Although leadership is the hot topic on conference agendas and book tours, most people who find themselves in positions of leadership have little or no training for the role. They simply continue to make the same old mistakes. With additional and newly updated material, this leadership classic reveals the most common errors that leaders consistently make-regardless of training or age-and the way to stop these bad habits from undermining their positive...

A moving story, told in Ken Blanchard's appealing parable style, of how a local church can be either a blessing or a curse to their community.The Most Loving Place in Town is the story of two men, a disillusioned church elder and a gifted young pastor, who recognize that their church has lost sight of its number one priority: loving God and each other. They begin a search, independently at first, to recapture their lost love and then together lead...

Unemployment is a daunting concern for people all across the nation. Layoffs and corporate downsizing threatens jobs now more than ever. FIRST HIRED, LAST FIRED shows how to discover simple secrets from an ancient text that can make anyone irreplaceable. Today's employees face terror and stress at the prospect of losing their jobs, and finding new ones. The global climate reeks of confusion, fear, anxiety, and competition while people clamber for...

Gary Chapman, autor de numerosos éxitos de venta, ha escrito junto a Paul White Los cinco lenguajes del aprecio en el trabajo. Este extenso proyecto de cuatro años de elaboración presenta el concepto de los cinco lenguajes del amor en las relaciones laborales. Así como los individuos tienen un lenguaje de amor primario en las relaciones familiares, de igual modo tienen un lenguaje de aprecio primario en el lugar de trabajo. Supervisores, empleados...

Based on the life and legacy of Moses, Hans presents ten scriptural principles that can revolutionize your business, your ministry, even your life. The life of Moses provides a master study on what it means to be an effective leader. Consider his pedigree: Answered the call to do something beyond his means, stood his ground before kings, led millions of people on a journey across rivers and through deserts. Moses did this all with a dogged persistence...

Writing about oneself can be a self-centered experience. Yet there is something therapeutic and responsible in the act of engaging in reflection about one's life. As I write these words, I am living in the eighth decade of life and I am forced to self-examination as the driving forces of achievement diminish into the question, "Was what I did with my life worth the struggles and hard work to make a difference in the world in which I lived?" My...

Whether you are a career serviceman or woman, or serving for a term, you and your family face many hardships that meet you head-on. Your mental, spiritual, and physical state will be challenged, and you will incur many difficulties that you must overcome. Some of the challenges also come from the communities and countries you serve in. While serving, your faith in God may be questioned and your attitude toward your faith could be compromised by a...

In today's tough business climate, leaders are often driven by the bottom line. But focusing on results can devalue the most critical part of success: Your team. So how can we shift our perspective from profits to people? Simple. We redefine what it means to lead. This is a revolutionary and biblical guide to the art of leadership. Developed by renowned leadership coach and author LeRoy Eims, Be A Motivational Leader provides an insightful, practical...

In the most practical, humorous, and fast-moving chapters you've ever read on business and nonprofit leadership and management, this in-the-trenches management expert presents his 20 Management Buckets System for understanding and organizing your important mission. "When you don't know what you don't know," says John Pearson, "the Law of Unintended Consequences will derail you every time." Based on Pearson's 48-hour Management Buckets Workshop Experience,...

If you know God loves your work, you can-as Paul put it-"work at it with all your heart." But too often even Christians find it hard to engage fully with what occupies them for hours every day. This book will help you relate your work to God's eternal kingdom purposes. Here you will find not just one or two but several biblical reasons for getting up and going to work. During your lifetime you will spend, perhaps, 100,000 hours working in paid or...