What Does it Look Like When You Lead Your Family Like Jesus?
Leadership experts Ken Blanchard and Phil Hodges
team up with parenting mentor Tricia Goyer
to present a revolutionary approach to parenting
Ken Blanchard, author of The One Minute Manager® (a New York Times Best Seller for
two years), has teamed up with his Lead Like Jesus co-founder Phil Hodges, and author/parenting
expert Tricia Goyer to release Lead
Your Family Like Jesus: Powerful Parenting Principles from the Creator of Families (March 25, 2013/ISBN
978-1-58997-720-4, HC, $19.99, Tyndale House Publishers). Recognized as one of
the world’s top business leadership experts, Blanchard now looks to Jesus, the
greatest leader of all time, as the model for this new, revolutionary parenting
book.
Does your
family need a five-star general at the helm? A psychologist? A referee? Lead Your Family Like Jesus, points to a
better role model. In Lead Your Family
Like Jesus, the authors show how every family member benefits when parents
take the reins as servant-leaders. Moms and dads will see themselves in an
entirely new light—as life-changers who get their example, strength, and joy
from following Jesus at home.
The book
begins by explaining that leadership is an influence process and that anyone
who influences the thinking, behavior, or development of others is a
leader—making parenting the most important life role leadership position most
people ever hold. Offering practical examples from real-life parents, the
authors then encourage the alignment of four leadership domains:
- Heart - the character and values employed in influencing children
- Head - one’s viewpoint and beliefs about leading
- Hands - what a parent actually does while leading and influencing
- Habits - how a parent must continually refocus his or her desires to lead as Jesus would do.
This
user-friendly book’s practical principles and personal stories mark the path to
a truly Jesus-centered family, where integrity, love, grace, self-sacrifice,
and forgiveness make all the difference.
“When my
kids were young, I often used Ken Blanchard's business books to train my
children. I knew that as a mom I was a leader, and the more I had my act
together the better I could lead the troops,” says Goyer. “A mutual friend
encouraged me to put together some ideas to share with Ken for Lead Like Jesus for Families at the same
time Focus on the Family approached Ken with the same concept. Maybe God was
speaking to a few hearts!”
“What I
love about this book is that it reminds us of our role as parents,” Goyer
continues. “Any time we are trying to influence the thoughts, behaviors, and
development of another person we are a leader. If this isn't the definition of
a parent I don't know what is!”
Goyer is teaming up with fellow
Focus on the Family/Tyndale author Tracey Eyster (Be the Mom: Overcome Attitude Traps and Enjoy Your Kids) for the Lead, Momma Lead webcast on April 16 at
8:00 PM EDT. During the event, Goyer and Eyster will offer encouragement to
moms based on their respective books and interact with participants by asking
questions submitted during the webcast. Moms can join the live event via Tricia Goyer’s Facebook Page.
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Visit leadyourfamilybook.com for more information about the book, the authors and
for free family resources.
About
the Authors
Ken
Blanchard:
Leadership expert and author of over 50 books,
including the New York Times bestseller, The One-Minute Manager®; co-founder of Lead Like
Jesus; and coauthor of Lead Like Jesus; Lessons from the Greatest Leadership
Role Model of All Time.
Phil
Hodges:
A human resource and industrial relations manager in
corporate America for 36 years with Xerox Corporation and U.S. Steel,
co-founder of Lead Like Jesus; co-author of five books, including Lead Like
Jesus, The Servant Leader and Leadership by the Book with Bill
Hybels.
Tricia
Goyer:
Bestselling author of more than 33 books, including nine
non-fiction releases, and more than five hundred articles for national
publications; selected as one of the Top Moms to Follow on Twitter in 2010 by SheKnows.com;
popular blog contributor, Teen Mops mentor, speaker, and radio host. www.triciagoyer.com
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