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Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business

Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business

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There is a competitive advantage out there, arguably more powerful than any other. Is it superior strategy? Faster innovation? Smarter employees? No, New York Times best-selling author, Patrick Lencioni, argues that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre ones has little to do with what they know and how smart they are and more to do with how healthy they are. In this book, Lencioni brings together his vast experience and many of the themes cultivated in his other best-selling books and delivers a first: a cohesive and comprehensive exploration of the unique advantage organizational health provides.

Simply put, an organization is healthy when it is whole, consistent and complete, when its management, operations and culture are unified. Healthy organizations outperform their counterparts, are free of politics and confusion and provide an environment where star performers never want to leave. Lencioni's first non-fiction book provides leaders with a groundbreaking, approachable model for achieving organizational health--complete with stories, tips and anecdotes from his experiences consulting to some of the nation's leading organizations. In this age of informational ubiquity and nano-second change, it is no longer enough to build a competitive advantage based on intelligence alone. The Advantage provides a foundational construct for conducting business in a new way--one that maximizes human potential and aligns the organization around a common set of principles.

Anxious Church, Anxious People: How to Lead Change in an Age of Anxiety

Anxious Church, Anxious People: How to Lead Change in an Age of Anxiety

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The key to effective church leadership is the ability to be a non-anxious presence.

This is not a technique. It is a way of being. It is deceptively simple, but tremendously difficult. Yet, if you are willing to take the journey, you can lead change in even the most challenging contexts.

Read this book and you will understand:

  • The process that keeps churches anxious and stuck.
  • How leadership through self-differentiation gets churches unstuck.
  • How to develop as a non-anxious presence so you can lead change anywhere, but especially in an anxious church.
  • Anxious Church, Anxious People is based on a family systems approach to congregational leadership. If you are willing to learn more about yourself and your family of origin, you can learn to be a non-anxious presence. If you have tried everything else and realize that you cannot change others, but can only change yourself, this book can help you. It makes family systems concepts accessible and practical through the use of examples from personal experience.

    The author has used this approach to leadership in his 26 years of ministry as a pastor, board chair and ministry executive. It has enabled him to lead significant change in the local church, a regional ministry and a denominational professional association. He has been teaching, mentoring and coaching congregational leaders for the last 15 years to help them to do the same.

    Befriend: Create Belonging in an Age of Judgment, Isolation, and Fear

    Befriend: Create Belonging in an Age of Judgment, Isolation, and Fear

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    2017 ECPA Christian Book Award Finalist (Faith and Culture category)
    Is real friendship too risky?
    We live in a world where real friendship is hard to find. Suspicious of others and insecure about ourselves, we retreat into the safety of our small, self-made worlds. Now more than ever, it's easy to avoid people with whom we disagree or whose life experiences don't mirror our own. Safe among like-minded peers and digital "friends," we really don't have to engage with those who can challenge and enhance our limited perspectives. Tragically, even the church can become a place that minimizes diversity and reinforces isolation.

    Jesus models a much richer vision of friendship. Scott Sauls, pastor and teacher, invites you to see the breadth of Christ's love in this book, BeFriend. Join Scott on this journey through twenty-one meditations to inspire actively pursuing God's love through expanding your circle of friends.

    Scott has met too many people whose first impulse is to fence off their lives with relational barriers that only end up starving their own souls.

    Yes, it's true: Real friendship is costly. Love does make us vulnerable. But without risk, our lives will remain impoverished.

    Join Scott in BeFriend as he summons you toward diverse friendship that can enrich your life and, in the process, reveal a better version of yourself.









    Blank Slate: Write Your Own Rules for a 22nd-Century Church Movement

    Blank Slate: Write Your Own Rules for a 22nd-Century Church Movement

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    The church must get "unstuck" from its current context in order to address the context of younger generations; otherwise, it will not be relevant to younger people and will die with the older generations. As an example, a letter from the Younger Generations to Baby Boomers: Dear Baby Boomers, Thank you for all you've done, but I don't want your church. I want you, our relationship, our engagement, but not your church structure and outdated assumptions. Signed, The Younger Generations Blank Slate guides leaders to envision, and actually design, the future church. The authors start by describing each generational group currently living in the US, helping readers understand the varied context of people in every age group. Next, they explore five innovative secular organizations, drawing sharp lessons for the church. The last section includes a seven-step process for ministry leaders to engage current and upcoming generations. This book, with questions for individual and group reflection in each chapter, is a powerful planning tool for ministry teams. "In a time when so many of us want a blueprint for how to do ministry in a rapidly changing world, McIntosh, Smothers, and Smothers hand us a pencil and tell us to draw it ourselves. God has entrusted us to be the designers and visionaries for a new way. Blank Slate is the guide that you and your team need to design a new future together." -Jacob Armstrong, pastor, Providence Church, Mt. Juliet, TN
    Breaking the Color Barrier: A Vision for Church Growth Through Racial Reconciliation

    Breaking the Color Barrier: A Vision for Church Growth Through Racial Reconciliation

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    America is more diverse than ever and the Church should embrace such a gift. This hope-filled and prophetic book seeks to answer the question, "Why does racial reconciliation matter in American Christianity today?" It is a new vision for the Church. Murriel provides a snapshot of history that highlights one of the Church's greatest challenges and uplifts a Christ-centered way forward that all pastors, laity, students, and civic leaders should apply to promote racial reconciliation in American Christian Life as communities become more diverse. Breaking the Color Barrier is a thoughtful and insightful guide to help God's people move beyond the divisive issues associated with race to a more engaging reality of progressing the Kingdom of God. Copyright 2015 Redd House Publishers, LLC
    Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People

    Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People

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    Do you feel awkward at networking events? Do you wonder what your date really thinks of you? Do you wish you could decode people? You need to learn the science of people.

    As a human behavior hacker, Vanessa Van Edwards created a research lab to study the hidden forces that drive us. And she's cracked the code. In Captivate, she shares shortcuts, systems, and secrets for taking charge of your interactions at work, at home, and in any social situation. These aren't the people skills you learned in school. This is the first comprehensive, science backed, real life manual on how to captivate anyone--and a completely new approach to building connections.

    Just like knowing the formulas to use in a chemistry lab, or the right programming language to build an app, Captivate provides simple ways to solve people problems. You'll learn, for example...

    - How to work a room: Every party, networking event, and social situation has a predictable map. Discover the sweet spot for making the most connections.
    - How to read faces: It's easier than you think to speed-read facial expressions and use them to predict people's emotions.
    - How to talk to anyone: Every conversation can be memorable--once you learn how certain words generate the pleasure hormone dopamine in listeners.

    When you understand the laws of human behavior, your influence, impact, and income will increase significantly. What's more, you will improve your interpersonal intelligence, make a killer first impression, and build rapport quickly and authentically in any situation--negotiations, interviews, parties, and pitches. You'll never interact the same way again.

    Church Refugees: Sociologists Reveal Why People Are Done with Church But Not Their Faith

    Church Refugees: Sociologists Reveal Why People Are Done with Church But Not Their Faith

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    As millions of church members fall into inactivity each year, they've probably also started skipping church on Sunday.

    We need answers--not statistics. We need to understand and hear from people who are leaving church so we can find a way to turn around the trend.

    This book uses in-depth sociological research to get to the heart of the issue. The data is collected from interviews with real people about why they left and who they really are. These aren't the "nones" who have no religious affiliation. They're the "dones" who've been faithfully serving in local churches for years. This is their story.
    Clarity Spiral: The 4 Break-Thru Practices to Find the One Thing You're Called to Do

    Clarity Spiral: The 4 Break-Thru Practices to Find the One Thing You're Called to Do

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    You can discover the dream God has for you. And you can proactively design a powerful life; one that releases all of the potential God put inside of you.
    Co-Active Coaching: Changing Business, Transforming Lives

    Co-Active Coaching: Changing Business, Transforming Lives

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    THE FULLY REVISED THIRD EDITION OF THE BOOK THAT CHANGED THE COACHING FIELD FOREVERNEW 4TH EDITION released in JULY 2018!

    This third edition includes fresh coaching examples, the latest in coaching terminology and an expanded, web-based 'Coach's Toolkit'.

    Used as the definitive resource in dozens of professional development programs, Co-Active Coaching teaches the transformative communication process that allows individuals from all levels of an organization - from students to teachers, and direct reports to managers - to build strong, collaborative relationships.

    Come Back Effect: How Hospitality Can Compel Your Church's Guests to Return

    Come Back Effect: How Hospitality Can Compel Your Church's Guests to Return

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    The key to growth as a church, youth ministry, or a business is getting first-time guests to come back. And as any good manager of a hotel, a store, a restaurant, or an attraction knows, the key to getting guests to come back is not actually the rooms or the product or the food itself; it's how guests feel when they're there. It's about hospitality. No matter how much effort and time we spend on excellence--stirring worship time, inspiring sermons, a good coffee blend in the foyer--what our guests really want when they come to our churches is to feel welcome, comfortable, and understood.

    Written by a church consultant and a hospitality expert, The Come Back Effect shows church, ministry, and even business leaders the secret to helping a first-time guest return again and again. Through an engaging, story-driven approach, they explain how service and hospitality are two different things, show how Jesus practiced hospitality, and invite leaders to develop and implement changes that lead to repeat visits and, eventually, to sustained growth.