Readings - 2008 -2009 & currently in progress - in addition to the Bible

 

1. What is Mission: Theological Explorations
     J. Andrew Kirk
     Fortress Press, Minneapolis, 2000
     ISBN 0-8066-3233-8

 

2.  Called to Serve: Creating and Nurturing the Effective Volunteer Board
     Max De Pree
     Eerdman’s Publishing, 2001
     ISBN: 978-0802849229
 
3. 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
 
4. Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life
     Tony Dungy & Nathan Whitaker
     Tyndale House Publishers, 2007
     ISBN: 978-1414318028
 
5. Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
     Don Tapscott & Anthony D. Williams
     Portfolio Publishing, 2006
     ISBN: 1591841933
 
6. Nazarene Theology in Perspective NTS Presidential Inauguration Address
      William Greathouse, 1969
      Can be obtained through the library at Nazarene Theological Seminary

 

7. 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
 
8. Fierce Conversations: Achieving success at Work & in Life, one Conversation at a Time.
     Susan Scott (updated with new material)
     Berkley Books, New York, New York. A division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. Copyright 2002, 2004.  

     Berkley trade paperback edition-January 2004.
     ISBN: 978-0-425-19337-2. www.fierceinc.com
 
 9. VISTAS: The Changing Face of Nazarene Missions
     R. Franklin Cook
     Beacon Hill Press, 2009
     ISBN: 978-0834124622
 
10. 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
 
11. Governance as Leadership: Reframing the Work of Nonprofit Boards
     Richard P. Chait, William P. Ryan, Barbara E. Taylor
     Wiley, 2004
     ISBN: 978-0471684206
 
12. Paul Orjala: The Man, The Mission
     R. Franklin Cook
     Beacon Hill press of Kansas City, 2009
     ISBN: 978-0834124615
 
13. A Theology of Love: the Dynamic of Wesleyanism
     Mildred Bangs Wynkoop
     Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, 1972
     ASIN: B0006C7848
 
14. Learning to be Last
     E. Lebron Fairbanks and Stan Toler
     Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, 2008
     ISBN: 978-0834123533
 
15. Leading with a Limp: Turning Your Struggles into Strengths
      Dan B. Allender
      Waterbrook Press, 2006
      ISBN: 978-1-57856-952-6

 

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

      Stan Ingersol

      Beacon Hill Press, 2009

      ISBN: 978-0-8341-2478-3

 

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

Jim collins

Harper Collins, 2009

ISBN: 978-0-9773264-1-9

 

18.  Outliers: The Story of Success

Malcolm Gladwell

Penguin Books, 2008

ISBN: 978-0-141-03625-0