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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...

associated with words like ‘mild’ and ‘weak’. Yet, this key word which describes Moses in the Old Testament (Num. 12:3) proves to be a vital word for Jesus Christ (Matt. 11:28). Meekness is ‘gentleness with the strength of steel’. It is strength of personality under God’s control! It demonstrates such virtues as modesty, restraint, tenacity, interdependence and other-centredness. After the sermon someone commented to me that this beatitude is the most counter-cultural of them all. It declares that
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