Strategic Leadership for a Change: Facing our Losses, Finding Our Future
If you've ever wondered why your great new plans meet resistance and fail, you should read this book. Grounded in the author's real experience with congregations and their leaders, it offers significant insight into the implementation of change and how, as leaders, we can help congregational members and church systems accept and even embrace change. --Diana J. Barber, Associate Synod Executive for Leadership Development, Synod of Lakes and Prairies, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)Ken McFayden explores what it means to lead congregations through change and conflict in a manner consistent with Christian discipleship. This is a book I have waited for years to share with students, pastors, and lay leaders. The author reminds us that while we live in anxious times, and anxious people seldom make good decisions, the most powerful antidote to anxiety is good leadership. --Michael Jinkins, Dean and Professor of Pastoral Theology, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, and author ofTransformational MinistryandThe Character of LeadershipKen knows that leadership is costly, even courageous. Leadership is a form of discipleship. Fear, resistance, and weariness are part of a leader's life; so are creativity, imagination, and a "bag of tricks" to strengthen congregations that yearn for, yet resist, change, transformational change that makes more effective witnesses. --Art Ross, Pastor, White Memorial Presbyterian Church, Raleigh, North Carolina