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Today, get your copy of “Finish Line Leadership.”
Follow this link to order a copy:
I’m scheduling trips to various cities to unpack chapters of the book to inspire, encourage and lift up leaders who are tired and loosing hope, but want to take their leadership to the next level!
If that would be of interest to you, please let me know.
Some have ordered 20 copies or more directly from the publisher to get a 50% discount, They want to invest in leaders on their team and in their organizations. Here’s the link if you want to do that:
Here is what one reader said about the book:
“I loved this book for so many reasons. I’ve read his previous Leaders Who Last and Mistakes Leaders Make and was able to attend one of his leadership weekends at a local church in 2013. Every time I’ve encountered his work, I’ve been challenged, enlightened, and encouraged. This book is more of the same.
You won’t read this book and think, “I’ve never heard any of this before!”–Dave’s goal isn’t novelty, and therein lies the genius of what he does here. This is a brother who has gathered the best of what he’s learned over decades of following Jesus and working in ministry and telling us how to implement it in real life. These pages contain very little theory; it’s almost entirely practical.
When you combine concrete action steps with biblical wisdom and the perspective that can only be gained over many, many years of faithfulness…you get Finish Line Leadership. This is a book I’ll recommend and come back to again and again.”
Here’s some content from the chapter ~ ” It’s not all about the leader”
When it becomes all about the leader—the brand, the following, the books, the number of hits on their website, the money raised, the number of followers on social media, it’s just a matter of time until something really bad happens. There is an almost predictable process that takes place. In his book “See How the Mighty Fall,” Jim Collins speaks directly of companies when he says that an organization (or church) is often an extension of its leader(s). There are five stages to the process which are the titles to five of the chapters in the table of contents:
1. Hubris born of success
2. Undisciplined pursuit of more
3. Denial of risk and peril
4. Grasping for Salvation
5. Capitulation to irrelevance or Death
“It is not a pretty picture, to say the least. Often, the reason this process takes place is because the leader is not genuinely accountable to one or more people who can be a Nathan. People are flat-out afraid to speak truth to those in power, so the leader increasingly making it all about himself/herself gets away with it.”
“Hardly a month goes by that I don’t hear about another lead pastor who has resigned or been asked to step down for one reason or another. As I coach leaders around the country and in a few other countries, I hear about dysfunction among top leaders, which is causing a great deal of pain and lots of problems for staff and the church family in which these leaders serve. I can deeply resonate with Paul when he says, “And apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches” (2 Corinthians 11:28 ESV). I don’t believe Paul is speaking of an unbiblical anxiety that he refers to in Philippians 4:6, but more of a genuine concern that bothers him deeply. Since I spend so much of my time coaching and working with leaders in local churches, it is of great concern to me when I hear of churches where a top leader has voluntarily stepped down or has been asked to step down due to sin of some kind.”
It doesn’t have to continue to be this way. That’s why He led me to write, “Finish Line Leadership.” He wants YOU to finish well.
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