ReLaunch: How to Stage an Organizational Comeback

by Mark Rutland

Publisher:

David C Cook

, 2013

Overview

A church in deep debt with attendance down by the thousands. A college that had lapsed into a coma, its buildings in shambles, its faculty demoralized, its enrollment at rock bottom. A university facing lawsuits, scandal, and near-bankruptcy. Each situation involved different financial needs, different lost dreams, different personal wounds. But they each had one thing in common: each needed a leader who could restore hope, vision, and viability.

 

Dr. Mark Rutland has led three institutional turnarounds over the past twenty-five years. He has seen organizations that were dying come to new life. And he knows the steps you need to take right now. How do you know what to do to help your church or organization make it, even when circumstances and personnel challenges seem too much to handle? Here are the answers. As Dr. Rutland writes in this New York Times bestseller, the true leader can say, “This book is for the rugged visionaries who see in the wreckage a hope for the future and are willing to pay the price for a relaunch.”

Contents

Top Highlights

“Here is that seed: leadership, and particularly turnaround leadership, is about defining a dream and tethering all aspects of the organization to it. Some dream well. Some define well. Others may tether well or excel at organizing. The art, though—the great craft of leading others—is the connection between the dream, its proclamation, and making the dream the driving force of everything that is done.” (source)

“It is this: if a principle of leadership is true, it is true for every kind of leadership.” (source)

“Her answer has never left me. She said, ‘I never worry about how long we stay in one place as long as when I leave, the flower beds are in better shape than when I got there.’ That’s turnaround leadership in a nutshell. You are not thinking primarily of your own experience. You are not letting your past keep you from your task. You simply make things better for those who come next. Your goal is to leave the flower beds in better shape than you found them.” (source)

“Broadly speaking, leadership is visionary while management is about logistics. Leaders and managers are both vital to the success of an organization. Servant-leaders need servant-managers, and vice versa.” (source)

“The success I’ve had has come from being bold in the pursuit of a vision, implementing a plan, learning from my mistakes, and understanding what it takes to summon the best in people—not from just sitting around and hoping for a miracle.” (source)

Product Details

• Title : ReLaunch: How to Stage an Organizational Comeback
• Author: Rutland, Mark
• Publisher: David C Cook
• Publication Date: 2013
• ISBN: 9780781409599

About Mark Rutland

Mark Rutland, PhD, is a New York Times best selling author and columnist for Ministry Today magazine. He is president of Global Servants and the National Institute of Christian Leadership, having served previously as the pastor of a mega-church and president of two universities. Rutland and his wife, Alison, have been married and in ministry together for more than fifty years. They have three children and nine grandchildren. Through their ministry Global Servants the Rutlands established House of Grace home for tribal girls in Chiang Rai, Thailand to protect little girls from sex trafficking. Since 1986 House of Grace has been “saving little girls for big destinies.” Its work in West Africa, largely in remote villages, has built churches and village hygiene services in five countries. For speaking appointments Rutland is represented by Premiere Speakers Bureau.