Ultimately, success--whether in business, family, church, athletic teams, or any other organization--is entirely dependent on teamwork. But how does one build that team?Leadership expert and bestselling author John C. Maxwell knows that building and maintaining a successful team is no simple task. Even people who have taken their teams to the highest level in their field have difficulty re-creating what accounted for their successes. In his practical, down-to-earth style, Maxwell shares the vital principles of team building that are necessary for success in any type of organization.In The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork, Dr. Maxwell shows how:The Law of High Morale inspired a 50-year-old man who couldn't even swim to train for the toughest triathlon in the world;The Law of the Big Picture prompted a former US president to travel across the country by bus, sleep in a basement, and do manual labor;Playing by The Law of the Scoreboard enabled one web-based company to keep growing and make money while thousands of other Internet businesses failed;Ignoring The Law of the Price Tag caused one of the world's largest retailers to close its doors after 128 years in business;And much more!Building a successful team has plagued leaders since the beginning of time. Is the key a strong work ethic? Is it “chemistry”? The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork will empower you--whether coach or player, teacher or student, CEO or non-profit volunteer--with the “how-tos“ and attitudes for building a successful team.

    The findings will surprise many readers and, quite frankly, upset others.The ChallengeBuilt to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? The StudyFor years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great?The StandardsUsing tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world's greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck. The ComparisonsThe research team contrasted the good-to-great companies with a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to make the leap from good to great. What was different? Why did one set of companies become truly great performers while the other set remained only good? The FindingsThe findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. The findings include:Level 5 Leaders: The research team was shocked to discover the type of leadership required to achieve greatness.The Hedgehog Concept (Simplicity within the Three Circles): To go from good to great requires transcending the curse of competence.A Culture of Discipline: When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great results. Technology Accelerators: Good-to-great companies think differently about the role of technology.The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Those who launch radical change programs and wrenching restructurings will almost certainly fail to make the leap.

    Tedlow, examines seven great CEOs who successfully managed cutting-edge technology and formed enduring corporate empires.With the depth and clarity of a master, Tedlow illuminates the minds, lives and strategies behind the legendary successes of our times:. George Eastman and his invention of the Kodak camera;. Thomas Watson of IBM;. Henry Ford and his automobile;. Charles Revson and his use of television advertising to drive massive sales for Revlon;. Robert N. Noyce, co-inventor of the integrated circuit and founder of Intel;. Andrew Carnegie and his steel empire;. Sam Walton and his unprecedented retail machine, Wal-Mart.

    As a Christian leader, you will face a series of tests on your spiritual journey, and sometimes you'll come up against setbacks. In these four sections, Joyce Meyer will help you overcome any leadership challenges you're facing:Part 1: Preparation for LeadershipPart 2: The Heart of a LeaderPart 3: Testing the Heart of a LeaderPart 4: The Requirements of LeadershipWith gentle encouragement and valuable advice, this practical guide is perfect for anyone who is looking to grow in faith and spirit -- and be a stronger leader in the ministry and secular businesses.

    Clear guidance is given on how leaders can make a positive impact on the people and organizations they are currently leading.

    Tozer's writings, focusing on the person of God and our response to Him.

    The discussion applies to churches of various sizes, from daughter works and home missions efforts to assemblies with a regular attendance of over 500.

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    Dr. Gary R. Collins takes the successful principles of coachingand gives them a God-centered application. Broader in scope thaneither mentoring or discipling,Christian Coachinghelps people find God?s vision for their lives andlearn to live accordingly through stories, insights, andinterviews.

    Dever unfolds the biblical blueprint to find a leadership structure that blesses churches with peace, but doesn't buckle under the pressures of corporate life.

    This book will show you the common mistakes people make without realizing it; what separates successful people from unsccessful ones; how to see people as God does; and how to change the way you think. You are just an attitude away from a fantastic life!

    

    Maxwell breaks down the personal characteristics necessary for becoming an effective team player.Leadership expert John C. Maxwell follows his bestselling The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork with this powerfully succinct companion book. Stating that great team players are developed from the inside out, Maxwell identifies the seventeen qualities that make up an in-demand team player while outlining how to embody those qualities.In The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player, Maxwell outlines the successes of team players who have been:Intentional – making every action count toward a long-term goalRelational – focused on othersSelfless – willing to take a subordinate role for the sake of the teamTenacious – hardworking and optimistic in the face of setbacksThis instructional resource shows how these qualities, among many others, impact the team and its success. If you want to have a better team, you have to develop better players.The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player is not feel-good platitudes and abstract thinking, but concrete actions designed to improve the value of every team player.

    But what of the darkness and poverty that enslave entire cultures, even nations? Have Christians underestimated the power of God's truth to transform entire societies? In Discipling Nations, Darrow Miller builds a powerful and convincing thesis that God's truth not only breaks the spiritual bonds of sin and death but can free whole societies from deception and poverty. Discipling Nations will challenge, reenergize, and reequip Christians everywhere who labor to see "His kingdom come, His will be done."

    Featuring never-before-published interviews from more than 50 of the world's greatest female role models, "Hard Won Wisdom" offers a practical program for living a bolder and more fulfilling life.

    Newly promoted but struggling young executive Debbie Brewster asks her mentor the one question she desperately needs answered: ''What is the secret of great leaders?'' His reply - ''great leaders serve'' - flummoxes her, but over time he reveals the five fundamental ways that leaders succeed through service. Along the way she learns: � [ Why great leaders seem preoccupied with the future � [ How people on the team ultimately determine your success or failure � [ What three arenas require continuous improvement � [ Why true success in leadership has two essential components � [ How to knowingly strengthen - or unwittingly destroy - leadership credibility. The tenth anniversary edition includes a leadership self - assessment so readers can measure to what extent they lead by serving and where they can improve. The authors also have added answers to the most frequently asked questions about how to apply the SERVE model in the real world. As practical as it is uplifting, The Secret shares Blanchard's and Miller's wisdom about leadership in a form that anyone can easily understand and implement. This book will benefit not only those who read it but also the people who look to them for guidance and the organizations they serve.

    -- Profiles the lives and careers of women whose accomplishments have contributed to our society-- Fully illustrated with photographs and paintings

    When he died of cancer on April 28, 1993, after a long, heroic, and very public struggle, his spirit, vibrancy, dreams and passions did not die with him; they live on in the people he touched. Looking at the lives through the eyes of the people who loved him most, The Gifts of Jimmy V reveals the heart of Jim Valvano present in them all. Through dozens of interviews with family, friends, coaches, players, and colleagues, authors Valvano and Hill not only reconstruct the life of this unusual man, but also capture the essence of his unique ability to lead, galvanize, inspire, and motivate others.

    Starting with this frank assessment of the current church, Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch present an alternative model for

    

    Often, it seems like the conflict between short-term business strategies and their desire to "do the right thing" pull them in opposite directions.In God Is My CEO, readers will learn how to:Develop their God-given talents and skills, while developing a spiritual centerGain ideas and encouragement through real-life stories of successful business leaders who have faced the same challengesLearn to apply a practical daily plan to overcome the toughest business issuesFocus their energies and thoughts on moving forward with a sense of purposeMany business leaders struggle with the dilemma of being successful and living a life with purpose. God Is My CEO offers a practical and inspirational source of guidance for achieving a balanced and accomplished life.

    Based on Blanchard's and Hodges' Faith Walk seminars, business leaders come to realize that teams are more powerful than the sum of the individuals and to recognize their people as appreciating assets.Servant Leader summarizes the Four Dimensions of Leadership:the head (leadership assumptions and methods)the hands (application and leadership behavior)the heart (edging God out)the habits (solitude, prayer, study of scripture, unconditional love, etc.)The thousands who have attended his seminars witnessed the transforming power of this unconventional approach. Readers seeking to grow as leaders and business executives will find Servant Leader nothing short of life-changing.

    Here is a bold adventurer, an insatiable hunter, an audacious politician, and also a daddy who loved to play with toys on the floor of the White House. Roosevelt simply adored his children, four of whom were boys, each of whom he was intent on turning into a man of action. He once commented that his own father was the greatest man he ever knew. His commitment to being the same example for his sons was evident not only in the remarkable globe-trotting adventures on which they accompanied him, but also in the copious letters that he wrote to them, many of which communicated deep truths about manhood, Christianity, and courage. Although the message affected each boy differently, Roosevelt s words are fascinating clues into the life of a man who vigorously sought to balance leadership and fatherhood."

    These caliphs, known collectively as the Four Rightly Guided Caliphs, led the Islamic world and greatly expanded its territory for the next 29 years.

    This book looks at the hidden forces keeping most of us trying to please the boss and not reaching our own goals. It is a book designed to change ones way of thinking. Most of us are either slaves or prisoners. Do you think of freedom or simply wish to be safe? The answer is in this book.

    Now, John Warden- architect of the Desert Storm air campaign- and his partner, organizational consultant Leland Russell, have applied this proven approach to success to another kind of intense competition: the fast-changing world of 21st century business.The system-Prometheus-is a mindset and a method for rapid, decisive strategic action. Its essence is simple: think strategically, focus sharply and more quickly. Leaders and managers of big cap, mid-cap and startup companies, in high-tech finance, health care, and many other industries, have successfully applied Prometheus to meet the same kinds of challenges that you face.

    Through innovative perspectives and conversational “voice,” it guides readers through self-discovery, describes resources available to help pursue goals, and shows readers how to think like a successful person.

    Barry R. McCaffrey, USA (Ret.)- Contributors include Gen. Gordon Sullivan, former U.S. Army Chief of Staff; Conrad Crane; Fred KaganThis bold, wide-ranging collection brings together some of the most noted military minds, past and present, to examine the crucial role of leadership in combat. Written while Christopher Kolenda was a faculty member in the history department at West Point, it covers both classic and modern concepts of leadership and uses case studies from Alexander the Great through World War II to illustrate principles of leadership in concrete historical contexts.

    Consciously or unconsciously, effective leaders arouse and direct the motivational energy that compels people to action. This book explains how specific leadership practices shape the dimensions of organizational climate and how different climates influence people's energies and efforts. Stringer discusses both the direct and indirect aspects of leadership: how the "memory" or "shadow" of a leader creates a certain atmosphere or climate within an organization, and how this climate impacts motivation. Leadership is too often explained in terms of the leader's direct face-to-face impact on people. This book describes and validates the less dramatic but more lasting impact that certain leadership practices have on people's thoughts, feelings, and behavior. Filled with examples showing how leaders can manage performance by using organizational climate, this book attempts to be a "cloud chamber" for the practice of leadership--it traces the normally unseen, but very real, motivational influences that leaders exert when they move through an organization. For individuals looking for tools they can immediately use to improve their leadership effectiveness and organizational performance.

    In this classic text Freud offered an analysis of the roots of group identity, of the contagions of panic and fanaticism, and of the submission of the individual to the leader that only gained cogency with each passing decade of the troubled twentieth century. And Freud's insights have become more relevant still in the aftermath of the shattering events of September 11, 2001.Following an introduction to the volume by Ethel Spector Person and a summary and abridgement of Freud's text by John Kerr, the contributors to this volume - Didier Anzieu, Robert Caper, Abraham Zeleznik, Andre Haynal, Ernst Falzeder, Yolanda Gampel, and Claudio Laks Eisirik - provide commentaries on Freud's work, explicating the multiple ways in which Freud's insights continue to illuminate the irrational dynamics to which all groups, including psychoanalytic institutions, are prey. Serving as both an introduction to, and an elegant expansion of, Freud's texts, this volume demonstrates the role of psychoanalytic hypotheses in obtaining deeper insight into the tectonic shifts in group psychology underlying today's mass society.

    Book after book discusses methods of getting more people to attend worship services. But author Kirk Hadaway thinks an important part of the conversation is missing -- how can churches, in spite of the decline, remain engaged in the mission of transforming lives?Behold, I Do a New Thing does not offer easy solutions but encourages readers to rethink the elements of church communities, including worship and leader models. Looking at churches in new ways and holding new expectations will allow church leadership to guide congregations in the journey where transformation and renewal is constant and embraced.This is an invaluable book for pastors and lay leaders.

    - Manfred Kets de Vries Organizations are like automobiles. They don't run themselves, except downhill. Leadership now, requires very different behavior from the leadership tradition we are used to. It requires leaders who speak to the collective imagination of their people, co-opting them to join in the business journey; leaders who are able to motivate people to full commitment and have them make that extra effort. It's all about human behavior. It's about understanding the way people and organizations behave, about creating relationships, about building commitment, and about adapting your behavior to lead in a creative and motivating way. So, ask yourself what you're doing about the leadership factor. How do you execute your own leadership style? Whether you work on the shop floor or have a corner office on the top floor of a shimmering skyscraper, what have you done today to be more effective as a leader? There are no quick answers to leadership questions, and there are no eas

    Enter the Worship Circle helps fill that void. The book is an experiential, modern journey into the true essence of worship, and throughout it, author Ben Pasley (of alterna-folk duo 100 Portraits), offers insight that goes far beyond any basic word study. Artists, pastors, seekers and mature believers will all love the unconventional, visionary approach this book takes to discovering the mystery of God through the mystical activity of worship. It is filled with allegory, suspense and coffee beans. Enter the Worship Circle will change how you view worship---and how you view intimacy with God.

    

    Her latest book, Working Woman's Art of War is the book of strategy that allows the 21st Century working woman to have it all. She interprets timeless, Eastern philosophy derived from the 2,500 year-old Chinese classic, Sun Tzu's Art of War, into practical everyday Western strategies for making decisions and creating results, showing women how to easily get ahead whether their sights are set on being a corporate CEO, entrepreneur, teacher, stock broker, astronaut or a good mother.Working Woman's Art of War is about the Art, not the War!In order for women to have all that they want -- the right to choose to wear glass slippers and/or combat boots -- they need to have the courage to learn how to think like effective strategists and warriors. This ancient warrior philosophy is the premier vehicle for mastering strategic thinking in the corporate world as well as daily life.You will learn: What the difference is between the Eastern and Western art of war strategies.What the five essential elements of victory are according to Sun Tzu's Art of War.Turning your liabilities into assets.How to swing your blue moments into opportunities.Utilizing the feminine and masculine energies with equal proficiency to achieve your goals.What the difference is between a trophy wife and the working woman.When to wear Nike shoes, glass slippers or combat boots in the corporateoffice.How to overcome other women's professional jealousy.Converting sexuality into advantages.Channeling the rage of sexual harassment for advancement.How you can embrace your family and career at the same time.The most effective tool for overcoming gender discrimination.Why it is so important for working women to possess style as well as substance.What the strategies are for New Feminism's Battle and why.Why Sun Tzu said, Know thyself, know thy opponents -- One hundred battles, one hundred victories.

    The Art of Team Coaching focuses on the coaching of team sports, particularly those that involve rapid movement such as soccer, rugby, hockey, baseball, But anyone set the task of organising and motivating others to achieve a common purpose will find invaluable tips and suggestions.

    This sports leadership bestseller from legendary Florida State University football coach Bowden is now available in paperback, including a new section that addresses his team's challenging 2001 season.

    This book encourages readers to embrace creative thinking, question the accepted standard, and adopt a new philosophy toward identifying and solving problems. The book is designed to encourage people to believe in their ideas, and help teachers and corporate leaders motivate students and staff toward innovative thinking. About the Author: Michael McMillan is founder and creative director of McMillan Associates, a visual communications firm located outside Chicago, Illinois, USA. Committed to quality work and design innovation, McMillan Associates represents a roster of domestic and international clients. The firm has been recognized for leadership in design by nearly every major graphic arts authority, including AIGA, Communication Arts, HOW magazine, Print magazine, The Black Book, Printing Industries of Illinois, and Apex.

    Evangelize the world quickly by planting millions of house churches every-where - this book tells you how. Earlier editions of this book have already gone around the world. We are thrilled to be able to publish this new, revised edition.

    They provide aradical new approach to your work-a-day life that will bring truemeaning and power to your work.Freedom and Accountability at Work offers you the information youneed to: * Gain strength and meaning by transforming your thinking on howyou view anxiety, doubt, death, and guilt * Find new ways to bring spiritual and ethical values into yourworkplace * Engage in profound change that will help you overcome cynicismthat comes from superficial change * Replace your loss of organizational loyalty and safety with asense of freedom and accountabilityBoth Koestenbaum and Block are such passionate men who bringtogether what we all seek in our work life-meaning, insight, andhumanness. Bless them for this book. --Joyce DeShano, board chair, Ascension Health

    Air Force major general defines the eight basic principles from battlefield experience that can be translated into business careers to achieve extraordinary success.

    The book examines this global problem from multiple perspectives.

    But how do congregations enter the wilderness of ministry with these new generations when many of those in the entourage do not appreciate the trip? In contrast to many writers about church growth, Rendle works with three important observations: (1) Most congregations are not "pure markets," discrete groups with uniform values and behaviors, that can be targeted to the exclusion of all other audiences; (2) Some of the differences and discomforts experienced in the congregation are based on the members' tenure, or length of membership, rather than their age; and (3) Leadership in congregations is not a matter of marketplace savvy but of spiritual authenticity in which we continue to shape our faith tradition to be heard and understood by a changing culture.

    This one-of-a-kind guidebook for teachers and administrators offers inspiration and opportunities for reflection in a unique and accessible new way.

    While every parish has its unique attributes and needs, there are some basic dynamics at work in moving a congregation through resistance and toward transformation. Lundblad focuses our attention on these dynamics as she describes a program of preaching meant to re-fashion a people. The steps include building a foundation of grace, re-imaging Jesus, naming and honoring the wounds of community members, naming and removing obstacles to change, describing alternative futures, and daring hope. The author addresses each of these themes separately in chapters that include a brief introduction, two sample sermons, and a conclusion. This book for preachers provides a model for transformation preaching.

    

    These young millionaires in the high-tech and business worlds are big news today, but like all inventors before them, their work is based on the work of their predecessors.On August 9, 1995, Marc Andreessen's personal net worth skyrocketed from a few thousand dollars to over $58 million. As one of the founders of Netscape, Andreesson led a revolution that has changed the way people communicate with one another and transformed the Internet into the fastest-growing communications network in human history.

    Fiand revisits this earlier work with the eyes and experience of ten years. In Living the Vision, Barbara Fiand mapped an agenda for nuns living with the reforms set forth by the Second Vatican Council. These reforms included relaxing the rules regarding dress and living arrangements. Today many nuns live in apartment-style convents and dress in secular clothing. In addition, many nuns have eschewed traditional roles such as teaching and missionary work in favor of more fulfilling careers in social action and spirituality. Many nuns today even run parishes where no priest is available. In this new edition the reader will find three added Appendices, but by far the most revision and expansion will be found in chapter 4. The questions raised there are provocative and may be disturbing to some.

    By providing sets of propositions and questions that illuminate narratives of political events, this book helps anyone interested in struggles for power understand politics and political leaders in their own and in other cultures. The method can be used to make sense of power struggles in peasant villages, electoral and presidential maneuvering in the United States, the confusions of post-Soviet Eastern Europe, or Gandhi's morality deployed as a weapon to drive the British out of India.

    He investigates the ideal personality criteria of political leaders for both ideal and real politics--a combination of the values and ethics of Confucian, Daoist, and Legalist traditions.While addressing complementary roles of Chinese schools of thought in which ideal personality is grounded, Guo identifies five characteristics of an ideal political leader, traces their evolution, and then analyzes these characteristics as they influence ideal personality of political leaders. As modeled by a paragon of combining the Confucian noble man, the Daoist sage or authentic person, and the Legalist enlightened leader, Chinese political leaders pursue humaneness, ritualism, moralism, and follow naturalism in order to seek political survival and advancement against the radical development of Confucian political zealousness. He emphasizes the philosophical and historical conditions that facilitate the production of agency in an effort to understand how the legacy continues. A provocative analysis that will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and policy makers involved with Chinese politics, history, and philosophy.

    William Chadwick explores the hidden problems when people join one church after leaving another, a phenomenon he refers to as stealing sheep.

    This small but comprehensive sample reveals the outstanding characteristics of appreciative leaders and their predominant behavioral attributes. The ways appreciative leaders engage in their daily practices are outlined in detail. "This is a landmark book, " according to Jane Watkins, an originator of Appreciative Inquiry. "It is an invaluable contribution to the literature that addresses the critically important question: What kinds of leaders will shape the radically different organizations called for by our constantly changing environment?" Appreciative Inquiry leader, David Cooperrider writes, "Appreciative modes of management may be to our new self-organizing systems what deficit or problem-oriented methods have been to command-and -control bureaucracies."

    Yet his faith in God sustained him throughout those trying times and he has been an inspiration to his men and his many comrades, his friends, and his family.Awarded more than 200 medals and awards, among them the Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Stars, Bronze Stars, Purple Hearts, and the Legion of Merit, Weston survived his nearly three decades of service, much of the time spent on battlefields, and returned home, his faith stronger than ever. His unwavering devotion to his faith and to his country earned him a larger-than-life reputation and undying devotion from his men, even to this day.