David Davenport – författare

The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.He maketh me to lie down in green pastures;He leadeth me bedside the still waters;He restoreth my soul. Today's professionals need reliable models to teach them how to become better leaders. In this remarkable book, leadership experts Blaine McCormick and David Davenport introduce us to a new kind of leader by offering a new image of leadership— the leader as shepherd.Drawing on the wisdom of the timeless Twenty-Third Psalm, King David's psalm, the authors provide professionals with ancient wisdom for grappling with today's leadership challenges. Shepherd Leadership offers a much-needed lens through which to consider our own leadership as well as the leadership of those around us. This important book teaches us important lessons about leadership: we can be vigilant without being adversarial, we can serve without being passive, and we can guide without commanding. Shepherd Leadership offers a visionary new model for transforming leadership practices in both corporate and small business settings. This is whole-person leadership. It's not just a matter of thinking or doing things a certain way. It's a fully integrated life— a matter of head and hand and heart. It's a way of thinking and doing and being.

The book title, The Highway Knows My Name, comes from a song David wrote a few years ago. Like most people in the trucking and transportation industry, he has crisscrossed this great nation. David has always been involved in moving super-loads-those huge loads that require the removal of traffic signals, powerlines, and detours of weak bridges. These loads spend their time on the backroads, and it is on the backroads that interesting things happen. On the backroads, you meet the hardworking and hospitable folks who make up this great country.Over the years, David kept memoirs of many incidents that happened on the highway. Always seeing God's hand in every situation led David to share the lessons of these stories. They began as stories around the dinner table, became devotional writings that he shared with family and friends, and finally found their way into book form.