📱 eBook en inglés Tried and True

Recovering Timeless Leadership Vision for Contemporary Challenges

Successful leadership needs more than top-down strategic plans and lofty vision statements. Real leadership happens at the intersection of a leaders inner life with the outer expression of care for their organization and the communities it serves. To find sustainable paths of leadership, we can look to reliable guidance from those whose legacy has stood the test of time.

Tried and True offers a unique convergence of the decades of leadership experience and scholarship of authors Margaret Diddams and Shirley Mullen with a historical exploration of John Wesleys life and leadership. Informed by their personal and professional journeysin both higher education and the corporate world, Diddams and Mullen provide a comprehensive, scholarly, and practical study of John Wesleys leadership practices that shaped not just the church but the entire society.

In Tried and True, Diddams and Mullen

speak to todays leadership fatigue with a focus on sustainable, character-driven leadership; revive John Wesleys timeless leadership practices for modern challenges; and integrate inner character with outward institutional impact for a vision of sustainable leadership. offer a hope-filled vision for todays leaders and the institutions they serve.

The three attributes of surrender, stewardship,and servanthood provide a dynamic framework for leaders as they navigate the tensions and paradoxes of leadership. As leaders seek to be faithful to their calling, they will find that even as God is inspiring them to lead, he is also using the work itself to form them more closely to the image of Christ.

This book doesnt offer the latest leadership fad or a "silver bullet" solution. It calls leaders back to what has stood the test of time—a sustainable, countercultural path of leadershipthat not only transforms organizations, communities, and cultures, but also opens leaders themselves to the Spirits deep work of transformation.