Our Father Below is pleased with the work of the demons in the Lowerarchy of hell to create division and contention among the people of Earth in the twenty-first century. However, he is angered by the growing interest in the ideas of humility and zeal that Christian leaders have discovered in the Enemy’s two-thousand-year-old propaganda. These ideas have been formalized into two related, abhorrent concepts: servant leadership and level 5 leadership. Servant leadership describes individuals who begin with a natural desire to serve first, and then conscious choice causes them to aspire to lead. Level 5 leadership, from Good to Great by Jim Collins, combines the paradoxical blend of humility and zeal. Marduk, a thoroughly ruthless and cruel demon, mentors his naïve and hapless nephew Slugtoad. Marduk assigns Slugtoad to a male and a female patient in America who have the potential to be strong Christian leaders. In his letters, Marduk advises Slugtoad to guide the patients away from effective leadership. The first section of the book is comprised of the Marduk letters, while the second section provides the scholarship and research of servant and level 5 leadership.

 

Review

"The Marduk Letters is useful for leaders to self-examine their personal values and attitudes toward others in the workplace, seeking to find areas that need to be changed. Marduk's advice to his nephew is an excellent antithesis to good leadership. I have seen too much 'bad' leadership in organizations and truly wish that all leaders diligently sought to undo Marduk's advice in their own lives and in the lives of the employees they are charged to develop."

--Bruce E. Winston, Regent University