13. Jesus as a Transformational Leader

This chapter explores Jesus’ relationship with Nicodemus, and identifies four principles of transformational leadership. The four principles follow. First, transformational leaders provide the necessary influence to be strong role models for their followers (Arunima et al., in Advances in Management 7(10):37–45, 2014). Second, transformational leaders demonstrate the inspirational motivation that communicates high expectations to their followers to embrace and commit to the organization’s shared vision (Dialoke & Edeh, in International Journal on Leadership 6(2):14–22, 2018). Third, transformational leaders stimulate followers’ creativity and innovative capacity to challenge their values and beliefs (Alexander et al., in Evidence-Based HRM 6(1):39–53, 2018). Fourth, transformational leaders provide such a supportive climate of careful listening to their followers’ individual needs (Anthony, in Journal of Management Development 36(7):930–939, 2017).