{"product_id":"transforming-leadership-jesus-way-of-creating-vision-shaping-values-empowering-change-paperback","title":"Transforming Leadership: Jesus' Way of Creating Vision, Shaping Values Empowering Change - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLeighton Ford\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA book for leaders, by leaders, about the greatest leader of them all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn our rapidly changing and ever more complex world, we suffer a crisis of leadership. Leighton Ford sees the growing dearth of bold leaders--in the marketplace, religion and public life. In this powerful book, Ford calls Christians to be transformational leaders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany leaders work within situations; transformational leaders change situations. Many leaders accept what can be talked about; transformational leaders change what can be talked about. Many leaders talk about payoffs; transformational leaders talk about goals. Many leaders bargain; transformational leaders appeal to a common vision.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFord realizes that desperately needed Christian and transformational leadership will not emerge until we have a model of the transforming leader. And what more powerful example of leadership could there be than Jesus? Insightfully examining Jesus' work and the best recent books on leadership, Ford presents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe leader as strategist\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe leader as seer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe leader as seeker\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe leader as servant\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe leader as struggler\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe leader as sustainer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eExecutives, pastors, managers, professionals--all will benefit from this fresh, in-depth treatment by a man who is himself one of the world's finest Christian leaders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeighton Ford is President of Leighton Ford Ministries, which seeks to help young leaders worldwide to lead more \u003ci\u003elike\u003c\/i\u003e Jesus and more \u003ci\u003eto\u003c\/i\u003e Jesus. For many years, Ford communicated Christ around the globe through speaking, writing and media outreach, addressing millions of people in thirty-seven countries on every continent. He served from 1955 until 1985 as Associate Evangelist and later Vice President of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and was featured as the alternate speaker to Billy Graham on the \u003ci\u003eHour of Decision\u003c\/i\u003e broadcast. Ford describes his current mission to be \"an artist of the soul and a friend on the journey.\" He served for nearly twenty years as chairman of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization, an international body of Christian leaders. He chairs the Sandy Ford Fund and has served as a board member for World Vision U. S., the Duke University Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He received the 1990 Two Hungers Award, recognizing his contributions to addressing the physical and spiritual hungers of people around the world. In 1985 he was selected as Clergyman of the Year by Religious Heritage of America and \u003ci\u003eTIME Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e singled him out as being \"among the most influential preachers of an active gospel.\" The author or co-author of numerous books, including\u003ci\u003eTransforming Leadership\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Attentive Life, \u003c\/i\u003e Ford lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with his wife Jean.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.96 x 8.16 x 5.48 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 11, 1993\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51779227484448,"sku":"9780830816521","price":38.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/99b61454eb3d5897678a260322c81543.webp?v=1780513806","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/transforming-leadership-jesus-way-of-creating-vision-shaping-values-empowering-change-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}