Advanced Leadership and Decision Making

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Task 1- Faith in Leadership by Robert Banks and Kimberly Powell
From the book Faith in Leadership by Robert Banks and Kimberly Powell I understand
how faith in leadership teaches leaders how to effectively live out with their faith at work. Faith
in leadership also helps the clergy men and members in an organization to have a better
understanding of the business leaders. The resources are meant to target the people working in
the main stream; also it helps them in meeting the unique challenges which is presented in a
secular working environment. After reading the chapters from the book I find that each and every
chapter is written by different authors from different backgrounds. After further research work I
have found that each and every author who has presented their thoughts in the book are
accomplished consultants, practitioners of faith based leadership from diverse background in
different kinds of organizations. As discussed by the author Benjamin William, where he says at
the Christian form of leadership is very much different because it is known to have a different
form of start up. The starting point of building the faith in leadership is with Jesus Christ and the
vision of the kingdom which came to inaugurate. I think that the authors present in the discussion
very easily tackles the unique challenges which stresses down the Christian leaders in working
in the mainstream of the business organization. I firmly agree with the author that a leader should
be implicit rather than being explicit. However reading the chapter I have reached a conclusion
that leadership which is having faith in God makes the work to be beneficial, fulfilled and keeps
the organization healthy. The book will be a great value to those in leadership who want to
explore the issues and problems which are faced in having faith in a leader and how a particular
leadership style impacts the workplace. I think that this book is a great value to those who are in
the leadership roles of the organization. It will also those person who are struggling with the
relevance of strong Christian convictions in today’s pluralistic community. The book raises a

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very potentially distinctive question to its readers which the leaders usually tend to avoid in
difficult situations. The writer Dee Pee raises a very important question that is “what is the
connection between people’s personal conviction as well as their public responsibilities?” The
most interesting part which I liked the most is that the book explores its readers with various
contributions from the wide measurement of the Christian tradition (Banks and Powell 2000).
The book has properly explained how and whether faith should play in the leadership or not.
However, the book consists of various individual essays which are written by enormous writers
from all around the world. I personally liked two of the authors where Isabel Lopez writes about
how he is successful in finding wisdom and purpose in chaotic times and William Diehl who has
addressed the difficulties of sharing personal faith with the co workers in an organization.
Task 2 – Good to Great by Jim Collins
Jim Collins the author of the book had asked a question in his last book that can a good
company become a great company in the coming years, if so how is it possible. The author in
this book concludes that it is very much possible for a good company in becoming a great one by
working hard and meeting its goals. Jim and his research tem which consisted of twenty one
person had worked hard in their management research firm in order to find the possible reasons
which can help a company to achieve its goals and establish further. I really feel that they have
worked hard all the days where Jim along with the team had read and encoded more than 6000
articles generated interview transcripts and created huge amount of computer data in the five
year project before publishing the book. In the book Good to Great Collins has successfully
discussed about those companies which have achieved its success and has made the Fortune 500.
After reading the articles I have found that Jim has included more than 1400 companies. From
those companies Jim and his research team has found out 11 of the most successful companies