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Import duties, taxes, and charges are not included in the item price or shipping cost. These charges are the buyer's responsibility. Please check with your country's customs office to determine what these additional costs will be prior to bidding or buying. A college that had lapsed into a coma, its buildings in shambles, its faculty demoralized, its enrollment at rock bottom. A university facing lawsuits, scandal, and near-bankruptcy. Each situation involved different financial needs, different lost dreams, different personal wounds.
But they each had one thing in common: Mark Rutland has led three institutional turnarounds over the past twenty-five years. He has seen organizations that were dying come to new life. And he knows the steps you need to take right now. How do you know what to do to help your church or organization make it, even when circumstances and personnel challenges seem too much to handle? Here are the answers.
Jun 11, Matt Moran rated it it was amazing Shelves: Rutland is President of Oral Roberts University. Our church staff is reading this book together, and I found it chock full of practical and helpful ideas. A college that had lapsed into a coma, its buildings in shambles, its faculty demoralized, its enrollment at rock bottom. Mark Rutland has led three institutional turnarounds over the past twenty-five years.
Rutland writes in this New York Times bestseller, the true leader can say, "This book is for the rugged visionaries who see in the wreckage a hope for the future and are willing to pay the price for a relaunch. Rutland will encourage and equip you to relaunch. With humor, infectious joy, and empowering insight, Rutland shows leaders how to: Cast a vision while facing reality. Align market, message, and medium. Lead from quality to excellence. Our church staff is reading this book together, and I found it chock full of practical and helpful ideas.
I remember listening to Dr. Rutland on the radio years ago, here in Atlanta, and always loved his ability to speak and communicate - I mean, not many folks can clearly and convincingly describe the importance of staffing an organization with "Finders, Binders, Minders and Grinders", the way Rutland so memorably does.
What I didn't know about was his significant experience in helping turnarou Our church staff is reading this book together, and I found it chock full of practical and helpful ideas. What I didn't know about was his significant experience in helping turnaround and rejuvenate struggling churches and ministries. From that background, including stints at Calvary Church, Southeastern Univesity, and Oral Roberts University, he shares a wealth of ideas and tips which will help any organization in need of regaining ground or rebuilding momentum.
His ideas on facing Institutional Reality, Shifting Culture, Creating Strategy and Communicating Vision were rock solid, and there is much more great advice in this relatively short and easy read. Aug 22, Michael rated it it was amazing. An excellent book on turnaround leadership. I should reread this in two years. Oct 23, Jonathan Brooker rated it it was amazing. This is an excellent look at how the primary leader can take an organization that is need of dramatic change and execute that change in the most efficient and most intentional of ways.
The book is incredibly well laid out and covers a lot of bases despite being only pages long. In fact, this is a rare find in a book these days where I wish he would have said more, expounded some thoughts a bit more, and further developed some of them as well. His candor and demeanor are very evident through This is an excellent look at how the primary leader can take an organization that is need of dramatic change and execute that change in the most efficient and most intentional of ways. His candor and demeanor are very evident through reading this book.
I found myself laughing out loud at some of the stories he'd tell and the bluntness with which he would communicate.
On those lines I will say that I expect some will find him to be a bit too self-assured and hard-nosed at times in the way he handles things. However, I do believe that he really does want what's best for people and for the organizations at stake. This book simply IS the handbook for anyone looking to do a turnaround in their organization. Furthermore, it has some great gold to be mined out for the leader who is simply looking to take his organization to new levels of excellence.
Rutland knows what he's talking about and that's evident through this book as well as his track record of turnaround leadership. Aug 07, Paul Huxley rated it it was amazing. I was going to give this 4 stars due to some minor quibbles with the way it was written and some of the finer details. But then I read the epilogue which has an entirely different tone to the rest of the book and comes across very powerfully. The book for the most past is highly practical, easy to read and with lots of simple insight and good illustrations.
The aforementioned epilogue, though, finally addresses the cost of leadership, burnout, friend and family relations and so on. It's not a long I was going to give this 4 stars due to some minor quibbles with the way it was written and some of the finer details. It's not a long book, so if you buy it, make sure you get to the end - it's well worth the investment of time for anyone in any kind of role in Christian leadership - or anyone aspiring to such a role.
Which should be most Christians, if God has given you something to say or do. Wonderful Read One of my favorite books to date. While it focuses on the turnaround of 3 different not for profit organizations, the principles and approach Dr Rutland discusses throughout are applicable in almost any situation.
Jun 17, Chad Harris rated it really liked it. I think it's a great resource for any leader who is coming in as the new guy in an organization. Rutland is President of Oral Roberts University. While he deals specifically with leadership skills and actions needed in order to turn an organization around and make it "profitable" again, the principles apply more broadly to any leadership. Gave me some good ideas for leading Great Lakes SC and actually gave rise to developing a vision statement. Also, his emphasis on holding leadership loosely was good.
He didn't use the term "stewardship", but that's the idea — it's not mine to keep indefinitely, but only as long as I'm leading effectively and as long as my leadership allows. I also found his example of focusing on the right things first helpful also Chapter 6. He focused on infrastructure at Southeastern U before raising faculty salaries in order to attract enough students to create financial margin in order to pay faculty fair salaries — actually better than average.
Jun 12, Sean Higgins rated it liked it Shelves: Fantastic reminders about the leadership costs required to figure out where a group needs to go, then to communicate that direction relentlessly and joyfully.
His emphasis, though, is more for "the guy" at the top than for a group of men pursuing true plurality, like among an elder board. The business side also showed throughout, for example, when he specifically encouraged pastors to put wealthy men on the board of the church. That said, there were multiple helpful common grace principles and q Fantastic reminders about the leadership costs required to figure out where a group needs to go, then to communicate that direction relentlessly and joyfully. That said, there were multiple helpful common grace principles and questions helping clarity. Aug 28, Matt rated it it was amazing.
Rutland is one of my favorite writers. His wisdom, wit, and authenticity comes off the page and sticks with the heart of the reader. This is one of my favorite books I have read this year. He talks business in such a way for the lay person to understand and succeed. It is filled with real life examples, stories of both success and failures that set a person up to succeed in leading any organization. Nov 21, Noah W rated it it was amazing Shelves: This book specifically addresses turning around an organization if it has crumbled or is about to fall off a cliff.
The general leadership advice is excellent.
Even if someone is taking the helm of a healthy organization, the author offers great advice on handling the transition. He defines quality as "meeting expectations. This was one of the points that really stuck out to me. Quick, interesting, and informative. Jun 11, Matt Moran rated it it was amazing Shelves: One of the most incisive books on leadership I have ever read. Rutland has helped turn around three Christian institutions one church, two universities , but this is not a theologically reflective book.
It is about organizational leadership. In terms of church leadership my personal context all the talk about dreams, vision, chaos vs. Nov 26, Franklin Wood rated it really liked it Shelves: Most leadership books pretend to have all the answers boiled down to a science. There is actually a portion of this book that talks about the art of leadership!
You immediately gain respect for this man, who turned around three major corporations that were in crisis.