Schuyler Totman

Ironies Leaders Navigate (eBook, ePUB)

What the Science of Power Reveals about the Art of Leadership and the Distinct Art of Church Leadership

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Leaders constantly rely upon power. In fact, leadership and power have so much in common that their definitions are often functionally identical. Every act of leadership is an act of power. Hence, the better we understand power, the better we understand leadership. What, then, are the consequences if, as scholars argue, different people understand power differently and often fundamentally misunderstand power? One consequence turns out to be the emergence of a number of ironies. Another consequence is the opportunity to understand leadership settings better through a careful, redeeming, synergistic look at power. To that end, this book first presents roughly sixty studied, power-related dynamics, and then takes a closer look at how these dynamics clarify leadership settings. Ultimately, this study seeks a better understanding of a particular leadership setting--the local church. Challenges distinct to this setting are explored in marked sections, while the book as a whole offers useful lenses through which to assess the challenges all leaders navigate.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781630877682
• Artikelnr.: 63251840

Autorenporträt

An occasional leader and a constant student of leadership, Schuyler Totman is the founder of Same Door Resources, an organization that works with leaders and groups to manage conflict by understanding it before it happens. He also helps to prepare expectant fathers to become excellent dads through several hospitals around Denver, CO, where he lives with his patient wife Michelle and their two precocious children.