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Article: Leading Quietly: An Unorthodox Guide to Doing the Right Thing.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
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- Currents in Theology and Mission
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- April 1, 2004
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Leading Quietly: An Unorthodox Guide to Doing the Right Thing. By Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2002. 201 pages. Cloth. $26.95.
Influenced by bestselling books on leadership produced by major business schools, many current church leadership books extol only the virtues of bold, visionary, or courageous leadership. For clergy, this often means that pastors are to be the captains of the ship leading their shipmates into the glorious future. They must set the course, dumping whatever ballast is keeping them from moving quickly, and head for the deep waters. Yet, the fact is that very few people, including clergy, have the ...