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Making Room for Leadership
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You don't just lead with your voice and your decisions. You lead with your body.The way you take up space in a room, the way you use or don't use your body in group settings, influences others. And all of us hold power to lead inour bodies.Yet, pastor and spiritual director MaryKate Morse contends, most of us are unaware of the ways we do or can use our bodies to influence others. Some of us cower in the corner, trying to hide. Others try to speak but are never heard. Stillothers are the focal point as soon as they walk in a room. What makes the difference? And how can we learn to lead in our own individual way with confidence?In Making Room for Leadership Morse
Throughout, Christ's use of power serves as the guide for how to lead in ways that are life-giving and empowering to others.We all can lead. We all have some kind of power in us. Once we become aware of our influence, we can direct it toward good, toward building others up. Doing just that in these pages, Morse helps you learn to do the same in the places you live, move and have your being.
Foreword by Leonard Sweet
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Leadership Journey
1. Bodied Influence: Leadership and the Body
2. Holding the Dynamite: The Ethics of Power
3. Simon and the Sinner Woman: Jesus' Use of Power
4. The Epicenter: How Leaders Take Up Space
5. The "It" Factor: Power in Presence
6. The Law of the Jungle: Visual Marks of Presence
7. Second Impressions: Visceral Marks of Presence
8. Bean-Counting Social Space: The Economics of Power
9. Space-Taking and Space-Hiding: Using Power Well
10. Open Space: Managing Our Own Souls
11. Getting in the Sandbox: Practical Strategies
12. The Guardians: Overseeing a Leader?s Use of Power
Conclusion: One Leader Makes Room
Notes