It serves to help other leaders navigate the organizational, relational, and emotional details of a leadership transition without losing momentum. Dancing with Cinderella outlines several core principles drawn from Jeff Harlow's leadership transition as the senior pastor of a church of over 3000 members. After all, God's purposes have longer shelf lives than His leaders. Īny vision that underestimates the importance of leadership transition is incomplete. It doesn't matter if you're the leader of a small or large church.

In these pages you can discover how to do transition right, so you don’t have to figure out why it went wrong.Any vision that underestimates the importance of leadership transition is incomplete.

How do departing leaders define future boundaries?.

How do the objectives of a leader change after the transition starts?.

What is really at the heart of the transition?.

This book addresses many of the questions that a transition raises: Jeff's story will help leaders, teams, and the members of a church think through the principles of transition as they prepare for the exit of a current pastor and the entrance of their new leader. It doesn’t matter if you’re the leader of a small or large church, old or plant church, traditional or contemporary church, obscure or iconic church an unhealthy leadership transition hurts people and cripples mission.

After all, God’s purposes have longer shelf lives than His leaders.ĭancing with Cinderella outlines several core principles drawn from Jeff Harlow's leadership transition as the senior pastor of a church of over 3000 members. Any vision that underestimates the importance of leadership transition is incomplete.

Dancing with Cinderella by Jeff Harlow