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The Tortoise Usually Wins: Biblical Reflections on Quiet Leadership for Reluctant Leaders is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Tortoise Usually Wins is a delightful exploration of the theory of quiet leadership. Written for reluctant leaders, it interacts with three key biblical images of leadership—the leader as servant, shepherd and steward—and links them with some of the key virtues of quiet leadership—modesty, restraint, tenacity, interdependence and other-centeredness. Exploding the myth that the good is the...

worth achieving don’t have some obstacles in the way. If their existence sees us hand in our resignation letter, the likelihood of our ever succeeding is extremely slight. Second, our tortoise kept on doing what she knew best. Putting one foot in front of the other is not newsworthy, especially when the length of each stride is restricted by a rather cumbersome shell, but each small step in the same direction adds up. In the end the finishing line was not only in sight, but crossed. Tenacity and
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