The Ways of the Leader: Four Practices to Bring People Together and Break New Ground
Ebook
Leaders: Are you feeling overwhelmed in this post-pandemic world? The one-size-fits-all approaches no longer work. You need creative strategies based on godly wisdom that bring people together and break new ground.
In The Ways of the Leader, Bill Mowry unpacks four competencies for everyday leaders in churches, ministries, communities, and businesses. To generate wisdom as a leader, you must become a
- lifelong learner who views your life and leadership as God’s classroom for discovery;
- collaborator who engages people to explore, create, and implement new approaches;
- cultural detective who examines assumptions and values where you lead and live; and
- ministry innovator who discovers solutions that are crafted to the specific needs of your community.
Rise up against the chaos of today as you nurture the wisdom to choose what is good (what brings life and nourishes people) and right (what is just and fair) and impact those right where you are with practical solutions.
Bill understands the cultural landscape for leaders in a fast-paced, unpredictable, and ever-changing environment. The practical guidance and foundational principles in this book are essential for building communities with greater impact and effectiveness in today’s world.
Typically, resources on leadership are about achieving better performance, effectiveness, and outcomes. But this book is refreshingly different: It focuses on what the leader must become to wisely impact the cultures they serve in practical and transformative ways. This is the kind of leader that doesn’t crash and burn. Bill Mowry’s writing is insightful yet easy to understand. He brings clarity and practicality to the question of how to lead from ordinary life assignments for extraordinary influence and impact. His examples bring clarity combined with exercises to maximize learning. Bill’s writing style draws the reader in—inviting the reader to walk the pathway that leads to a relationally wise, emotionally intelligent, and spiritually astute leader.
This world needs leaders, men and women of courage and character with learners’ hearts. How can we grow as people—as individuals and in our families, workplaces, and places of worship—who influence with cultural wisdom and innovation? This is the beauty and power of Bill’s writing. He provides practical and concrete tools that can be practiced in our everyday lives. A much-needed resource in our world filled with polarization, silos, and independence.
Once again, Bill Mowry has given us an excellent book that is steeped in wisdom, refined by years of ministry experience, and inviting in tone. He builds a sturdy bridge from biblical principles to life practices as he guides leaders toward the competencies they need to respond to the rapidly changing challenges in our culture today. I highly recommend it!
In these changing, challenging times for church leaders comes a winsome book on gaining what we most need: wisdom. In The Ways of The Leader, Bill Mowry offers ministry leaders a resource on how to discern the wisest path forward through collegial learning, collaboration, contextual understanding, and innovative practices. This book is filled with anecdotes and quotes that will keep you engaged and reflecting. I look forward to using it with my team to gain the depth of insight we need to know how to reach our city. There are no silver bullets, no simple prescriptions for our times. We need to walk the way of wisdom and let God light our path. Thank you, Bill, for guiding us down that road in such a clear manner! A must-read for all leaders!
This new book of Bill’s is so practical, full of hope, and rich with examples. Biblical and relevant principles are supported with a plethora of tools and applications that can make the way of wisdom a reality for the everyday disciple as well as the leader. The entire book is very helpful, but I especially love the last chapter on the choices leaders face, so pertinent to our culture and time—it’s a gem!
Immensely practical! This book offers tools and principles that leaders can immediately put into practice, no matter their ministry or experience.
The Ways of the Leader is so engagingly simple that it removes leadership from the realm of the elite and places it within reach of anyone pursuing the way of wisdom. What is the way of wisdom? Don’t worry, Bill clarifies and makes that beautifully tangible also. In The Ways of the Alongsider, Bill puts disciplemaking back into the hands of the everyday Christ follower. In The Ways of the Leader, he makes key principles of leadership equally accessible for us all.
Bill has delivered a wise and winsome road map for everyday leaders to follow with confidence and hope as we move toward greater innovation and impact in the face of accelerating change. I have known Bill for four decades. He is a thinking practitioner who models these principles. Every leader I know would benefit greatly from the journey Bill invites us on in this excellent book. Well done!
The Ways of the Leader is timely, powerful, and a must-read for leaders of all ages. Leaders everywhere are facing the need to navigate the fastballs of change that often come with cultural and generational challenges. Bill reminds us all that successful (fruitful) leaders are on a path of continual learning and use everyday life as a classroom to live and lead like Jesus. The application of this wisdom becomes the key to their success and is a distance marker of being a disciple of Jesus.
Christian leaders today are stepping into the unknown—into an unexplored country that exhibits hopelessness in ways that compound the challenges of leadership. Bill Mowry has given these leaders a biblically grounded set of tools which will free them from the distractions and inertia of “what worked in the past.” For those who are called to bring hope to hopeless situations, he illuminates essential tools of personal and cultural wisdom, learning, collaboration, and innovation to prepare them for God-glorifying, Christ-following leadership. You won’t find simplistic answers or formulas here. This book is a practical, strategic collection of tools to apply to your unique contexts. If you sense you are stepping into the unknown, wondering how to lead others in a Christ-centered exploration, this book is for you.
Bill has always excelled at being a skilled mentor and broad-range thinker around how leaders can grow in both character and vision. With its consistent bent toward lifelong learning and openness to exploration and its readiness to serve and strengthen others, The Ways of the Leader reflects his life’s work, a remarkable combination of spiritual depth and intellectual curiosity. Bill’s focus on journey over destination provides freedom to the reader, allowing application across a range of situations and leadership considerations. Truly wisdom and love are the guides through an ever-changing landscape.
The Ways of the Leader is an insightful look at the current need for new leaders in a time of rapid sociocultural change. This isn’t the typical book on leadership that tells you how to become a megastar. Bill describes leadership as the application of the principles of godly wisdom. This isn’t a how-to book but a tool kit that will assist you to be the leader that God has designed you to be where he has placed you.
This book is the cure for “quick fix” formulas! And it couldn’t be any timelier. Prescriptions won’t work in the polarizing time we are in. A seasoned leader like Bill Mowry knows there is only one way through the chaos of our time. It’s not a solution from an expert in another context. You will need to grow the deeper ways of wisdom that can help you navigate the uncharted terrain of your particular place and time. I highly recommend you get your people together and take a very deep dive into The Ways of the Leader.
- Title: The Ways of the Leader: Four Practices to Bring People Together and Break New Ground
- Author: Bill Mowry
- Publisher: NavPress
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781641586719, 9781641586696, 1641586699, 1641586710
- Resource ID: LLS:9781641586719
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-09-30T09:35:47Z