Top Leadership Books

Bill Hull The Disciple-Making Pastor (Old Tappan, N.J.: Revell, 1988). Hulls best book - he shows us what being a pastor-leader is all about.

Ken Blanchard and Phil Hodges, Lead Like Jesus (Thomas Nelson, 2005). It is about who we are more than what we do - servant leadership.

Malphurs, Aubrey. Values Driven Leadership: Discovering & Developing Your Core Values for Ministry. Grand Rapids: Baker, revised, 2004. Values matter more now than purpose. Shows you how to clarify them and put them to practice.

John Cotter, Leading Change (Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard Business School Press, 1996). My favorite secular book on leading organizations. An easy read.

Jim Collins, Good to Great ( Harper Collins, 2001). Best book on staffing and basic leadership issues facing organizations in print.

Philips, Donald T. The Founding Fathers on Leadership. (New York: Warner, 1997). Great stuff from the founding fathers, many nuggets.

Wagner, C. Peter. Leading Your Church to Growth. (Ventura, CA: Regal Books, 1984). Best book, even if it is a little dated, on how leadership needs to work for a church growth leader.

Henry Nouwen, In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christina Leadership (Crossroad/Faith & Formation, 1993). He gets you were Jesus wants you, checking your motives.

Other well known Christian leadership writers have also written good stuff - see John Maxwell, Bill Hybels, and Robert Greenleaf.

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