Courageous Leadership - Bill Hybels

reviewer: Ruth Brown

Information Author: Bill Hybels Title: Courageous Leadership Publisher: Zondervan Released: 2002

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I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, consisting of twelve short chapters, written in a very personal and conversational style.

Bill sets out what he perceives to be the key lessons for leaders, learnt through his 30 years experience of leading a church from a small group to tens of thousands. He shares his failures and successes with humility, in the hope that others might learn from his mistakes. I found the insights into how different people and teams function and the chapters on leadership styles, building teams, self-leadership and the leader's pathway particularly helpful.

This book is aimed at all Christians in leadership and encourages each person to find their own pathway in the areas of leadership that God has called them to. It is not a book based on research evidence, rather an honest sharing of one man's journey and growth, from which much wisdom can be gained.

What other people say

Courageous Leadership is Bill Hybels’ magnum opus, a book far too important to be written before its time. Only now, after nearly thirty years leading his own church from a handful of people with a burning vision into a globe-spanning kingdom force—only after almost three decades of victories and setbacks, of praying hard and risking big—is Hybels ready at last to share the lessons he has learned, and continues to learn, about Christian leadership.

Posted: 7th Nov 2009