We are called to conduct leadership in government, commerce, schools, neighborhoods, families, parachurch ministries and a myriad of other contexts.
The foundation for those who want to conduct leadership in a manner consistent with their faith in both religious and nonreligious organizational context is described in "Organizational Leadership: Foundations & Practices for Christians." In this book, the authors have been able to take a theory base that is indifferent to the Christian worldview and construct a theory of leadership that is planted firmly on a Christian theological foundation.
As we are living in a world of unparalleled religious wars and corporate greed, our world is in desperate need of a new leadership model inspired by the Law of Love (www.LawofLove.com) shared with the world.
The people who study leadership are action-oriented and want to learn skills they can use to fix the problems they see in their organizations. Action-oriented people often act as if theory should be relegated to the ranks of academics because it is irrelevant for those who are doing the hard work of conducting leadership in organizations.
The leadership literature is vast, and for decades scholars have experimented with ways to organize the literature into some sort of coherent form. Students learn theories best when they are able to assign discrete concepts to similar families of ideas. These families of ideas can be described as "leadership schools."
Leadership schools are not bound by discrete epochs, but have continuously ebbed and flowed over the ages with regard to their influence. To address the limitations of timelines, a river metaphor has been used successfully as an instructional tool in leadership courses and workshops for more than a decade. This book uses the metaphor of "the leadership river" for understanding the historical emergence of leadership theory.
Source: Organizational Leadership: Foundations and Practices for Christians