Justin Irving

Finished my final read through of “Healthy Leadership for Thriving Organizations” today and now trusting it to the great team at Baker Academic for their final steps. I’m grateful for the support and encouragement that many of you provided throughout the process. Thank you!

Leadership “is all about establishing direction, casting a vision, developing strategy, and aligning people to the direction of that vision and strategy.” - McCloskey & Louwsma

“A good test of a person’s character is how they deal with adversity. But the best test of a leader’s character is how they deal with power.” - Peter Scazzero

“Serving [as a leader] must come from the overflow of who you are as a servant. If you do not see yourself as a servant, then you’ll attempt to serve people out of a sense of obligation, and it won’t seem genuine…. We don’t like insincerity, and neither do they.” - Pace & Pruitt

“Leadership development is so much more than knowledge acquisition. It’s life change, and life change happens in relationship with other people.” - Michael Fletcher

“Everyone is fighting over a relatively small group of stars…. What’s needed, therefore, is an approach that will allow organizations to keep their own leadership pipelines full and flowing.” - Charan, Drotter, & Noel

"Leaders who last don't stop growing; they continue to stretch themselves." - Fred Smith, Learning to Lead #leadership

“Healthy pastors will lead healthy churches and ministries because they have learned to lead themselves first.” - Mark Dance

“We cannot effectively do what we have been called to do unless we embrace who we have been called to be.” - David Ferguson

“Our legacy will be determined more by how we finish our race than how we started it.” - Mark Dance

“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not a bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.” – Jim Rohn #leadership

“Bottomless mines are the treasures of divine grace…. You will never get to the point where grace will fail you. You never come to a difficulty where you will have to say, ‘Here, at last, the arm of grace is withered, and I must look elsewhere for help.’” - Charles Spurgeon