Category: Book Summaries

Practicing Greatness

Practicing Greatness

This Summer, our family took a trip to Colorado…to a place of fond memories from my youth.  My grandparents spent their summers away from the Texas heat in Blue Spruce Trailer Park near Durango, Colorado. And when I was 15, I decided to spend time with them instead of playing All-Stars in baseball. I really enjoyed the quietness of the mountains and the manmade-wonder of Mesa Verde National Park.

On our trip this Summer, I picked up Reggie McNeal’s book Practicing Greatness: 7 Disciplines of Extraordinary Spiritual Leaders. I really enjoy reading in the mountains.  For me, that’s a great way to get closer to God…and this book helped me better understand His vision for spiritual leadership. I encourage you to check out what I gleaned from McNeal’s 7 disciplines of extraordinary spiritual leaders.

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Lead With Humility: 12 Leadership Lessons from Pope Francis

Lead with Humility

In March 2013, Jorge Bergoglio was named Pope for the Catholic Church. He selected the name “Pope Francis”—inspired by St. Francis of Assisi—to signal to the world that he would focus on society’s poor, as well as on the sickest and weakest among us.

Throughout his public life, both as an individual and as a religious leader, Pope Francis has been noted for his humility, his concern for the poor and his commitment to dialogue as a way to build bridges between people of all backgrounds, beliefs and faiths. He is known for having a simpler and less formal approach to the papacy, most notably by choosing to reside in the guesthouse rather than the papal apartments used by his predecessors.

In Lead With Humility published in September 2014, Jeffrey Krames outlines 12 leadership lessons from Pope Francis. Pope Francis shows himself to be a leader who understands that leaders lead people, not institutions.

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