David A. Davis decides to spend his sabbatical learning about leadership and offers lessons from that immersion in a different world.
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David A. Davis
David A. Davis is the senior pastor of Nassau Presbyterian Church in Princeton, N.J. He earned a Ph.D. in homiletics from Princeton Theological Seminary where he continues to teach as a visiting lecturer. His academic work has focused on preaching as a corporate act and the active role of the listener in the preaching event. He has published a collection of sermons entitled “A Kingdom You Can Taste.”
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There are plenty of bad leadership books out there, and David A. Davis ran across many of them in his quest for wisdom about leadership. He offers a list of books worth reading on the topic.
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