Modern Metaphors of Christian Leadership
Exploring Christian Leadership in a Contemporary Organizational Context
Editors: Henson, Joshua (Ed.)
Free Preview- Offers 16 metaphors for leadership
- Provides 5-12 principles for each metaphor relating to Christian leadership in organizations
- Expands biblical metaphors to explore metaphors used in contemporary society
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- About this book
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This book explores contemporary metaphors of leadership from a biblical or church historical perspective. It seeks to understand the cultural, social, and organizational metaphors from the Bible and the implications for contemporary organizations. Addressing issues such as communication, mentorship, administration, motivation, change management, education, and coaching, the authors explore concepts related to both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. This book will be a valuable addition to the leadership literature in showing how biblical leadership principles can be used in contemporary organizations.
- About the authors
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Joshua Henson is Adjunct Professor in the School of Business & Leadership at Regent University, USA. He serves as the Editor of the Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership and published the collaborative work Evaluating Employee Performance through Christian Virtues.
- Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Christian Leaders as Community Organizers: Utilizing the Power Above, Within, and Around Us
Pages 1-20
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Christian Leaders as Agents of Change: A Biblical Perspective with Practical Implications
Pages 21-40
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Christian Leaders as Administrators: Exemplifying Leadership as an Outgrowth of Collaboration
Pages 41-63
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Christian Leaders as Motivators: Prophetic Vision in Leaders
Pages 65-77
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Christian Leaders as Managers: Facilitating Extraordinary Outcomes Through Stewardship
Pages 79-94
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Modern Metaphors of Christian Leadership
- Book Subtitle
- Exploring Christian Leadership in a Contemporary Organizational Context
- Editors
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- Joshua Henson
- Series Title
- Christian Faith Perspectives in Leadership and Business
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-36580-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-36580-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-36579-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-36582-0
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIX, 314
- Number of Illustrations
- 2 b/w illustrations
- Topics
