The Hospitable Leader: Create Environments Where People and Dreams Flourish - Paperback

by Terry A. Smith (Author)

Successful leaders today don't dictate; they invite. They don't dismiss; they welcome. They don't neglect; they care. Now more than ever we must pay attention to the soft side of leadership if we want hard results. As leaders--from parents to CEOs--we must learn gracious leadership to truly, positively, change our spheres of influence.

In this passionate, powerful book, pastor and leadership mentor Terry Smith fleshes out five vital principles you need to become a hospitable leader. He shows that this type of leadership is not superficial niceness or allowing people to do whatever they want. Hospitable leadership is result-oriented because it's motivated by genuine love. It's how you create environments where people and dreams can thrive, where vision turns to action, and where great things happen regularly. Here is everything you need to become the type of leader people want to follow.

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Everyone is a leader somewhere. Whether a parent, pastor, coach, or CEO, anyone can learn to lead hospitably.

Hospitable leadership is a big idea. An urgently needed idea. In a world that far too often feels inhospitable, people are longing for leaders who create a climate that brings diverse people together to achieve desired and meaningful results. That's what hospitable leaders do. Hospitable leaders create environments of welcome where moral leadership can more effectively influence an ever-expanding group of people to accomplish worthy goals together.

Terry Smith has lived this paradigm-shifting message and has grown an incredibly diverse congregation with a robust leadership culture in the New York City metropolitan area.

In The Hospitable Leader, he shares how to warm people's hearts so they are more receptive to your leadership efforts. The many keys you will discover include how to

- Employ the metamorphic possibility of welcoming strangers to your circle of influence
- Communicate transformative truths with grace
- Make your dreams come true by helping others realize their own

Practicing leadership with a hospitality mindset is the right way--the moral way--to lead people. But when understood properly, hospitable leadership has a radical edge.

And it brings revolutionary results.

Author Biography

Terry A. Smith (MA in organizational leadership) is lead pastor of The Life Christian Church in the New York City metropolitan area. TLCC is a nondenominational faith community known for its vibrant diversity and robust leadership culture. Terry is a cofounder of The New York City Leadership Center, and he and his wife, Sharon, have three adult children: Sumerr, Caleb, and Christian.