Do Christian Leaders Need to Rethink Their Management Style?
Have you lost personnel you needed? Are you on your knees praying for leadership to come along side you? Maybe the problem is you and your style. Christian organizations are going forward today wanting for fresh young leaders. However, when delegation time comes, many of the likely candidates turn out to be too domineering, too compliant, or hampered with a limiting, untreated character flaw. Why? The authoritative leader has shown his colors. Then too, some of the strongest management/leadership candidates have already left. A few to be sure, have left to launch or lead their own thing. Still many leave without the organization ever realizing the truth – the Executive Director or CEO’s leadership style simply drove them out. In a study of senior executives and managers representing over twenty-five different organizations, participants with strong Christian beliefs and behaviors were shown to be more authoritative and less participative in their management style when compared to a con
