E 243 Blast From the Past: Making of A Leader

About this episode

The episode revisits the foundational book 'The Making of A Leader' by Robert Clinton, discussing its six stages of leadership and their correlation with life decades.

Join our series "Blast from the Past" as we look at spiritual formation ideas, books and experiences from our earlier decades that we are revisiting on the podcast. Today's "blast from the past" takes us to a book that was foundational in our early 20's called The Making of A Leader by Robert Clinton. Clinton discusses 6 stages of leadership that correlate with decades of our life and offer some interesting perspective. Mentioned in today's episode: Liturgies of the Wild ...

People in this episode

Hosts: Chris Roberts, Christina Roberts

Topics covered

• spiritual formation
• leadership
• personal development
• books
• life stages

Keywords

• leadership
• spiritual formation
• Robert Clinton
• The Making of A Leader
• life stages
• personal growth

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Making of A Leader

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