Our Character at Work: Success from the Heart of Servant Leadership

by Todd D. Hunter

Many leaders need to win (and thus humiliate others), need to get their way (and thus threaten others), need to be seen in a positive light (and thus blame others), need to give good news to those they report to (and thus intimidate others into fudging reports when necessary), and need to be seen as powerful in every setting (and thus speak condescendingly to others). Our Character at Work demonstrates that leadership is more effective and ethical when done in servant-led ways. How do you become a servant leader? It begins with your heart... Put everything you have into the care of your heart -- the hidden, causative, motivational you -- for everything you do flows from it. It is the real source of your outward life. It determines what your life amounts to. (Proverbs 4:23, author's paraphrase) Our Character at Work leads you on a personal journey, guiding you to an interior renovation of heart and soul that produces genuine and consistent servant leaders.

166 pages, Hardcover

Published February 15, 2016

About the author

Bishop Todd Hunter of the Anglican Mission in the Americas, is the founding pastor of Holy Trinity Church, an Anglican church in Costa Mesa, California and author of Christianity Beyond Belief (IVP 2009), Giving Church Another Chance (IVP Spring, 2010) and The Outsider Interviews (Baker Books, Summer 2010). Todd is also the founding director of Churches for the Sake of Others, the West Coast church planting initiative for The Anglican Mission in the Americas. Prior to his work with the Anglican Mission in the Americas, Todd founded Three is Enough, a small group movement that makes spiritual formation doable.

Reviews

[Andrew Canavan · Rating 3 out of 5]

There are some really good nuggets of insight about discipleship and servant leadership in this book. It was clearly written for those who wouldn't naturally pick up a book about leadership from a Christian perspective and I appreciate the bridge building done by the author.

[Evan Hays · Rating 4 out of 5]

I received this book for free when I visited Bp. Todd's church two Easters ago. I have been reading it slowly, like a devotional. I would recommend others read it like this too because really this book is about deciding whether you are truly going to trust Jesus and be a servant leader or not more than it is a book with a lot of new ideas you haven't heard of before.

Bishop Todd does a great job of presenting this material simply, clearly, and compellingly, and that last word is key because really he is trying to help us overcome that little nagging voice that says, "you've gotta do this or else you'll be a failure so just put your conscience aside like everyone else does."

I was already committed to this model but now I have even more encouragement. Thank you Bishop Todd.