Tempered Resilience, Tod Bolsinger
Tempered Resilience, Tod Bolsinger
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Tempered Resilience
How Leaders Are Formed in the Crucible of Change

Author: Tod Bolsinger

Narrator: Tom Parks

Unabridged: 6 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/10/2020

Synopsis

Tod Bolsinger, the author of Canoeing the Mountains, is uniquely positioned to explore the qualities of adaptive leadership in contexts ranging from churches to nonprofit organizations. He deftly examines both the external challenges we face and the internal resistance that holds us back. Bolsinger writes: "To temper describes the process of heating, holding, hammering, cooling, and reheating that adds stress to raw iron until it becomes a glistening knife blade or chisel tip." When reflection and relationships are combined into a life of deliberate practice, leaders become both stronger and more flexible. As a result, these resilient leaders are able to offer greater wisdom and skill to the organizations they serve.

About Tod Bolsinger

Tod Bolsinger is an experienced speaker, author, and coach who currently serves as vice president and chief of leadership formation at Fuller Theological Seminary. For seventeen years, he served as the senior pastor of San Clemente Presbyterian Church in San Clemente, California. The author of Canoeing the Mountains and It Takes a Church to Raise a Christian, he currently resides with his wife and their two children in Pasadena, California.

About Tom Parks

Tom Parks has always enjoyed giving voice to stories. He has received several Earphones Awards and been nominated for Audies. An active workshop leader and in-demand speaker to corporations and religious organizations going through various transitional processes, he also performs as a drummer on the Midwest musical-theater circuit.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David on June 16, 2021

I largely avoid Christian leadership books these days. They all seem to say the same things and rarely actually helpful to me. This book and Tod's other book Canoeing through the mountains have felt like exceptions to me. This book is focused on the difficult that comes when a leader tries to bring......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on January 16, 2021

Every Christian leader should read this book and contemplate the cost of discipleship that calls people to change. If you want change in your church or organization look to see what you need to look for in leaders. I can't help but say if you want to remain the same to your own detriment you want to......more

Goodreads review by Hamish on November 10, 2020

As a Pākehā (white) pastor in my mid forties, based in Aotearoa, New Zealand, at the tail end of 2020, I have come to be convinced that the Church is relying on many assumptions that are no longer valid. I am held by Jesus, and I love his Church – but in all honesty I think we are failing both those......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan on December 12, 2020

To be tempered This is a helpful and timely book on the reality of leadership that is forged in the midst of real life and real difficulties. Found the importance of answering the question of why insightful and a good marker for those leading in Ministry and life.......more

Goodreads review by Laurel on May 31, 2021

Good book on leadership, using the process of blacksmithing as the picture of building a resilient leader.......more

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