Making Room for Leadership: Power, Space and InfluenceYou 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 in our 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. Still others 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
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Contents
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The Ethics of Power | 35 |
Jesus Use of Power | 50 |
How Leaders Take Up Space | 60 |
Power in Presence | 76 |
Visceral Marks of Presence | 109 |
The Economics of Power | 124 |
Using Power Well | 140 |
Managing Our Own Souls | 157 |
Practical Strategies | 169 |
Overseeing a Leaders Use of Power | 183 |
One Leader Makes Room | 196 |
Notes | 208 |
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