secular influences. They are also written by leaders without heavy responsibility in their positions, or worse yet, psuedo-leaders who are mainly theorists. Not this one. The author, the leader of Overseas Missionary Fellowship till his death, was emminently qualified to write this book, and it is helping me like no other leadership book to become qualified to lead my own Fellowship.If you can obtain the non-Completly Updated edition it would be good to read it along side the new version.
Do you have what it takes to be a Leader? - This book sets you on the right track, to help you become a greater leader. This life-changing book is a definate must for all that want to accomplish your God-given destiny.
Scripture based teaching on Biblical Spiritual Leadership - Provocative, insightful, and complete, J. Oswald Sanders brings to life several key leadership qualities of someone desiring a deeper walk with Jesus Christ, thus developing attributes of Spritual leadership. Specific qualities of Leadership is discussed as well as a Bibical example in the life of Nehemiah.