The Emotionally Healthy Leader by Peter Scazzero
Week 6: Chapter 5 — Planning and Decision Making
Read Chapter 5 of The Emotionally Healthy Leader. Key passages: Proverbs 3:5-6; James 1:5; Acts 15:28 ("It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us").
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This chapter marks the pivot from "being" to "doing" — Scazzero now asks how a transformed interior life should change the most concrete, everyday tasks of leadership, beginning with how we plan and make decisions.
Discussion Questions
8 questions1.Scazzero begins Part 2 by insisting that the interior work of Part 1 is not merely preparation for leadership — it is the foundation that determines the quality of everything in Part 2. In your own words, how does who you are shape how you plan and decide?
2.He challenges the common model of Christian planning that simply borrows secular strategic planning frameworks and adds prayer at the beginning and end. What is missing from that model, according to Scazzero, and what would a more deeply integrated approach look like?
3.Scazzero introduces the concept of discernment — communal, prayerful, unhurried — as distinct from mere decision-making. What are the key differences between a decision-making process and a discernment process?
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