the seemingly incapable, telling stories of vineyards and fields and sheep that needed the self-sacrificial tending of the soul-gardeners. Jesus, in other words, was not a command-and-control leader but a gardener of souls. Now, let’s face it—command and control works, at least for a time. It gives leaders that all-too-illusive sense of control, particularly when they feel they’re in over their head. Most of us, I suspect, don’t want to be leadership bullies. We’d prefer not to lead with an iron