House on Fire!: A Story of Loss, Love & Servant Leadership

by Ken Jennings, Mike McCormick, Ken Blanchard (Foreword by)

Overview

A tale of leadership in a class of its own, House on Fire!, winner of the 2020 Next Generation Indie Book Award, moves past tips and techniques to uncover the heart of leadership transformation that occurs when people see differently and serve differently.

House on Fire! follows Sophie, a young investigative journalist searching for answers whose sources for a story on leadership principles in a high-purpose organization get mixed up in a series of mysterious fires around Pittsburgh. Along the way Sophie meets Jeb, a handsome firefighter and leadership partner at The House who is working to determine who is behind the mysterious fires targeting local Christians. Despite herself, Sophie finds herself falling for Jeb and tension mounts as she comes face to face with her past. Will Sophie confront her fear of fire and help solve the arsons before Jeb gets hurt―or worse?

Based on the conviction that leadership transformation in the real world is more caught in the context of community than taught by a single textbook, Ken Jennings and Mike McCormick brilliantly bring leadership development to life through an integrated team of characters, each contributing to the personal growth of the others. Fit for the new landscape of leadership, House on Fire! specifically helps those navigating the shift from leading a company to leading a cause, from command and control to team empowerment, or from leading an organization to transforming a community. Readers follow Sophie as she explores the intersection of faith and Servant Leadership in high purpose organizations and discover how to put Serving Leadership to work in their own high-purpose organization today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781642794878
Publisher:	Morgan James Faith
Publication date:	12/17/2019
Pages:	194
Sales rank:	851,045
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Ken Jennings is a best-selling author, speaker, and consultant in people and organizational development, most recently working with Young Life, the Coalition for Christian Outreach in Pittsburgh, Johns Hopkins University, the Department of Veterans Affairs, Fresenius Medical Care, among other organizations. With his partner and wife, Heather Hyde, Ken founded ThirdRiver Partners which is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business that advises organizations of all sizes in strategic planning, goal setting, and successful management of change initiatives while helping leaders commit and find pathways to serving others. He holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Development from Purdue University, an M.S. in Management from the Air Force Institute of Technology, and a B.S. from the Air Force Academy. Ken lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Southampton, New York.

Mike McCormick has served in pastoral ministry for over twenty years with a broad context of experience, ranging from suburban mega-churches to a multi-site church with a presence in rural Appalachian communities. He has been a presenter at The Robert Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership, The Center for Church Leadership, and the Sri Lanka Bible College. Mike is also a Senior Consultant and Certified Facilitator with ThirdRiver Partners where he has built the leadership capacity in High Purpose ministry organizations, such as Refuge for Women and Military Community Youth Ministries. He received his Th. M. and D.Min. from Dallas Theological Seminary and holds a B.A. from Asbury Universityin Communications. Mike currently resides in Winchester, Kentucky.

Editorial Reviews

My leadership research and life experience have taught me that servant leadership is the best way to lead—because leaders who serve first and lead second achieve both great relationships and great results. Servant leadership has become a movement not only in this country but also around the world. House on Fire will show you practical servant leader actions you can take to become a better leader as well as the heart reasons behind those actions.
— Ken Blanchard, co-author of The New One Minute Manager® and Servant Leadership in Action

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