Tempered Resilience: How Leaders Are Formed in the Crucible of Change
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Tod Bolsinger, author of Canoeing the Mountains, is uniquely positioned to explore the qualities of adaptive leadership in contexts ranging from churches to nonprofit organizations. He deftly examines both the external challenges we face and the internal resistance that holds us back. Bolsinger writes: “To temper describes the process of heating, holding, hammering, cooling, and reheating that adds stress to raw iron until it becomes a glistening knife blade or chisel tip.” When reflection and relationships are combined into a life of deliberate practice, leaders become both stronger and more flexible. As a result, these resilient leaders are able to offer greater wisdom and skill to the organizations they serve.
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- Explores the qualities of adaptive leadership.
- Compares the growth we experience through trials.
- Cuts to the core of why so many gifted leaders struggle in periods of transition.
Tod Bolsinger eloquently compares the growth we experience through trials and the crucible of leadership experienced in the midst of organizational change. The strong pull of historical inertia too easily negates forward progress in far too many ministries. Tod’s insightful understanding of leadership effectiveness skillfully delves into the core character traits necessary for a leader to prevail through both the rejection of and resistance to transformation. As a thoughtful, innovative leader, Tod’s acumen makes Tempered Resilience a critical read for every leader seeking to navigate an organization through an ever-changing environment.
--Santiago “Jimmy” Mellado, president and CEO of Compassion International
In Tempered Resilience, Tod Bolsinger cuts to the core of why so many gifted leaders struggle in periods of transition and how leaders can position themselves to thrive amid the chaos of change. Full of scholarly analysis and personal anecdotes, this book will both encourage your soul and challenge you to embrace the extensive life transformation that accompanies leadership.
--Linda A. Livingstone, president of Baylor University
Once again Tod Bolsinger has written a book for our times. With his incredible capacity for storytelling that allows principles to shine, in Tempered Resilience Bolsinger has spelled out a pathway for leadership and leadership development for this era of unprecedented change. This will become a classic that I’ll refer to over and over again.
--Jim Herrington, cofounder of The Leader's Journey: Coaching for Wholehearted Leadership
- Title: Tempered Resilience: How Leaders Are Formed in the Crucible of Change
- Author: Tod Bolsinger
- Publisher: IVP
- Print Publication Date: 2020
- Logos Release Date: 2020
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Change–Religious aspects–Christianity; Christian leadership; Leadership–Religious aspects–Christianity; Resilience (Personality trait)–Religious aspects–Christianity
- ISBNs: 9780830841653, 0830841644, 9780830841646, 0830841652
- Resource ID: LLS:9780830841653
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-06T20:48:15Z
Tod Bolsinger (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) is a speaker, executive coach, former pastor, and author who serves as associate professor of leadership formation and senior fellow for the De Pree Center for Leadership at Fuller Seminary. His books include the Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year in Pastoral Leadership, Canoeing the Mountains, and the Christianity Today Award of Merit recipient, It Takes a Church to Raise a Christian.