In these years of growth pains, elders and staff pushed back hard on Keller, who knew virtually nothing about the dynamics of management. “He went through a long, hard struggle with not being liked, where he was failing,” Katherine Alsdorf said of management struggles that continued for Keller into the mid-2000s. “That was painful and humbling, with a lot of his time spent on his knees in prayer.”52 Keller admitted as much himself in Every Good Endeavor, the book on work he coauthored with Alsdorf. “At times staff members have protested that my vision was outpacing my ability to lead it or
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