Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth
Do you want to be a better leader? Raise the threshold of your pain. Do you want your church to grow or your business to reach higher goals? Reluctance to face pain is your greatest limitation. There is no growth without change, no change without loss, and no loss without pain. Bottom line: if you're not hurting, you're not leading.
But this book is not a theological treatise on pain. Rather in Leadership Pain Samuel Chand—best-selling author recognized as "the leader's leader"—provides a concrete, practical understanding of the pain we experience to help us interpret pain more accurately and learn the lessons God has in it for us.
Chand is ruthlessly honest and highly practical as he examines the principles and practices that make our pain a means of fulfilling God's divine purposes for our churches, communities, and us. These features are included in this leadership treasure trove:
POWERFUL, personal stories from some of the finest leaders in the world, such as Craig Groeschel, Benny Perez, Mike Kai, Lisa Bevere, Mark Chironna, Dale Bronner, Philip Wagner, Michael Pitts, and numerous others
REVEALING INSIGHTS into the growth that occurs through pain in leadership roles
PRACTICAL EXERCISES to help you apply the valuable principles you are learning
Top Highlights
“They may have found someone who could hold it if they went up to twenty feet, but no farther. If they’re unwilling to make changes in the people holding the ladder, they’ll never climb higher. Never. Leaders can do one of three things with those who hold their ladders: retain them because they’re effective, release them because they aren’t, or reassign and retrain them to hold someone else’s ladder.” (source)
“The exhaustion caused by constantly loving, giving, serving, and sacrificing—especially coupled with feeling alone, resentful, and hurt—erodes a Christian leader’s ability to cope with life. Some call it compassion fatigue and compare it with combat fatigue.” (source)
“The Scriptures state—clearly and often—that enduring pain is one of the ways, perhaps the main way, God” (source)
“pain isn’t the enemy. The inability or unwillingness to face pain is a far greater danger.” (source)
Product Details
- Title : Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth
- Author: Chand, Samuel
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Publication Date: 2015
- ISBN: 9780718031619