My New Book on Leadership

Gary North - September 04, 2021

This book is a companion to my 2008 book, The Five Pillars of Biblical Success, which you can download here.

I wrote this book in three weeks in mid-April.

I tried for years to find a decent book on Christian leadership . . . or leadership in general. There are leadership books out there, but they suffer from these problems:

They do not offer a theology of leadership.
They do not offer a theory of leadership, biblical or otherwise.
They do not offer universal principles of leadership common to all institutions.
They do not offer something simple to recall.

A recent book on Christian leadership lists 129 principles, each with at least five spiritual exercises. Most have six. Some have eight. All 129 are good principles for living. The exercises are good . . . on paper. But the book is useless as a guide to leadership. Nobody is going to remember these 129 principles, nor is he going to perform a minimum of 800 exercises -- not even once in a lifetime. To the author, I would say: "Get to the point!" Actually, he should have gotten to five points.

An introductory book on leadership book should conform to these rules:

1. Identify and defend the common structure of all forms of leadership
2. Identify the core attitudes and skills required of a good leader.
3. Be sufficiently well organized to enable readers to remember #1 and #2.
4. Serve as a model for field-specific leadership training manuals.
5. Be short enough so that the interested reader can finish it in a few hours.

I finally gave up the search. I decided to write it. But I am short of time. So, I did what I usually do when I need to write a book rapidly: I resorted to a cookie cutter, the five points of the biblical covenant. I wrote a short book on this structure in 2006. I updated it slightly in 2020: God's Covenants. Download it here.

I wrote this leadership book in a little over two weeks. It is now typeset and indexed. Download it here.