Leadership Journal Review of Intuitive Leadership
Former seminary classmate and Leadership Journal columnist Angie Ward has reviewed Intuitive Leadership: Embracing a Paradigm of Narrative, Metaphor, and Chaos in the most recent issue of said magazine. Kind of...
Actually what Ward does is compare my book to another recently published leadership book called Making Vision Stick by Andy Stanley, pastor of North Point, what Ward describes as a mega-church near Atlanta.
It is a pretty interesting review of both books and she does it by comparing and contrasting what she sees as two very different approaches towards church and leadership. Here is a sample:
"The differences between Keel and Stanley go beyond style, however. They have very different views of the leader's role. For Stanley, the leader is central to a church's vision, responsible for creating it, communicating it, and maintaining it. 'When a leader blames the follower for not following, the leader has ceased to lead,' he writes. Keel, by contrast, presents a decentralized approach in which direction is discovered from within the community. In this setting, the leader's primary role is that of environmentalist, not program director; one of asking questions, not giving answers. 'Such a move requires that you trust the people with whom you dialogue enough to listen to what they have to say.'"
It's a short review but I feel like Ward has interact and understood what I am getting at with my book. I can't speak to her review of Stanley's book, but by her description it sounds interesting and worth reading.
In writing a book (or preaching a sermon) I am not so invested in whether or not someone agrees with me. What I desperately hope, however, is that they interact with what I have said. It makes me crazy to read something when it becomes clear that someone has not understood or taken the time to truly process what is being proposed. Thus I am grateful when Ward reports and then summarizes:
"Both books are worth reading, but they have very different objectives. Keel wants to change how leaders think. He seeks to convince readers of the need for a massive shift in how leadership looks. Stanley keeps the goal simple: to make vision stick.Taken together, the two books with their divergent perspectives, provide a full and complementary picture of effective leadership today. That's some real brain power."
Christianity Today has posted the review online:
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