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hypon's review
2.0
This book was okay. It was very repetitive though. I feel like the same content could have been communicated in a quarter of the number of pages. Sometimes I felt like I was reading the same sentence over and over. Sometimes I felt like I was reading the same sentence over and over. Maybe it's worth reading the introduction.
justracheljones's review
4.0
Helpful exercises accompany each chapter, offering an introspective look at your own leadership style while considering how leadership within the church ought to look different than it does in corporate America.
beejai's review
2.0
With this book I was hoping for an exploration into the life of Christ with highlights gleaned that share insight into how Jesus acted and operated as a leader. Instead, I got a book that was one part a slim proof text for some leadership lesson covered in each short chapter (in those occasional chapters that gave any text at all), part sloganeering that was supposed to be catchy but turned out nauseating, and part commercial for Blanchard's leadership program that was titled, you guessed it, Lead Like Jesus.
To be fair, the leadership principles that are shared are both Biblical and good. There is some good that can be learned from them. But they are not in any sense unique to this book and a much better job could have been done tying them into the life of Christ. This book would have been much better off with more serious exposition of scripture and less self-promotion.
With regard to the sloganeering... Considering Lead Like Jesus was both the title of the book, key catchphrase (along with EGO1 = Edging God Out and EGO2 = Exalting God Only), and the name of Blanchard's organization, you can imagine how often LLJ was used in this book. Well, no you can't.
I don't drink, but at one point while reading an early chapter I started thinking that Lead Like Jesus would be a great drinking game. These chapters are really short, less than ten pages each for most, but it would be safe to say that there is at least two uses of the phrase per page. I don't know many people who would be able to do a shot per phrase and not be under the table before the chapter was finished. To be fair, In those chapters that pounded EGO1 or EGO2 in your head instead of LLJ, the usages weren't quite as ridiculous. Maybe 1.5 times per page rather than 2. But both of those numbers would be conservative I am sure. In the one 11 page chapter I counted, LLJ was used 37 times. Perhaps such frequency would work in a live seminar. I doubt it, but maybe so. Even still, just because someone can lead an effective seminar doesn't mean they should be writing books. Just remember, Jesus was an excellent leader and public speaker, but he didn't write a word, maybe the author should learn a lesson from him and Lead Like Jesus.
To be fair, the leadership principles that are shared are both Biblical and good. There is some good that can be learned from them. But they are not in any sense unique to this book and a much better job could have been done tying them into the life of Christ. This book would have been much better off with more serious exposition of scripture and less self-promotion.
With regard to the sloganeering... Considering Lead Like Jesus was both the title of the book, key catchphrase (along with EGO1 = Edging God Out and EGO2 = Exalting God Only), and the name of Blanchard's organization, you can imagine how often LLJ was used in this book. Well, no you can't.
I don't drink, but at one point while reading an early chapter I started thinking that Lead Like Jesus would be a great drinking game. These chapters are really short, less than ten pages each for most, but it would be safe to say that there is at least two uses of the phrase per page. I don't know many people who would be able to do a shot per phrase and not be under the table before the chapter was finished. To be fair, In those chapters that pounded EGO1 or EGO2 in your head instead of LLJ, the usages weren't quite as ridiculous. Maybe 1.5 times per page rather than 2. But both of those numbers would be conservative I am sure. In the one 11 page chapter I counted, LLJ was used 37 times. Perhaps such frequency would work in a live seminar. I doubt it, but maybe so. Even still, just because someone can lead an effective seminar doesn't mean they should be writing books. Just remember, Jesus was an excellent leader and public speaker, but he didn't write a word, maybe the author should learn a lesson from him and Lead Like Jesus.
hermione617's review
4.0
Lead Like Jesus by serving. Be in the midst of your people that you're trying to lead. Do some of their tasks (with them). Have a clear vision, identify your core values, and what you picture the future as. Display grace when there is a mistake. Know who you are and whose you are. Being leads to the doing and saying.
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