Lead Like It Matters to God – Values–Driven Leadership in a Success–Driven World

Richard Stearns (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2021
Inter-Varsity Press,US (Verlag)
978-0-8308-4730-3 (ISBN)

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Sharing the principles he has learned over a remarkable corporate and ministry career, Richard Stearns offers seventeen crucial values that transform leaders and their organizations. When leaders embody these ideals, they not only improve their witness for Christ, they shape institutions, influence culture, and create healthy workplaces where people can flourish.

Outcomes Conference Book of the Year

Christian Book Award Finalist
Richard Stearns is a leader who has been tested as a CEO in both secular companies and also as the head of one of the world’s largest Christian ministries. After stints as CEO of Parker Brothers and then Lenox, Stearns accepted the invitation to leave his corporate career to become the president of World Vision US, where he became the longest serving president in their seventy-year history. During his tenure there he implemented corporate best practices, lowering overheads while tripling revenues. His leadership in calling the American church to respond to some of the greatest crises of our time, notably the HIV and AIDS pandemic, and the global refugee crisis, challenged Christians to embrace a bold vision for compassion, mercy, and justice.
In Lead Like It Matters to God, Stearns shares the leadership principles he has learned over the course of his remarkable career. As a leader who has navigated both secular and sacred spaces, Stearns claims that the values Christian leaders embrace in their workplaces are actually more important than the results they achieve—that God is more concerned about a leader's character than a leader's success. With wisdom, wit, and biblical teaching, Stearns shares captivating stories of his life journey and unpacks seventeen crucial values that can transform leaders and their organizations. When leaders embody values such as integrity, courage, excellence, forgiveness, humility, surrender, balance, generosity, perseverance, love, and encouragement, they not only improve their witness for Christ, they also shape institutions, influence culture, improve team performance, and create healthy workplaces where people can flourish.
Through this book, Stearns will inspire a new generation of Christian leaders to boldly take their values into their workplaces to tangibly demonstrate the character of Christ, the love of Christ, and the truth of Christ as they live out their faith in full view of others.

Richard Stearns is president emeritus of World Vision US, where he served as president for twenty years, traveling more than three million miles as an advocate for the world's poor. Before leading the Christian relief and development organization, he was a corporate CEO at both Parker Brothers and Lenox. His bestselling book The Hole in Our Gospel was named the 2010 Christian Book of the Year. Among the honors Stearns received for his humanitarian service are five honorary doctoral degrees, the Julia Vadala Taft Outstanding Leadership Award from InterAction, and the Christian Leadership Alliance's highest honor. Rich and his wife, Reneé, have five adult children and six grandchildren, and live in Bellevue, Washington.

Introduction

1. Leadership Changes the World: Joining the Revolution

2. The Plans I Have For You: A Bit of Autobiography

3. Surrender: Not My Will but Thy Will

4. Sacrifice: Career Suicide

5. Trust: He's Got This

6. Excellence: It's How You Play the Game

7. Love: What's Love Got to Do With It?

8. Humility: The Executive Toilet

9. Integrity: Who You Are When No One Is Watching

10. Vision: Seeing a Better Tomorrow

11. Courage: Do Not Be Afraid

12. Generosity (Greedlessness): The Toxicity of Money

13. Forgiveness: I'm Sorry

14. Self-Awareness: Know Thyself

15. Balance: All Work and No Play

16. Humor: If We Don't Laugh, We'll Cry

17. Encouragement: Well Done, Good and Faithful Servant

18. Perseverance: Hang in There

19. Listening: Bees Do It

20. Taking God to Work

Postscript

Acknowledgments

Notes

Erscheinungsdatum	09.03.2021
Verlagsort	Illinois
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 237 mm
Gewicht	498 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Bewerbung / Karriere
	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10	0-8308-4730-8 / 0830847308
ISBN-13	978-0-8308-4730-3 / 9780830847303
Zustand	Neuware