How to Lead When You're Not in Charge: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority
Written by Clay Scroggins and Andy Stanley
Narrated by Clay Scroggins and Gabe Wicks
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About this audiobook
Are you hungry to help others through leadership but don't feel like you have the authority?
One of the greatest myths of leadership is that you must be in charge in order to lead. Great leaders don't buy it. Great leaders--whether they have the official authority or not--learn how to be an influential presence wherever they are.
In How to Lead When You're Not in Charge, author and pastor Clay Scroggins explains the nature of leadership and what's needed to be a great leader--even when you answer to someone else.
Drawing from biblical principles and his experience as the lead pastor of Buckhead Church in Atlanta, Georgia, Clay will help you nurture your vision and cultivate influence with integrity and confidence, even when you lack authority in your organization or ministry.
In this book, Clay will walk you through the challenge of leadership and the four basic behaviors all great leaders have and how to cultivate them:
- Leading yourself
- Choosing positivity
- Thinking critically
- Rejecting passivity
With practical wisdom and humor, Clay Scroggins will help you free yourself to become the great leader you want to be so you can make a difference. Even when you're not in charge.
(Charts and graphs included in the audiobook companion PDF download.)
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"This book will be one of the most, if not the most, pivotal leadership books you'll ever read." - Andy Stanley
"If you're ready to lead right where you are, this book can show you how to start." - Dave Ramsey
"Read this book! The marketplace is full of leadership messages, but this one is a stand out." - Louie Giglio
Clay Scroggins
Clay Scroggins es el pastor principal de la Iglesia Comunitaria de North Point, que proporciona liderazgo visionario y direccional para el personal y la congregación de la iglesia local. Como el campus más grande y original de los ministerios de North Point, clasificado por la Revista Outreach en 2014 como la iglesia más grande de Estados Unidos, el NPCC tiene un promedio de asistencia de más de 12,000 personas. Clay trabaja para Andy Stanley, uno de los líderes más grandes del planeta, y entiende de primera mano cómo manejar la tensión de líder cuando no estás a cargo. Comenzando como pasante de instalaciones (también conocido como vicepresidente de nada), se ha abierto camino en muchos niveles organizativos de los ministerios de North Point y conoce muy bien el desafío de la privación de autoridad. Clay es graduado de Ingeniería Industrial en Georgia Tech, así como una maestría y un doctorado con énfasis en la Iglesia en línea del Seminario Teológico de Dallas. Vive en el condado de Forsyth, Georgia, con su esposa Jenny y sus cuatro hijos.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I enjoyed this book. Full of practical wisdom about leadership.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book is very insightful and practical. There’s no guessing on what the next steps should be.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I really enjoyed the book. Listening again and plan to jot down the practical points.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5The book is rather verbose and lacks a clear message, making it a time-consuming and less worthwhile read.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5One of the most boring books of the year! Avoid it.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5There are some good things, but 70% of the book is just Christian preaching. Probably wiser to read something else straight to the point and more practical.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a bit of a hidden gem. Scroggins writes with a casual tone and reads with a playful manner. Behind all this casual playfulness lies the deep thoughts of a Ph.D. He has blended years of practical work within the church with leadership research and theory that is missing.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What an amazing book! I love Clay’s down to earth spirit. He gave some great advice and I’m excited to lead when I’m not leading.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A great leadership from down low book. I think this will prove helpful in the long run. I may buy the print book.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Completed this in a small group study. Really applicable and faith-based.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I love the detail and ib depth explanations. I didn't care for the religious part of the book, but the rest definitely pertained to me!
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5While probable inspiring and valuable for those who subscribe to the Christian belief, anyone else should skip this title. All the inspirational sections are just telling you to draw strength from God, fear not because you're backed by his love, etc. If I wanted a sermon, I'd go to church on Sundays.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The author tells of his journey in pastoral ministry and how he has learned, as the subtitle said, to leverage influence even though he was not the boss.He speaks of a common condition among many: the feeling of not being able to do much because one is not in a position of power. One can find no end of criticisms of the way things are being done, and the conceit that if one was in charge, how one would do things differently. The author does well to demonstrate the difficulties of these views, and the realization that anyone and everyone has a bit more "authority" than they think they do: they have the power of their influence. The author encourages people to manifest leadership skills in ways to advance the organization's interests and to "lead from behind" through example and influence. The goal seems to be for one to be able to get to the position of full leadership. The author writes in that now common and popular attempt to sound like the average guy, and for my taste used way too many not funny preacher type jokes and deprecating humor; it might work well in the pulpit, but it doesn't translate well in a book format. I understand that the author is attempting to write to speak to the church/business world of the cult of leadership, but I found that to be a major detriment to the work. The core truth of the work - that each and every one of us can use their gifts and skills in the position in which we find ourselves to advance the cause and leverage our influence to benefit others even if we are not in charge, and too many are paralyzing themselves either by thinking they can't do anything until they're in charge, or expecting those in charge to tell them exactly and specifically what to do without taking initiative themselves to find problems to solve - is true no matter where one is in an organization or group, and remains true even for all of those who will never be the top leader. Then again, I am a sharp critic of the cult of leadership which is all the rage in Evangelicalism, so take it for what it is worth.On a detail level, the example given about the why and the what toward the end, regarding canceling the assembly on Memorial Day weekend because of low attendance and thus low morale among staff, embodied everything that is wrong about the spectator/performance/production mentality about the Sunday morning assemblies in far too many parts of Evangelicalism. Terribly sad.There's some great advice here about how a person can work effectively and leverage their influence without having primary authority and responsibility. In a real sense that is true of all of us since none of us are Jesus. But the end goal should not necessarily be about becoming a leader as much as becoming a truly effective servant. The truly effective servant understands leadership, encourages and facilitates leadership, empowers leadership, and all without having to be the leader - and this is a virtue which the book does not consider, and is all too sorely lacking not just in modern society but indeed within Christianity.