Canoeing the Mountains

Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory

By: Tod Bolsinger

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins

Publisher's Summary

Explorers Lewis and Clark had to adapt. While they had prepared to find a waterway to the Pacific Ocean, instead they found themselves in the Rocky Mountains. You too may feel that you are leading in a cultural context you were not expecting. You may even feel that your training holds you back more often than it carries you along. Drawing from his extensive experience as a pastor and consultant, Tod Bolsinger brings decades of expertise in guiding churches and organizations through uncharted territory. He offers a combination of illuminating insights and practical tools to help you reimagine what effective leadership looks like in our rapidly changing world. If you're going to scale the mountains of ministry, you need to leave behind canoes and find new navigational tools. Listening to this book will set you on the right course to lead with confidence and courage.

©2015 Tod Bolsinger (P)2017 Two Words Publishing, LLC. Recorded and distributed by permission of InterVarsity Press, P.O. Box 1400, Downers Grove, IL 60515, USA. www.ivpress.com

Required reading for Pastors and other leaders!

T is the second time I have gone through this book. First was with an ebook and then I bought the Audible version. This should be required reading for all pastors and other leaders. We are entering a different world and we need to know how to minister in a very different context.

Both the book and the narrator were excellent!

A good amount of the content from this book is similar to Ron Heifetz's book on Practicing Adaptive Leadership. The principles in that book are distilled in this one and directed towards the church/church leadership. The observations in the journey of Lewis and Clark provide an excellent narrative for the book. Very great read!

An Adventure Awaits

Bolsinger does a great job weaving Scripture, America's pioneering spirit and practical theology. This is a great resource for a church's leadership team. It is loaded with good questions and honest reflections by author.

Great paradigm

Bolsinger offers an insightful paradigm for leaders, sketching a model of adaptive leadership, illustrated by facets of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Very helpful take on adaptive leadership for folks in the Church.

Into the Unknown!

An excellent visionary challenge with practical steps to lead the church, and others, into the new world around us. The reader was very good also.

Wonderful!

Tod Bolsinger is a thoughtful author. I enjoyed his call to adventuring together with God.

Adaptive leadership principles for the church.

Loved it. Long read, but great analogies. A must read for church leaders. I highly recommend.

Best book of 2018

It's extremely creative in how Tod comes out of the Lewis and Clark Expedition and make the application to the church. This is one of those unforgettable books on Leadership. I'm having all our pastors read and discuss this book

Well worth several reads

As a pastor, I read a lot of books on leadership and the church. This is easily the best one I’ve read. Bolsinger presents fantastic mental models for fostering an adaptive style of leadership. The Lewis and Clark references were pointed, insightful and surprisingly relevant.

If you’re looking for a book that lays out a quick fix to your church leadership problem(s), this isn’t it. Bolsinger does better than claiming to have the solution by providing a different way to think about and approach our problem(s).

A great read for ministry today.

I cannot recommend this enough as an introductory way to start thinking about ministry in 2018

Insightful, challenging and gripping

if you are a leader or want to be a leader in the 21st century, this book is a must read. it will challenge your own assumptions and presumptions about what leadership should look like. you will come away from it with a renewed sense of purpose and possibility and excitement at what God can do if you allow him to shape you into being the leader that he has called you to be. it will fuel your desire to be personally transformed yourself as a leader in order that you might be part of transforming communities around you. having lived for the last 3 years through a journey of transformational leadership within a non-profit context, I wholeheartedly endorse the concepts set out in this book. as I read through it, it gave me a framework for my own learning and some language to put on to the revelation that we had been given. and within the context of the world changing even faster in this post pandemic era, I believe what the author has to say takes on significant new meaning. it is not for the faint hearted. implementing the principles will take great courage and will be accompanied with great loss. but the rewards for those who are prepared to undertake this journey will be tremendous. read it, have the courage to do it, and then go out and change the world.

Brilliant insight

i found the analogy with Lewis & Clark fascinating and enlightening. So much to take in, but will enjoy going over the many helpful take aways in small bits.