The Debrief w/ Jocko and Dave Berke: Your Boss Thinks You Don't Show Enough Passion In Your Leadership

Do you ever find yourself thinking, “If I was in charge, I’d do things differently”? Do you have great ideas but feel like you’re not high enough on the career ladder to act on them? In How to Lead When You’re Not In Charge, business speaker and former evangelical pastor Clay Scroggins explains that you can be a leader even without holding a position of authority. Leadership is the ability to inspire others to strive toward a shared goal of a better future, and you can cultivate that ability regardless of your position in an organization’s hierarchy.

In this guide, we’ll first explore the servant nature of leadership, its biblical roots, and the risks of confusing authority with leadership. Then, we’ll discuss Scroggins’s advice for embracing leadership. In our commentary, we’ll supplement Scroggins’s ideas with those of other leadership experts like Ronald A. Heifetz (The Practice of Adaptive Leadership) and John C. Maxwell (The 5 Levels of Leadership). We’ll also look at the psychology behind his ideas.

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