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!

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

“Leadership is not a consequence of the fall but rather God‘s good design for human flourishing in a well/ordered world.” – Harvey

“My greatest leadership learnings have taken place when I’ve had an experienced mentor by my side, helping me debrief my experiences” - Mac Lake

What are you proactively doing to cultivate the leaders around you? “Every leader has potential, but not every leader reaches their potential.” - Craig Etheredge

“If you were facing crisis in your life to whom do you turn? In challenging times, you need a solid network of trusted relationships with people who are available to council and care for you….Your closest confidants give you the resilience to get through hard times.” Bill George

“The theme of humility and openness and reasonableness and teachability is pervasive throughout the book of Proverbs. This book never stops begging us to keep learning. How can we grow in wisdom unless we are teachable! …upward growth trajectory requires humility.” – Ray Ortlund

“The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.” - Psalm 103:8

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

“Leaders are usually remembered for who they were, not what they did. Instead of building monuments to our ingenuity, we should be focused on building lives worth remembering.” - Jeff Iorg

“Interest is one source of passion. Purpose—the intention to contribute to the well-being of others—is another. The mature passions of gritty people depend on both.” - Duckworth (Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance)

“Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it. Christ exempts you from sin, but not from sorrow. Remember that and expect to suffer.” - Charles H. Spurgeon

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” - Warren Bennis

The Beauty of the Gospel: “The voice of sin is loud, but the voice of forgiveness is louder.” - Dwight L Moody

“Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.” - Peter Drucker

“[God] has lavish grace upon us ‘with all wisdom and understanding’ (Ephesians 1:8). For men, ‘wisdom’ often involves caution and frugality. But with God and His expressions of love, wisdom dictates that grace should be ‘lavished on us’!” - Sinclair Ferguson