This is a short book, part of a series, that focuses on how leaders (with emphasis on religious leaders) can tackle situations of crisis.

It features a useful strategy and I appreciated how it changes the perspective: you got a crisis, the question is not how you get over it, but how you benefit of it, how you don't waste it and use it to make things better.

It's a nice, easy read, for which I am grateful to have received in order to share my view on it. I think anyone in a crisis, especially leaders, because their job is even harder, can benefit from this strategy.

As a professor of leadership studies, this book is a must for every leader. You might have noticed - we live in a time of constant change - and every change has a crisis point. That's why it feels like we are going from crisis to crisis. Tod is the master/pastor of those in the change wave. He gets it and mentors so well. Seriously, this book should be on every pastor, every leader's shelf.

These past several years have been marked by significant disruption and crisis, and as a result we’ve seen countless faith leaders step down from their positions. It’s a hard season to be leading in, and Christian leaders need some form of support and encouragement to press on. I believe this book can aid in such a need.

The author writes clearly and succinctly with graphics and summary pages that both support the main point and are fun to stop and read. As a training tool, the images are especially helpful for making this resource transferable.

There are several points I personally hope to share with others. This book is also short and quick to read, making it an ideal resource to pass along. My only critique is some of the examples became quite prolonged, but overall information was shared in a way that was way to understand and picture how it could be applied.

Overall, a solid and helpful 4 star read that I hope to purchase once published.

Thank you to InterVarsity Press for providing this book for review consideration via NetGalley. All opinions are my own.

Publication Date: August 13, 2024

I loved how the author delves into crisis and adaptive leadership through the format of writing. Using visuals, summarizing key action points and also once in a while delving into a personal account of a situation made this easy to read and understand. It's this way of writing and format that I feel most readers and especially those in situations where they'd love to act right and on time, can relate to and draw practical insights from.

One key take away for me is more about making observations because I have often found myself wanting to act when in a crisis and then dealing with the after effects of failure or feeling like a failure later on. The call to simply step back and observe, is something I would want to try.

Thanks Netgalley for the eARC.