Accountable Leadership: A Resource Guide for Sustaining Legal, Financial, and Ethical Integrity in Today's Congregations, Revised and Updated

A practical compAndium of resources for creating and managing a sound, effective, and fair congregation.Now more than ever, accountable leadership and sound management practices have become priority concerns in congregations of every faith. In this comprehensive resource, minister and manager Paul Chaffee offers congregation leaders, both clergy and laity, expert counsel on the most critical ethical, legal, and financial issues they are likely to face. He synthesizes in one volume the collected wisdom of hundreds of experts, identifies the central elements that add up to accountable leadership, and backs that up with hundreds of valuable resource listings -- books, periodicals, training programs, and agencies -- where leaders can find additional guidance on specific questions and concerns.