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Review of ‘Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth’ by Samuel R. Chand

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 Samuel R. Chand, Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2015). Hardcover | Kindle “If you’re leading, you’re bleeding,” writes Samuel R. Chand in his new book, Leadership Pain. That five-word sentence captures a crucial truth about leadership in general, and pastoral leadership in particular. Leadership is hard work. Rather than avoiding that hard work, Chand urges ministry leaders to embrace it. Pain comes in many forms. Chand writes: “some of our pain is self-inflicted, the accumulation of unrelieved stress. Some is the result of external challenges, and we suffer heartaches and headaches because we’re trying to grow … Continue reading Review of ‘Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth’ by Samuel R. Chand

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“Cracking Your Church’s Culture Code” by Samuel R. Chand

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Samuel R. Chand, Cracking Your Church’s Culture Code: Seven Keys to Unleashing Vision and Inspiration (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2011). $24.95, 224 pages. According to Sam Chand, “Culture—not vision or strategy—is the most powerful factor in any organization.” Many churches formulate excellent vision statements and strategic goals for reaching their communities. But their success or failure depends on whether they have attended to “the personality of the church,” that is, its “organizational culture.” Chand arranges these churches on a spectrum from “inspiring” to “toxic.” What separates inspiring churches from toxic ones is how they deal with seven organizational issues, which Chand … Continue reading “Cracking Your Church’s Culture Code” by Samuel R. Chand