Next Generation Leader: 5 Essentials for Those Who Will Shape the Future - Hardcover

Stanley, Andy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1590525396 ISBN 13: 9781590525395

Verlag: Multnomah, 2006

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Follow Your Own Lead!

The Next Generation Leader has been challenging young Christians eager to learn, grow, and lead in ministry or in the marketplace since its original release in 2003. Now with an all-new look, this repackaged version continues to advance the mission of the first release. Mentoring young leaders as they face the unique issues of a changing world has been pastor and bestselling author Andy Stanley’s passion for more than a decade. Here he shares material from his leadership training sessions, developed to address essential leadership qualities such as character, clarity, courage, and competency. This is the perfect guide for any new leader—or for the mentor of a future leader!

Straight Talk to Tomorrow’s Leaders

Five characteristics mark the man or woman who will shape the future.
-Courage
-Clarity
-Competence
-Coachability
-Character

Drawing on two decades of experience mentoring a rising generation, seasoned visionary Andy Stanley shows how to:
-Discover and play to your strengths
-Harness your fears
-Leverage uncertainty
-Enlist a leadership coach
-Maintain moral authority

“Capable men and women will eventually catch, pass, and replace the current generation of leaders,” says Stanley. “Embracing these essentials, you will not only excel in your personal leadership, but also ensure a no-regrets experience for those who choose to follow you.”

“ Andy Stanley ’s The Next Generation Leader will equip the messengers to stand a little taller with a vision of hope and promise as they engraft these timeless principles into their daily lives.”
—Dan T. Cathy, president and CEO, Chick-Fil-A Corporation

“It’s obvious that what Andy Stanley has to say in The Next Generation Leader comes straight from the gut of someone who is in the leadership game and is winning at it.”
—Bill Hybels, senior pastor, Willow Creek Community Church

“ Andy Stanley offers a fresh perspective on ageless truths that will be of enormous benefit to today’s leaders and to future generations.”
—Patrick S. Flood, chairman and CEO, HomeBanc Mortgage Corporation

Story Behind the Book

Andy Stanley, the senior pastor of the North Point Ministries campuses with a cumulative congregation of more than twenty thousand, admits he has one single, core passion. He lives to train and mentor young leaders to be the best they can be! He sees the “next gen” need for quality Christian resources on leadership and wrote this book entrenched in leadership himself, desiring to guide the up-and-coming young men and women who will shape our future.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Communicator, author, and pastor, Andy Stanley founded Atlanta-based North Point Ministries in 1995. Today, NPM is comprised of six churches in the Atlanta area and a network of ninety churches around the globe collectively serving nearly 185,000 people weekly. As host of Your Move with Andy Stanley, with over seven million messages consumed each month through television and podcasts, and author of more than twenty books, including The New Rules for Love, Sex & Dating, Ask It, How to Be Rich, Deep & Wide, Visioneering, and Next Generation Leader, he is considered one of the most influential pastors in America. Andy and his wife, Sandra, have three grown children and live near Atlanta.

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THE NEXT GENERATION LEADER
published by Multnomah Books
© 2003 by Andy Stanley
International Standard Book Number: 978-1-59052-539-5
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Stanley, Andy.
The next generation leader / Andy Stanley. p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 1-59052-046-7 (hardback) ISBN 1-59052-232-X
1. Christian leadership. I. Title. BV652.1 .S69 2003
253--dc21                                                  2002014699
09 10—20 19 18 17 16 15

 
 
 
 
 
 
CONTENTS
 
 
Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
 
SECTION  1:
COMPETENCE—DO  LESS,  ACCOMPLISH  MORE
 
1. You Are Doing Too Much!  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
2. Doing the Right Things  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
3. Finding Your Groove . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
 
SECTION  2:
COURAGE—COURAGE  EST ABLISHES  LEADERSHIP
 
4. First In  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
5. Just a Stone’s Throw Away . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
6. Three Expressions of Courage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
 
SECTION  3:
CLARITY—UNCERT A INTY  DEMANDS  CLARITY
 
7. Leading in the Shadow of Uncertainty . . . . . . . . . 79
8. I’ll Tell You When We Get There  . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
9. Managing Your Uncertainty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
 
SECTION  4:
COACHING—COACHING  ENABLES A  LEADER TO  GO  F A RTHER,  F A STER
10. Listening, Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
11. The King Who Wouldn’t Listen  . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
12. What Coaches Do . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
 
SECTION  5:
CHARACTER—CHARACTER DETERMINES THE  LEADER’S  LEGACY
13. A Nonessential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
14. The King Who Followed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
15. The Leader Worth Following . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Epilogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Notes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

 
 
 
  
SECTION       ONE
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
COMPETENCE
DO  LESS,  ACCOMPLISH  MORE

 
 
 
 
 
 
Chapter One
 
 
 
 
 
YOU ARE DOING TOO MUCH!
 
 
The secret of concentration is elimination.
 
[Dr. Howard Hendricks]
 
 
 
It  is both  natural and necessary for young leaders to try to prove themselves by doing everything themselves. It is natural because, as a leader, you want to set the pace even as you demonstrate that nothing is beneath you. It is necessary because most of the time nobody is around to help. But what may initially be natural and necessary will ultimately limit your effectiveness.
Perhaps the two best-kept secrets of leadership are these:
 
1.  The less you do, the more you accomplish.
 
2.  The less you do, the more you enable others to accomplish.
 
As a young leader, my biggest mistake was allowing my time to be eaten up with things outside my core competen- cies. I devoted an inordinate amount of my first seven years in ministry to things I was not good at—things I would never be good at. At the same time, I invested little energy in developing my strengths.
I am a good communicator. I am not a good manager.
 
I am a good visioncaster. I am not good at follow-up. I know how to prepare a message. I am not good at planning an event.
And yet early on I did nothing to hone my communica- tion skills. Instead, I spent a great deal of time trying to become a better manager and a better event planner. When it came to communication, I would often wing it because the time I should have used to prepare talks had been con- sumed by other things. And this was the one area in which I could wing it.
The problem was that somewhere along the way I had bought into the myth that a good leader has to be good at everything. So I operated under the assumption that I had to upgrade my weaknesses into strengths. After all, who would follow a leader who wasn’t well-rounded?
 
 
After  graduate school I went to work for my dad. As a minister to students my primary responsibilities revolved around developing a strategy for involving junior high and high school students in the life of the church.
The fact that this was my first job opportunity after grad school, combined with the reality that I was working for my dad, sent me into the workforce determined to succeed. I felt the need to prove myself by working harder than every- one else around me. I came in early and went home late. I was in constant motion.
But I did not work smart. The majority of my time was devoted to tasks I was not good at. I was eight years into my career before I realized that my real value to our organiza- tion lay within the context of my giftedness, not the number of hours I worked.
From that point forward I began looking for ways to redefine my job description according to what I was good at, rather than simply what I was willing to do. I discovered that there were some balls I had no business juggling. When I finally mustered the courage to let ’em fall to the floor and roll over in the corner, I began to excel in juggling the two or three balls I was created to keep in the air in the first place.
My success attracted others who were committed to the same cause. While we shared the same passion for students, our skill-sets were different. It wasn’t long before they began picking up the stray balls I had let fall. The responsibilities I was reluctant to relinquish turned out to be opportunities...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Multnomah
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1590525396
• ISBN 13: 9781590525395
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176
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