A Charge to Keep: A Leader's Decision Companion

By Rev. Kevin T Taylor

Most leadership failures are not failures of intention. They are failures of decision.

Leaders are required to make consequential choices without complete information, perfect timing, or the benefit of hindsight. Those decisions do more than solve the immediate problem. They shape culture, reinforce incentives, establish precedent, and determine whether an institution moves with clarity or quietly drifts away from its purpose.

A Charge to Keep: A Leader's Decision Companion is designed for the moments when the responsibility to decide rests with you.

Building on the principles of Rev. Kevin T. Taylor's award-winning A Charge to Keep, this practical companion turns leadership philosophy into a repeatable system for disciplined decision-making. Developed from Taylor's experience leading organizations across education, nonprofit governance, innovation, finance, and ministry, the framework helps leaders examine the reasoning behind consequential choices before the outcome is known.

Inside, you will learn how to:

Recognize the real decision beneath the presenting problemTest whether actions align with mission, incentives, and institutional behaviorNavigate leadership crossroads with greater claritySurface assumptions, tradeoffs, risks, and second-order consequencesApply a structured Recommendation Chart to high-stakes decisionsCreate a decision artifact that preserves the reasoning available at the moment you actedRevisit decisions later with greater honesty, accountability, and institutional memory

The companion organizes leadership responsibility around the Four Pillars of Enduring Leadership: Clarity of Vision, Integrity of Systems, Courageous Leadership, and Sustainability of Impact. Across twelve recurring decision disciplines, leaders confront questions of alignment, purpose, incentives, accountability, authority, conflict, succession, legacy, and more.

The book also introduces an AI Decision Interrogation layer designed to help leaders challenge assumptions, identify blind spots, and test their reasoning without surrendering human judgment or responsibility to technology.

This is not a book that promises perfect decisions.

It provides something more durable: a disciplined process for making decisions you can explain, defend, learn from, and revisit when circumstances change.

Whether you lead a church, nonprofit, school, business, board, team, or complex institution, A Leader's Decision Companion gives you a practical structure for making decisions that are clear, consistent, responsible, and sustainable over time.

Leadership is not proven in hindsight. It is proven in the moment you decide.

Rev. Kevin T. Taylor is the award-winning author of A Charge to Keep, Founder and Executive Advisor of the Taylored Stewardship Institute, and an executive and pastor who has led organizations through transition, complexity, and growth. Through TSI, he helps leaders strengthen decision discipline, governance, and institutional stewardship.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HFTYLNW3
• ISBN13: 9798193734437
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 10.0"