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Love Leads: The Spiritual Connection Between Your Relationships and Productivity
This book will help you see that love and leadership are not mutually exclusive and learn that without love, you cannot be an effective leader.
The one action verb most frequently missing from various manifestos on leadership is love. In Love Leads Dr. Steve Greene shares real-life examples, principles, and exhortations of the love of a leader.
You will discover what it looks like to lead with love—is there a process of love? is tough love really love?—and you will view leadership as it’s never been seen before as Dr. Greene dispels the myths and misconceptions many have come to accept about leadership.
The real-life principles in this book are fully supported throughout by the actions of God who “so loved that He gave…,” leading you to see with new insight that the true essence of leadership is love.
The one action verb most frequently missing from various manifestos on leadership is love. In Love Leads Dr. Steve Greene shares real-life examples, principles, and exhortations of the love of a leader.
You will discover what it looks like to lead with love—is there a process of love? is tough love really love?—and you will view leadership as it’s never been seen before as Dr. Greene dispels the myths and misconceptions many have come to accept about leadership.
The real-life principles in this book are fully supported throughout by the actions of God who “so loved that He gave…,” leading you to see with new insight that the true essence of leadership is love.
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243 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 18, 2017
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September 30, 2018
I received a copy from Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.
This was an okay read. I thought that it was not the best book based on leadership that I have read. However, I did think that the author made some valid points. Those are the ones that I will remind myself to continue to follow as I grow as a worship leader. I hope that Steve Greene makes more books and shows more of his passion for the Lord. Overall, an alright read.
This was an okay read. I thought that it was not the best book based on leadership that I have read. However, I did think that the author made some valid points. Those are the ones that I will remind myself to continue to follow as I grow as a worship leader. I hope that Steve Greene makes more books and shows more of his passion for the Lord. Overall, an alright read.
December 14, 2018
Dr. Steve Greene, the author of the novel of a book called Love Leads is an
extraordinarily fantastic book that has led me to strive to lead everyone I know, not just minors but my piers and elders also. This book has taught me a lot of things but most of all, how to lead using love, not strength/grit. People love to lead now in this generation and past generations with fear, grit, strength, and hate. What you will realize is that all these tactics actually end up causing stress, anxiety, hate/backlash, and depression. Personally I have been coached by an amazing coach in my freshman year of high-school after transferring schools. There was one slight problem I had with his coaching. He would always yell into people’s ears if a person was not playing well or didn’t understand a certain play we have been running. Fortunately he hardly yelled at me but I can see others being frustrated and probably have anxiety after getting yelled at from one if not the best olympian for water polo in America. The weird thing is it was like a spiritual connection between me and God and Brett, my coach. My coach wasn’t very religious but it seemed like he yelled at everyone and then when I did something wrong, he just looked at me and told me what I did wrong and then proceeded to rip on others. Later on during the season we ended up not getting a good placement for Junior Olympics, but the year following that we did. It was because that next year he became super positive and uplifting to the team. He still yelled but it was for a better purpose, a purpose for people to listen and to show that this is important for you to understand. I think this shows how leadership is important to learn from experience. Over time my coach understood who we are as not players but people in his life. He began to be nicer cause of that and that was because of his experience of coaching our team.
Leadership is one of the hardest things to do right as a human. Why? Because God states that no human is whole/perfect alone but with The Holy Spirit we can become renewed and purified. What makes it hard is if we aren’t perfect, how can we lead other humans that aren’t perfect if we aren’t perfect? Well when we are lead by God to lead others, we use love and this world needs to see love. It’s God within you leading these humans. He is using you to be a messenger of His great Word.
Overall to lead under a loving heart is hard to do, but trust me, from experience love is the best way to communicate to people. I have saved people from suicide from helping others in their life by communicating towards them with love. If you try to talk to people with a motivational side but using hate/anger, that will only give off more stress to the person. For people around the world reading this book, look at the world differently, people should not be seen as a distraction or hated, every single person should be treated with love whether they are angry towards you or not. We cannot feed off of each other’s anger otherwise the world would be chaos and it slowly is becoming more and more chaotic. Use Love to lead, not hate.
To evaluate this book throughly, I thought it was one of my top 5 books to be completely honest. I found this book to be right down my alley since I’m playing one more year of club water polo as the old guy for all of del mar water polo club. I didn’t realize how many people look up to me as a star water polo player but so many people in the younger age groups know of me and I have all that pressure to lead these kids to be a positive player. Simply all you need to know is... Love Leads.
extraordinarily fantastic book that has led me to strive to lead everyone I know, not just minors but my piers and elders also. This book has taught me a lot of things but most of all, how to lead using love, not strength/grit. People love to lead now in this generation and past generations with fear, grit, strength, and hate. What you will realize is that all these tactics actually end up causing stress, anxiety, hate/backlash, and depression. Personally I have been coached by an amazing coach in my freshman year of high-school after transferring schools. There was one slight problem I had with his coaching. He would always yell into people’s ears if a person was not playing well or didn’t understand a certain play we have been running. Fortunately he hardly yelled at me but I can see others being frustrated and probably have anxiety after getting yelled at from one if not the best olympian for water polo in America. The weird thing is it was like a spiritual connection between me and God and Brett, my coach. My coach wasn’t very religious but it seemed like he yelled at everyone and then when I did something wrong, he just looked at me and told me what I did wrong and then proceeded to rip on others. Later on during the season we ended up not getting a good placement for Junior Olympics, but the year following that we did. It was because that next year he became super positive and uplifting to the team. He still yelled but it was for a better purpose, a purpose for people to listen and to show that this is important for you to understand. I think this shows how leadership is important to learn from experience. Over time my coach understood who we are as not players but people in his life. He began to be nicer cause of that and that was because of his experience of coaching our team.
Leadership is one of the hardest things to do right as a human. Why? Because God states that no human is whole/perfect alone but with The Holy Spirit we can become renewed and purified. What makes it hard is if we aren’t perfect, how can we lead other humans that aren’t perfect if we aren’t perfect? Well when we are lead by God to lead others, we use love and this world needs to see love. It’s God within you leading these humans. He is using you to be a messenger of His great Word.
Overall to lead under a loving heart is hard to do, but trust me, from experience love is the best way to communicate to people. I have saved people from suicide from helping others in their life by communicating towards them with love. If you try to talk to people with a motivational side but using hate/anger, that will only give off more stress to the person. For people around the world reading this book, look at the world differently, people should not be seen as a distraction or hated, every single person should be treated with love whether they are angry towards you or not. We cannot feed off of each other’s anger otherwise the world would be chaos and it slowly is becoming more and more chaotic. Use Love to lead, not hate.
To evaluate this book throughly, I thought it was one of my top 5 books to be completely honest. I found this book to be right down my alley since I’m playing one more year of club water polo as the old guy for all of del mar water polo club. I didn’t realize how many people look up to me as a star water polo player but so many people in the younger age groups know of me and I have all that pressure to lead these kids to be a positive player. Simply all you need to know is... Love Leads.
January 17, 2019
I received a copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for my honest review.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. Greene gives very practical steps on how to effectively lead with love. I was interested in this book because I am in the ministry, but reading it I felt it was written more towards people who are in business. Even so, I still learned a few things from it. I enjoyed his style of writing. It's very clear and easy to understand. Overall, I would recommend it if you are working in business, but not as much if you're in the ministry. But still a great read.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. Greene gives very practical steps on how to effectively lead with love. I was interested in this book because I am in the ministry, but reading it I felt it was written more towards people who are in business. Even so, I still learned a few things from it. I enjoyed his style of writing. It's very clear and easy to understand. Overall, I would recommend it if you are working in business, but not as much if you're in the ministry. But still a great read.
May 5, 2017
I received an ARC of this book courtesy of Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
I was in them mood for something different than I typically read and this was perfect. It was a pretty quick read, moves at a good pace, and reads well without sounding too "preachy". It's definitely geared more towards the business-type audience (which I am not) but I was still underlining things like crazy and getting good stuff from it.
I was in them mood for something different than I typically read and this was perfect. It was a pretty quick read, moves at a good pace, and reads well without sounding too "preachy". It's definitely geared more towards the business-type audience (which I am not) but I was still underlining things like crazy and getting good stuff from it.
August 25, 2018
There are good tidbits and devotional thoughts sprinkled throughout this book but there didn't appear to be a central thought or thesis. I think if it was redone in a daily devotional format for leaders it would have more punch.
As it is, there are far better books on leadership to invest a portion of your life into to read.
As it is, there are far better books on leadership to invest a portion of your life into to read.
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