Finished my final read through of “Healthy Leadership for Thriving Organizations” today and now trusting it to the great team at Baker Academic for their final steps. I’m grateful for the support and encouragement that many of you provided throughout the process. Thank you!

“Every leader has potential, but not every leader reaches their potential…. The failure of leaders to reach their potential harms not only the leaders themselves, but also the people they lead.” - Etheredge

“[Jesus] intentionally spent the next three years of His life with these leaders growing their faith, character, leadership, and ability to produce more disciples. Jesus was starting off His ministry building a culture of leadership development.” - Mac Lake

“The reason most churches have a leadership deficiency today is because they never built a culture of leadership development yesterday.” - Mac Lake

“Although leadership is a complex process, almost anyone can develop the skills necessary to lead effectively…. Leaders are developed through learning, experience, and mentoring.” - Hackman & Johnson

On Leadership and Jesus Washing Feet: “Jesus served their most menial needs because of who he is…. In God’s economy this is the most logical movement. This is what leaders do. Especially those with great power and authority. This is what defines a leader.” - John Johnson

“It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” – John Wooden

“Institutions give us an opportunity and a mechanism, a means, to invest in something much larger than ourselves, and to make a contribution that we would never be able to make individually and on our own.” -Gordon Smith

“Institutions thrive quite simply because we learn to exercise are strengths, capacities, and callings in a way that is mutually dependent on the strengths and capacities of others.” - Gordon Smith

“I learned that if you are a leader and you’re not sick and tired of communicating, you probably aren’t doing a good enough job.” - Max DePree

“Exemplary leaders know that if they want to gain commitment and achieve the highest standards, they must be models of the behavior they expect of others. Leaders model the way.” - Kouzes & Posner

Discussing how leaders are formed in their early years of leadership: “You must learn how to follow well before you can lead well…. Humility is your friend; arrogance is your enemy.” ... “Perform every task—no matter how small—with excellence.” - David Gergen

“The first mountain you have to climb as a young developing leader is the one inside you. Until you become self-aware and then work toward self-mastery, you are likely to be drifting through life.” - David Gergen

Reflecting on Developing Others: "Model leadership.... It is not automatic. It must become a deliberate activity of every leader." - Scott Thomas