Readings - 2008 -2010 & currently in progress

 - in addition to the Bible

 

1. The Tale of Three Kings: A Study in Brokenness

Gene Edwards
Christian Books, Scarborough, Maine, 1980
ASIN B000NRXNZ4

 

2. The Effective Board of Trustees

American Council on Education: Series on Higher Education
Richard P. Chait, Thomas P. Holland, Barbara e. Taylor
Oryx Press, Phoenix, AZ, 1993
ISBN 0-89774-806-9

 

3. Improving the Performance of Governing Boards

American Council on Education: Series on Higher Education
Richard P. Chait, Thomas P. Holland, Barbara e. Taylor
Oryx Press, Phoenix, AZ, 1996
ISBN 1-57356-037-5

 

4. The Wisdom of Crowds

James Surowiecki
Anchor Books, New York, 2005
ISBN 0-385-72170-6

 

5. A Sense of Urgency

John P. Kotter
Harvard Business Press, Boston, 2008
ISBN 978-1-4221-7971-0

 

6. The Wolf Shall Dwell with the Lamb: A Spirituality for Leadership in a Multicultural Community

Eric H. F. Law
Chalice Press, St. Louis, 1993
ISBN 0-8272-4231-X

 

7. God Reconsidered: The Promise and Peril of Process Theology

Al Truesdale
Beacon Hill Press, Kansas City, 2010
ISBN 978-0-8341-2537-7

 

8. Realizing Our Intentions: A Guide for Church and Colleges with Distinctive Missions

Albert J. Meyer
Abilene Christian University Press, Abilene, TX, 2009
ISBN 978-0-89112-537-2

 

9. African Friends and Money Matters: Observations from Africa

David Maranz
SIL International, Dallas, 2001
ISBN 1-55671-117-4

 

10.  Fatal Attraction: America’s Youth and Their Affair with Alcohol

James E. Copple
Lulu Publishing, Inc., 2010
ISBN 978-0-557-27448-2

 

11.  What is Mission: Theological Explorations

J. Andrew Kirk
Fortress Press, Minneapolis, 2000
ISBN 0-8066-3233-8

 

12.  Called to Serve: Creating and Nurturing the Effective Volunteer Board

Max De Pree
Eerdman’s Publishing, 2001
ISBN: 978-0802849229

 

13.  A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix

Edwin H. Friedman, Margaret M. Treadwell, & Edward W. Beal
Seabury Books, 2007
ISBN: 978-1596270428

 

14.  Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life

Tony Dungy & Nathan Whitaker
Tyndale House Publishers, 2007
ISBN: 978-1414318028

 

15.  Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

Don Tapscott & Anthony D. Williams
Portfolio Publishing, 2006
ISBN: 1591841933

 

16.  Nazarene Theology in Perspective NTS Presidential Inauguration Address

William Greathouse, 1969
Can be obtained through the library at Nazarene Theological Seminary or                

as a PDF under the writings’ section of this blog

 

17. Speak the Truth and Point to Hope:  the leader’s journey to maturity

Lisa J. Marshall

Kendall/Hunt publishing Co., Dubuque, Iowa 2004
ISBN 0-7575-0823-5. www.leadershipmaturity.com

 

18. Fierce Conversations: Achieving success at Work & in Life, one Conversation at a Time.

Susan Scott (updated with new material)
Berkley Books, New York, 2004. 
ISBN: 978-0-425-19337-2. www.fierceinc.com

 

19.  VISTAS: The Changing Face of Nazarene Missions

R. Franklin Cook
Beacon Hill Press, 2009
ISBN: 978-0834124622

 

20. Postmodern and Wesleyan? Exploring the Boundaries and Possibilities

Jay R. Akkerman, Thomas J. Oord, and Brent D. Peterson, editors,
Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, 2009
ISBN: 978-0834124585

 

21. Governance as Leadership: Reframing the Work of Nonprofit Boards

Richard P. Chait, William P. Ryan, Barbara E. Taylor
Wiley, 2004
ISBN: 978-0471684206

 

22. Paul Orjala: The Man, The Mission

R. Franklin Cook
Beacon Hill press of Kansas City, 2009
ISBN: 978-0834124615

 

23.  A Theology of Love: the Dynamic of Wesleyanism

Mildred Bangs Wynkoop
Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, 1972
ASIN: B0006C7848

 

24.  Learning to be Last

E. Lebron Fairbanks and Stan Toler
Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, 2008
ISBN: 978-0834123533

 

25.  Leading with a Limp: Turning Your Struggles into Strengths

Dan B. Allender
Waterbrook Press, 2006
ISBN: 978-1-57856-952-6

 

26.  Nazarene Roots: Pastors, Prophets, Revivalists & Reformers

Stan Ingersol
Beacon Hill Press, 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8341-2478-3

 

27.  How the Mighty Fall: and Why Some Companies Never Give In

Jim collins
Harper Collins, 2009
ISBN: 978-0-9773264-1-9

 

28.  Outliers: The Story of Success

Malcolm Gladwell
Penguin Books, 2008
ISBN: 978-0-141-03625-0