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The Bible on Leadership: From Moses to Matthew-Management Lessons for Contemporary...

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The Bible on Leadership: From Moses to Matthew-Management Lessons for Contemporary Leaders
by Lorin Woolfe

"The Bible," leadership development consultant Lorin Woolfe contends, is the "greatest collection of leadership case studies ever written." He postulates that Biblical tales provide modern managers with "tremendously useful and insightful lessons," because these ancient stories "form some of the major archetypes of our collective consciousness."

This well-researched book is rich with anecdotes from both antiquity and modernity illustrating both good and bad leadership. You'll find King David and Bill Gates; Queen Esther and Anita Roddick; Jesus and Jack Welch.

In drawing parallels between the leadership challenges chronicled in the Bible and those faced by today's leaders, Woolfe concludes that successful leadership, then and now, derives from a set of ten "traits and skills."

THE TEN LEADERSHIP IMPERATIVES
Lorin Woolfe (or his editor) had the good sense and judgment not to do what I'm going to do: Present his ten lessons, as drawn from the Judeo/Christian Bible, in the following cliche manner.

1. Thou shalt deal with thine followers with Honesty and Integrity.

2. Thou shalt lead from a clear Purpose.

3. Thou shalt treat all others with Kindness and Compassion.

4. Thou shalt lead with Humility.

5. Thou shalt master effective Communication.

6. Thou shalt effect results by deploying Performance Management for thine colleagues.

7. Thou shalt improve performance of thine operation through Team Development.

8. Thou shalt demonstrate Courage in all thine affs.

9. Thou shalt deal with all others with Justice and Fness.

10. Thou shalt assureth continuity by giving priority to Leadership Development.

BLESSED ARE THE LEADERS
To even the most casual student of leadership today, those themes ought ring quite familiar. Looking through the lens of modern leadership theory, one can, not surprisingly, find examples aplenty of these themes in the ancient stories of human shepherds leading their human flocks.

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