Shepherd Leadership offers a visionary new model for transforming leadership practices in both corporate and small business settings. Its not just a matter of thinking or doing things a certain way. This is whole-person leadership. In the Gospels, Jesus Christ is described as the good shepherd. Its a way of thinking and doing and being. The shepherd leader model is more about “who a leader is, not what a leader does” (Swalm, 2010, p. 9). Boundaries. The Good Shepherd and Sheep Dog: The Difference Between Management and Leadership by Sean Carey If an audience was asked to describe a profoundly inspirational and influential individual from any firm, from a big corporation to a small start-up, we would probably hear two separate roles and their accompanying processes mentioned as one. There are at least eight qualities of a shepherd-leader we can learn from the good shepherd in John 10:1-18. This is whole-person leadership. No fewer than eight times in the Old Testament, God is portrayed as the shepherd of his people.

It's not just a matter of thinking or doing things a certain way. Its a fully integrated life— a matter of head and hand and heart. Shepherd Leadership offers a visionary new model for transforming leadership practices in both corporate and small business settings. This is whole-person leadership. In thinking about how the analogy of the staff applies to our leadership in business, the staff can represent our character, our integrity, our humility, our graciousness, our positive energy and our compassion for our people. The ageless characteristics of shepherd leadership are instructive for contemporary leaders as shepherd leaders guide, provide, and protect, but shepherd leadership is more of a state or attitude than a strategy (Swalm, 2010). 1. There are no better teachers or models of leadership. If we have solid character, our people will follow us, just as the sheep follow their shepherd.