Steward Leadership in the Nonprofit Organization
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Most approaches to nonprofit organizational leadership are borrowed from the for-profit sector. But these models are often inadequate to address the issues nonprofit leaders face. We need a new framework for nonprofit management that is rooted in historical precedent and biblical principles yet is also appropriate for the nonprofit context.
Nonprofit consultant and researcher Kent Wilson presents a comprehensive model for steward leadership, in which leaders act as stewards or trustees, never as owners. Scripture and history give concrete examples of stewards who manage resources on behalf of others for the good of others. Wilson applies this classical understanding of the steward to modern organizational management, defining and developing steward leadership as an alternative to its cousin, servant leadership.
Steward leadership offers great hope for the transformation and effectiveness of nonprofit leadership for stakeholders, board members, executive directors and staff members. Designed by a nonprofit leader for nonprofit leaders, this fresh approach to leadership gives you a new focus to lead your organization with excellence.
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- Presents a comprehensive model for steward leadership.
- Applies this classical understanding of the steward to modern organizational management.
- Uncovers a fresh perspective on leadership.
Kent Wilson provides a fresh look at steward leadership through the eyes of an experienced nonprofit CEO and the lens of a biblical worldview. Steward Leadership in the Nonprofit Organization is a thoughtful developmental guide for any leader.
--Al Lopus, president and cofounder, Best Christian Workplaces Institute
When God interrupted my life as a church pastor and called me to found and lead a nonprofit organization ten years ago, I really could have used this book. Rather than borrowing spiritual concepts to buttress popular leadership theory, Kent Wilson mines Scripture and uncovers a fresh perspective on leadership—the leader as steward. This is the basic primer every Christian executive and pastor needs to read, digest, and read again!
--Mike Johnson, founder and president, Ascending Leaders
An essential read for anyone involved or interested in leadership. From his practical experience and Christian reflection, Kent Wilson uncovers the foundational importance of the biblical metaphor of stewardship, develops the contribution of earlier writers on the subject, from Peter Block to Scott Rodin, and applies his findings to the work of nonprofit organizations. On the way he provides case studies of steward leadership in practice, examines the relationship between steward and servant leadership models, and clarifies the roles of board, executive and staff members. Overall, a major contribution.
--Robert Banks, Centre for the History of Christian Thought Experience, Macquarie University, Sydney
- Title: Steward Leadership in the Nonprofit Organization
- Author: Kent R. Wilson
- Publisher: IVP
- Print Publication Date: 2016
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Pages: 221
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Christian leadership; Church management; Church trustees; RELIGION–Christian Church–Administration
- ISBNs: 9780830893409, 0830844678, 9780830844678, 0830893407
- Resource ID: LLS:9780830893409
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-06T21:08:32Z
Kent R. Wilson (d. 2017) was a business practitioner and leadership specialist. He was the cofounder of Steward Leadership Initiative and served as the national program director for Christian Leadership Alliance's Leader2Leader program. After running for-profit and nonprofit companies for thirty years, Wilson mentored and coached CEOs as an executive coach with Vistage International and the Nonprofit Leadership Exchange in Colorado Springs. He is a contributor to the NIV Stewardship Study Bible and taught entrepreneurial business skills internationally as a volunteer trainer for three international business-as-mission organizations.