Toy Box Leadership By Ron Hunter, Jr. and Michael E. Waddell Pastors and toy boxes.Now there’s an interesting combination. Toy Box Leadership is a secular book that, when read with “pastor eyes”, can be a valuable resource for the local church pastor. You will find this book full of easy-to-learn and simple-to-use lessons to successfully lead and influence others whether at the board or staff level. This book takes some of the greatest toy memories of our pasts and builds corollaries to leadership. The publisher says, “Forget the latest leadership trends and theories! The most important leadership lessons are learned as kids through the simplest of sources – toys. In this fun and fresh book authors Ron Hunter, Jr. and Michael E. Waddell reveal how your favorite childhood toys have already taught you the secrets of successful leadership.” Hunter and Waddell are masterful in creating leadership images like the following: LEGO Bricks: Relationships – Building begins with connecting. Play-Doh: Mentoring – The mold makes the man. Yo-Yo:Creativity – It only happens when you let go. Rubik’s Cube: Ethics – Making the right turn. Rocking Horse: Efficiency – All show and no go. Little Green Army Men: Strategy – Success is in the setup.  Your mind just ran to places in your house growing up as you sat and played with one or more of the toys above. A rush of emotion comes with those thoughts. The authors encourage you to do with the principles what your mother told you to do with the toys: use them, share them and put them away. The first two we enjoyed as kids and do today. The third one was hard. In these leadership principles it means putting them away while always keeping them nearby to use when the time is right. Great book. Fun book. Pick it up and apply it!