The Bible on Leadership: From Moses to Matthew Management Lessons for Contempora

The Bible on Leadership

From Moses to Matthew-Management Lessons for Contemporary Leaders by Lorin Woolfe

Publisher: AMACOM | ISBN 0814406823 | 0.8 MB | 240 Pages

The Bible," leadership development consultant Lorin Woolfe contends, is the "greatest collection of leadership case studies ever written." He postulates that Biblical tales provide modern managers with "tremendously useful and insightful lessons," because these ancient stories "form some of the major archetypes of our collective consciousness."

This well-researched book is rich with anecdotes from both antiquity and modernity illustrating both good and bad leadership. You'll find King David and Bill Gates; Queen Esther and Anita Roddick; Jesus and Jack Welch.

The plethora of examples that Woolfe has mined from both the Good Book and today's business press amply make the case for each lesson the author presents. But too much so. The book often seems to read like: Ancient Anecdote...Ancient Anecdote... Modern Example...Modern Example...

Still, for people who are students of leadership or adherents to the Judeo/Christian tradition (or who want to understand the source of its echoes in our modern world), this is a useful, well documented, and instructive work worth having and reviewing.