How to lead when you're not in charge : leveraging influence when you lack authority / Clay Scroggins.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Grand Rapids, Michigan : Zondervan, [2017]Description: 230 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0310531578
- 9780310531579
- 0310536960
- 9780310536963
- How to lead when you are not in charge
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Main Library | NonFiction | 158.4 S435 | Checked out | 06/19/2024 | 33111009269198 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Are you hungry to help others through leadership but don't feel like you have the authority
One of the greatest myths of leadership is that you must be in charge in order to lead. Great leaders don't buy it. Great leaders--whether they have the official authority or not--learn how to be an influential presence wherever they are.
In How to Lead When You're Not in Charge, author and pastor Clay Scroggins explains the nature of leadership and what's needed to be a great leader--even when you answer to someone else.
Drawing from biblical principles and his experience as the lead pastor of Buckhead Church in Atlanta, Georgia, Clay will help you nurture your vision and cultivate influence with integrity and confidence, even when you lack authority in your organization or ministry.
In this book, Clay will walk you through the challenge of leadership and the four basic behaviors all great leaders have and how to cultivate them:
Leading yourself Choosing positivity Thinking critically Rejecting passivityWith practical wisdom and humor, Clay Scroggins will help you free yourself to become the great leader you want to be so you can make a difference. Even when you're not in charge.
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"This book will be one of the most, if not the most, pivotal leadership books you'll ever read." - Andy Stanley
"If you're ready to lead right where you are, this book can show you how to start." - Dave Ramsey
"Read this book! The marketplace is full of leadership messages, but this one is a stand out." - Louie Giglio
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-230).
"Are you letting your lack of authority paralyze you? One of the greatest myths of leadership is that you must be in charge in order to lead. Great leaders don't buy it. Great leaders lead with or without the authority and learn to unleash their influence wherever they are. With practical wisdom and humor, Clay Scroggins will help you nurture your vision and cultivate influence, even when you lack authority in your organization. And he will free you to become the great leader you want to be so you can make a difference right where you are. Even when you're not in charge."-- Publisher's website.
The oddity of leadership -- Identity crisis -- Reclaim kibosh -- Lead yourself -- Choose positivity -- Think critically -- Reject passivity -- Challenging up -- Breaking down challenging up -- Your next chapter starts today.