The Shaping of an Effective Leader

by Gayle D. Beebe

Publisher:

IVP

, 2011

Overview

Leadership is both an art and a science.

We may be tempted to look for a sure-fire formula, but the reality is quite different: effective leaders are exceptional generalists rather than narrow specialists. The best leaders take what the best business experts have to offer, and apply that based on their own abilities, experience and judgment. And these leaders seek real-life mentors and learn from them.

Gayle Beebe, who has spent over a decade as a college president, had the opportunity to study with Peter Drucker, the father of modern management and the author of The Effective Executive. Drawing on Drucker’s influence as well as his own years of experiences as a pastor, administrator and president, Beebe has developed a pyramid of leadership principles. The combination of these defines a leader of influence and integrity.

In these pages you’ll also meet some of Beebe’s other mentors: Steve Sample of USC, Harold A. “Red” Poling of Ford Motor Company, Richard Foster of Renovaré, David McKenna of Asbury Seminary and Bob Emmons of SmartFinal.

In a day of relentless self-direction, strong leaders have a critical role. With this book you can discover what it takes to be effective in your sphere of influence.

Key Features

• Shows that effective leaders are exceptional generalists.
• Develops a pyramid of leadership principles.
• Exposes strong leaders have a critical role.

Praise for The Shaping of an Effective Leader

Every person who serves in leadership or aspires to needs to read this book.... This book instructs without being pedantic, inspires without being clichéd and challenges without being arrogant. It reminds us that leadership is not only an art; it is a practice to be nurtured, cultivated and honed over a lifetime. Because the book frames the leadership experience in such helpful and formative ways, someone aspiring for insight born of experience and rigorous thinking will find a reservoir of valuable wisdom.

--Dr. Steve Moore, executive director and CEO, The M. J. Murdock Trust

This book is for all individuals, organizations, schools and businesses, profit and nonprofit. During this time when leadership in political and industrial arenas has deteriorated, Beebe’s book shows and develops the importance of maintaining clear convictions as we lead. The ‘pyramid’ of conditions for developing strong leadership makes it easy to discern where and how one is starting and where one is going.

--Leslie Ridley-Tree, president and CEO, Pacific Air Industries

This is not just another book on leadership. It is written by an effective leader who has achieved meaningful results in the organizations he has led. He shares with us lessons and principles he has learned from the mentoring relationships he had with Peter Drucker and other important thought leaders. It was Drucker who reminded us that a leader has only one choice to make--to lead or mislead. Gayle Beebe has chosen to lead. Read and learn from his wisdom and experience.

--C. William Pollard, chairman emeritus, ServiceMaster

Product Details

• Title: The Shaping of an Effective Leader: Eight Formative Principles of Leadership
• Author: Gayle D. Beebe
• Publisher: IVP
• Print Publication Date: 2011
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Pages: 208
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• ISBNs: 9780830869572, 9780830838202, 0830838201, 0830869573
• Resource ID: LLS:9780830869572
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-05-29T21:51:20Z

About Gayle D. Beebe

Gayle D. Beebe (Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University) is president of Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California, and past president of Spring Arbor University in Spring Arbor, Michigan. He served as one of the general editors for The Renovaré Spiritual Formation Bible. He is also author of The Interpretive Role of the Religious Community in Friedrich Schleiermacher and Josiah Royce and coeditor of Keeping the Concept in the Social and Natural Sciences; Keeping the Concept in the Philosophical, Practical and Productive Arts; A Concept to Keep; and Religion and Its Relevance in Post-Modernism.