The Mission Always Wins: Quit Appeasing Stakeholders

by Tod Bolsinger, Marty Linsky (foreword), Mark Demel (illustrator)

It's time to further the mission. Not the boss, not the team, not the stakeholders—the mission.

Change requires tough decisions. But when the focus is blurred, how can we stay on track? We need clarity and agreement on the real task at hand—our genuine mission. In this fully illustrated volume in the Practicing Change Series, Tod Bolsinger guides us through naming competing values and realigning the driving purpose with missional clarity.

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Genres: Leadership

112 pages, Hardcover

Published August 13, 2024

About the author

Tod Bolsinger (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) is the vice president for vocation and formation and assistant professor of practical theology at Fuller Theological Seminary. He is the author of It Takes a Church to Raise a Christian: How the Community of God Transforms Lives and Show Time: Living Down Hypocrisy by Living Out the Faith. A frequent speaker, consultant, and blogger, he serves as an executive coach for corporate, nonprofit, educational, and church organizations in transformational leadership. For seventeen years, he was the senior pastor of San Clemente Presbyterian Church in San Clemente, California, after serving for ten years at First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood. Tod and his wife, Beth, have two children.

Reviews

[Karen Wrobbel · Rating 4 out of 5]

This short book helps clarify a truth all leaders know (or should know) - that mission comes first. What makes it so helpful, though, is that Bolsinger uses case studies to illustrate the principles and operationalize how "the mission always wins" influences decisions and actions.

[Abbey Fagan · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good reminder that the mission is the most important part of what we do in our jobs (especially churches and nonprofits). It leads above all else!

[Patrick Fassnacht · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good topic with some good nuggets and take aways. Glad to have read it.
Good as an installment of the apparent series of talks. Will be looking for some next-read other ones in the series.
Thank you for the opportunity, NetGalley.