Evaluating Leadership: A Model for Missiological Assessment of Leadership Theory and Practice
Ebook
Leadership is vital, but how do you know which leadership theory or practice is right for you? How should you go about assessing the quality of a leadership practice? How can you evaluate leadership ideas to ensure that they line up with Scripture? How can you assess a leadership model and know it will work in your ministry setting?
Evaluating Leadership provides a solution to these problems. It introduces the Leadership Assessment Matrix, which helps you assess whether a leadership theory, principle, or practice is suitable for your team and your specific context.
Drawing on extensive experience and research, Evaluating Leadership delves deep into the problem, explains the model, and demonstrates how it can be applied. If you have ever had questions about how to evaluate leadership ideas or practices, this book is the book for you.
“In Evaluating Leadership, J. Keith McKinley does us a great service by providing a robust example of evaluating leadership theory for missiological practice. Exposing readers to a thorough overview of both transformational leadership and essential dimensions of culture, McKinley models for us a systematic approach to evaluation. It is a gift to leadership researchers and practitioners alike.”
—Justin A. Irving, professor of Christian leadership, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
“In Evaluating Leadership, J. Keith McKinley gives us a framework for evaluating leadership principles through the Leadership Assessment Matrix. The thirty questions in the second appendix are very valuable, leading the reader through a process of evaluating leadership theory or practice for the biblical, theological, cultural, and philosophical value they bring to the leader. Leadership books are one of my favorite genres of nonfiction, and this is a welcome addition to my library.”
—Todd Lafferty, EVP/COO, International Mission Board
“Leadership is essential, and Evaluating Leadership by J. Keith McKinley is a timely resource for Christian leaders. McKinley is a scholar-practitioner who brings more than twenty years of missionary leadership experience to this important conversation. I encourage leaders to read this book and implement these principles in their ministry and context.”
—Paul Akin, provost, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
“J. Keith McKinley has written a magnificent book about leadership in missions. McKinley’s experience as an MK, military man, missionary, mission leader, and scholar has informed every part of it. Missions is a challenging endeavor that involves a multifaceted task done within a complicated cultural context. This book should bless anyone involved in that task, but also many who face other challenging tasks in the increasingly complicated cultural context of our modern world.”
—Don Dent, senior professor of world missions, Gateway Seminary
- Title: Evaluating Leadership: A Model for Missiological Assessment of Leadership Theory and Practice
- Author: J. Keith McKinley
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Print Publication Date: 2024
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666770261, 9781666770254, 1666770256, 9781666770247, 1666770248, 1666770264
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666770261
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-01T01:06:06Z
J. Keith McKinley is associate professor of Christian missions at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY. He has over twenty years of leadership and missionary experience in Southeast Asia.