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A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix by Edwin H. Friedman Details Books and Reviews

A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix

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About A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix

An invitation and guide for leaders “to cast a courageous and imaginative vision, to lead resiliently, and to be present and steady in times of deep anxiety.” Ed Friedman’s genius was to see the individual in the family in the larger group, bringing the wisdom of his experience as a therapist and rabbi to the field of organizational leadership. A timeless bestseller, A Failure of Nerve still astonishes in this new edition with its relevance and continues to transform the lives of leaders everywhere―business, church, family, schools―as it has for more than 20 “The age that is upon us requires differentiated leadership that is willing to rise above the anxiety of the masses. We need leaders who will have the ‘capacity to understand and deal effectively’ with the hive mind that is us. This is, in Friedman’s words, ‘the key to the kingdom.’ I am grateful for this accessible new edition.”
―C. Andrew Doyle, Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Texas

  1. Complete Title: A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix
  2. Format: Paperback
  3. Language: English
  4. Number of Pages: 288
  5. Publication Time: May 1, 2017
  6. Publisher: Church Publishing
  7. ISBN: 1596272791
  8. ISBN13: 9781596272798

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Reviews A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix

User ImageDouglas Wilson

This was a fantastic book on leadership. You have to wade through some evolutionary hooey, but if you make the necessary adjustments, the central points are simply strengthened. This is a truly contra…

User ImageElf M.

Edwin Friedman’s last book, A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix, is a highly frustrating read. He has a very good idea, wrapped in an unfortunate analogy that has metastasized i…

User ImageKyle Grindberg

I appreciate Friedman, but I don’t really know why. I got saved during my pursuit of my Psychology degree at the University of Minnesota. Since coming to faith I have a fraught relationship with Psych…

User ImageJenny Karraker

This was a hard book to read bc it included a lot of technical jargon and hair-splitting of terms and ideas that was difficult to follow. But the main point seems to be that in order to be a strong le…

User ImageTim McIntosh

I work at a great-books college in Oregon and, thus, must read a lot of books. Failure of Nerve (along with Norms & Nobility by David Hicks) are among the best books I’ve read in the last ten year…

User ImageBrian

This book is like whisky. It is a book that goes meta, describes everything about your world from relationships to institutions to cultural trends, and offers solutions that intuitively make more sens…

User ImageRick Davis

Complete game changer as far as leadership concepts. You have to put up with a lot of evolutionary nonsense, but well worth it…

User ImageJake McAtee

Get Edwin into your veins now, before it’s too late…

User ImageTed Tyler

Even though most of these chapters were written in the 1980s and 1990s (later being published posthumously in 2007), it could have easily been written in 2020. Rabbi Edwin H. Friedman nukes the sacred…

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