Marcus Warner - Rare Leadership: 4 Uncommon Habits For Increasing Trust, Joy, and Engagement in the People You Lead

Leaders who are unloving and unaware of the importance of relationships can do a great deal of harmI have seen it. I commend Dr. Wilder and Dr. Warner for their innovative and deeply compassionate approach to helping leaders become more loving, more mature, and more effective.

GARY CHAPMAN, PhD, bestselling author, The 5 Love Languages

There are simple, common reasons leaders burn out or blow upor simply lose their joy. I am a leader; Ive counseled many leaders. This book rings so true, and hopeful, because it offers immensely wise and practical help, together with enough illustrations to show us the way.

JOHN ELDREDGE, author of Wild at Heart and Moving Mountains, president of Ransomed Heart Ministries

Its rare to find a book that links joy, modern brain science, and biblical wisdom as a model for leadership. Rare Leadership not only does that wellit succeeds in giving leaders four habits that cant help but unleash joy and greater effectiveness and authenticity and endurance in their relationships with others. Youll come away from reading this book knowing much more about how we are fearfully and wonderfully madeand far better equipped to lead and love the way Jesus did.

JOHN TRENT, PhD, author of The Blessing and LifeMapping, Gary D. Chapman Chair of Marriage and Family Ministry and Therapy, Moody Theological Seminary

Regardless of how many leadership books you have read, Rare Leadership provides refreshing, challenging and practical lessons for developing leaders (and becoming one) that I will be using for myself and my team.

PAUL WHITE, PhD, psychologist, coauthor, The 5 Languages of Appreciation at Work, Rising Above a Toxic Workplace, and Sync or Swim

I love it. I love it when I dont have to work through the fluff and fight the smog to get to the essentials in a book. Rare Leadership by Marcus Warner and Jim Wilder is just thatrare. The content is fresh. The presentation is crisp. The concepts are portable. The results will be obvious.

SAM CHAND, leadership consultant and author of Leadership Pain

Rare Leadership deserves its place with the great leadership books of our time. What Good to Great did for organizations, Rare Leadership does for individual leaders. It provides the research-based science driving the real-world disciplines and practices of exceptional leaders. While John Maxwell gave us laws for leadership, Wilder and Warner have provided the tools to retrain our brains and grow our hearts into the leaders that our teams will want to follow.

DAWN WHITESTONE, MA, LMHC, president of Relational Wealth Builders

This book provides a process driven approach to loving others well through leadership. Instead of just another list of leadership to-dos or no-nos, this book combines reasoned, accessible brain science and sound Christ-centered relationship principles to provide a valuable roadmap ahead for those willing to apply its truths.

MATTHEW TURVEY, PsyD, associate director, WinShape Marriage

Healthy leadership is rare leadership in most organizations. And yet the search continues as people around the world look for the secret ingredients to become centered, effective, and transformational leaders. Marcus Warner and Jim Wilders take the reader to the destination they desire. Their insightful research touches an inflection point that the RARE leadership we seek comes from within and to achieve this we just need to change our mindset.

ROBERT DICKIE III, president, Crown, author of The Leap

Rare Leadership uniquely captures what it takes to be an authentic leader with immeasurable impact, by bringing transformational truths to the marketplace. If you desire to be a leader who ignites transformation this book is a profoundly relevant and timely resource for our generation.

TINA DYER, vice president of a Fortune 500 company, leadership and professional development consultant

2016 by MARCUS WARNER and JIM WILDER

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Warner, Marcus, author. | Wilder, E. James, 1952- author.

Title: Rare leadership : 4 uncommon habits for increasing trust, joy, and engagement in the people you lead / Marcus Warner, E. James Wilder.

Description: Chicago : Moody Publishers, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016001936 (print) | LCCN 2016002629 (ebook) | ISBN 9780802414540 | ISBN 9780802494436 ()

Subjects: LCSH: Leadership--Religious aspects--Christianity. | Leadership.

Classification: LCC BV4597.53.L43 W37 2016 (print) | LCC BV4597.53.L43 (ebook) | DDC 253--dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016001936

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