Knowing your story is an essential component of effective leadership, but finding your story among the myriad narratives that fill your life isn’t a simple task. Richard L. Hester and Kelli Walker-Jones have offered a path to finding your own story amid the powerful family and cultural narratives that may be obscuring your vision. The aim of this book is to show leaders how to explore their story of reality, tell it to other group members, and consider how it can be used as a resource for leadership. This narrative perspective holds that because there’s always more than one story about a situation, we have choices about which story we will embrace. "Hester and Walker-Jones provide a context in which ministers are able to realize they are not alone. This happens when they are able to share the stories of both success and failure that shape their lives. In the process, ministers are able to thicken what Hester and Walker-Jones identify as the “thin narratives” that too often shape the lives of those in the ministry." — From the foreword by Stanley Hauerwas
ISBN: 9781566993883 (2009) 170pp