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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...

—the wider group who should benefit from what the group offers, but who perhaps are not involved at present because of the way in which things are structured. They are willing to advocate for those who are not yet included because their vision is larger—they see both what the group currently is, and what it could be if its vision was more expansive. It is interesting that when God calls Abram (later to become Abraham) he informs Abram that through him all the nations of the world will be blessed.
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