Leading with a Limp Workbook: Discover How to Turn Your Struggles into Strengths [Paperback]

Dan B. Allender (Author), Matthew D. Baugher (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 16, 2006

It’s time to turn your weaknesses into your greatest strengths as a leader.

We’ve been taught that leaders will never achieve greatness unless they overcome their limitations and minimize their mistakes. But the biblical pattern is just the opposite: God chooses people who have major flaws and makes them effective leaders, not in spite of their weaknesses but because of them.
This workbook takes you from the frustration of feeling hampered by your limitations to a place of effective leadership, where God uses all of who you are in leading others. Based on the core principles from the book Leading With a Limp, this workbook will guide you to:

·Gain a clear understanding of why God has placed you in leadership
·Recognize how God is powerfully using the very things you consider to be your worst qualifications for leadership
·Overcome feelings of being stuck or defeated by your mistakes
·Practice authentic leadership, which compels others to follow you.

You will discover powerful and unexpected insights as you work through personal inventories, studies in biblical leadership, revealing discussion questions, and stories from contemporary leaders who gained effectiveness through authentic brokenness. With this workbook as a guide, you can turn what you once considered to be major liabilities into the greatest assets you possess as a leader.

The companion workbook to Leading With a Limp, by Dan B. Allender, PhD

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About the Author

Dan B. Allender, PhD, is president of Mars Hill Graduate School near Seattle. A professor of counseling and a therapist in private practice, he is the author of To Be Told, How Children Raise Parents, The Healing Path, and The Wounded Heart. Dan and his wife, Rebecca, are the parents of three children.

Matthew D. Baugher is a writer, music producer, and manager of Christian music artists and authors. He also serves as director of music and worship at Christ Presbyterian Church in Nashville. He and his wife have two daughters.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: WaterBrook Press; Workbook edition (May 16, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1578569532
• ISBN-13: 978-1578569533
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 0.4 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #80,909 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dr. Dan Allender received his MDiv from Westminster Theological Seminary and his PhD in counseling psychology from Michigan State University.

Dan taught in the biblical counseling department of Grace Theological Seminary for seven years (1983-1989). From 1989-1997 he worked as a professor in the Master of Arts in biblical counseling program at Colorado Christian University, Denver, Colorado. Currently, Dan serves as president and professor of counseling at Mars Hill Graduate School in Bothell, Washington.

He travels and speaks extensively to present his unique perspective on sexual abuse recovery, love and forgiveness, worship, and other related topics. He is the author of "The Wounded Heart" (NavPress), "The Healing Path," and "How Children Raise Parents" (Waterbrook Press) and has coauthored four books with Dr. Tremper Longman, III--"Intimate Allies" (Tyndale House Publishers), "The Cry of the Soul" (NavPress), "Bold Love" (NavPress), and "Bold Purpose," (Tyndale House Publishers). He and his wife, Rebecca, live in the Puget Sound area with their three children, Annie, Amanda, and Andrew.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Leading with a Limp, May 20, 2006

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This book and workbook are very helpful. I believe that Christian leaders whether Senior Pastors, Assistant Pastors, Youth Pastors, missionaries, or lay leaders all have a struggle within when it comes to leading. The problem is that many never talk about it to others. Leading with a Limp brings this struggle into perspective and enlightens the passage that God uses the weak things of this world. If you struggle as a leader in any way this book will be a great help. His discussion on reluctant leaders makes so much sense.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Essential!, August 31, 2007

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Ramona Woods "real" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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Many spend a lot of time perfecting their skills inorder to improve and maximize their job or leadership efficiency. This author challenges us to maximize that efficiency from a place within that many dare to explore and/or develop. This is absolutely a "must read" for the leader who wants to be the best s/he can be.

5.0 out of 5 stars Leading with a Limp, September 13, 2011

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As a leadership development consultant in both churches and public organizations, this is the finest book on leadership I have ever read...including all of the reading for my Masters in Coaching in Organizations.
Allender is to be commended for the book and the intensely personal and developmentally probing questions in the workbook. I will be using this for the next leadership class I facilitate!!!