Leadership Beef Jerky: Principles and Practices You Can Chew On - Paperback

by Gregory W. Bourgond (Author)

Leadership competencies may be the tools of leadership, but biblically informed character is the power of leadership. The exercise of leadership involves character, competence, and congruence. Who you are as a leader-your character and how your wiring plays a role in your practice of leadership-your congruence, will determine the effectiveness of your leadership practices. The competencies you leverage will produce exponential results. In Leadership Beef Jerky, author Dr. Gregory W. Bourgond presents principles and practices that help organize how you think about leadership and what will and should inform your understanding and practice. He introduces you to a calibration of the soul, guarding your heart because it will bring forth, good or bad, what is stored within. Based on his personal experiences, Bourgond offers processes, procedures, methodologies, tactics, and strategies to help you become a more effective leader regardless of the number of people you lead. He demonstrates when the head and the heart align-the beingness of your leadership-then the hand produces God-honoring results. Leadership Beef Jerky discusses the idea that effective godly leadership is developed during a lifetime, is exercised through your God-given passion and giftedness, finds its source and authority in God, is built on biblical principles and values, and is practiced in culturally sensitive ways. The principles and practices described in this guide help you become a leader after God's heart.

Author Biography

Heart of a Warrior Ministries Shoreview, Minnesota Website: www.heartofawarrior.org Email: HOAWAdvance@aol.com Phone: 651-308-1530 Learner / Activator /Achiever / Input / Belief Dr. Greg Bourgond earned a bachelors degree in psychology from Chapman University (1979), a master of divinity degree (MDiv.) from Bethel Seminary in San Diego (1983), a doctor of ministry degree (DMin.) in church leadership from Bethel in Saint Paul (1997), and an EdD in instructional technology and distance education (2001) from Nova Southeastern University. He completed postgraduate studies in the Institute for Educational Management at Harvard Graduate School of Education (2003). He is the author of award-winning books such as A Rattling of Sabers: Preparing Your Heart for Lifes Battles, published in 2010 and 2012; Papas Blessings: The Gift That Keeps Giving, published in 2011; and Setting Your Course: How to Navigate Lifes Journey, published in 2014. His previous experience includes ten years in the defense industry and commercial business and over eighteen years in various ministry positions. He has held positions as a principal analyst and project manager for Analysis & Technology, Inc., senior project engineer for Hughes Aircraft Company, unit training manager for General Electric, and general manager in Burdick Companies. In ministry, he has been a deacon, elder, ministry director, associate pastor, and executive pastor in San Diego and Rochester. He completed twenty-nine years of active and reserve duty in enlisted and officer ranks in the US Navy. He completed four years as executive pastor of Christ Community Church in Rochester and is currently the director of Online Coaching Certification for Ministry Advantage and president and founder of Heart of Warrior Ministries. He serves in several consulting roles with other ministry organizations. He served as assistant to the provost of Bethel University and director of Strategy for Online Education, providing direction for advancement of online education across Bethel Universitys four academic units. He provided operational support to Bethel Seminary in the areas of distributed learning, budget development, and future strategic operations. He has also served as vice president for Operations and Strategic Initiatives, dean for the Center of Transformational Leadership, and dean of Academic Affairs and Instructional Technology at Bethel Seminary. Greg serves as a consultant and teacher in the areas of leadership formation and development, spiritual and personal formation, legacy, life mapping and focused living, organizational systems theory and applications, operational effectiveness, ministry planning, strategic planning, distance learning and technology-mediated course delivery, mens ministry, small-group dynamics, and mentoring. As president and founder of Heart of a Warrior Ministries, his ministry is dedicated to helping men live lives of integrity and honor under the authority of God. He has taught in graduate and postgraduate schools and ministry organizations and has spoken and preached in many churches and ministry contexts around the world. He has also twice been C. S. Lewis Visiting Scholar-in-Residence at the Kilns in Headington, England. Greg has been happily married for forty-nine years and enjoys his grandchildren every chance he gets.