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Inspiring Generational Leadership: Your Guide to Design a Conscious Culture

Inspiring Generational Leadership: Your Guide to Design a Conscious Culture

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Inspiring Generational Leadership provides tools to create an ideal workplace for leaders and their organization that is passionately alive with ethical values and purpose.
Intentional Living: Choosing a Life That Matters

Intentional Living: Choosing a Life That Matters

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John C. Maxwell, #1 New York Times bestselling author, helps readers take the first steps to living a life that matters inIntentional Living.

We all have a longing to be significant. We want to make a contribution, to be a part of something noble and purposeful. But many people wrongly believe significance is unattainable. They worry that it's too big for them to achieve. That they have to have an amazing idea, be a certain age, have a lot of money, or be powerful or famous to make a real difference.

The good news is that none of those things is necessary for you to achieve significance and create a lasting legacy. The only thing you need to achieve significance is to be intentional. And to do that, all you need to do is start. You can't make an impact sitting still and doing nothing. Every major accomplishment that's ever been achieved started with a first step. Sometimes it's hard; other times it's easy, but no matter what, you have to do it if you want to get anywhere in life.

In Intentional Living, John Maxwell will help you take that first step, and the ones that follow, on your personal path through a life that matters.
Kaleidoscope Effect: What Emerging Generations Seek in Leaders

Kaleidoscope Effect: What Emerging Generations Seek in Leaders

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The Kaleidoscope Effect identifies the common leadership needs of emerging generations and provides church leaders practical "how-to" solutions for engaging and serving these generations.

Based on the research of author Scott Chrostek, this book dives deep into the character and leadership traits of both Millennials and Gen Z. Pastors, lay staff, and volunteers will learn how to steadily rotate their individual leadership skill sets while identifying common leadership needs that emerging generations crave.

The implementation of the ideas and principles found in this book will produce better leaders who will serve a greater number of people, resulting in the ability to cultivate and sustain attractive environments that ignite the imagination of emerging generations.
Killing Comparison: Reject the Lie You Aren't Good Enough and Live Confident in Who God Made You to Be

Killing Comparison: Reject the Lie You Aren't Good Enough and Live Confident in Who God Made You to Be

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It's time to leave behind the discontent of comparison and discover a free and joyful life. Join Pastor Nona Jones--who was recently featured on GMA3--as she gives you the tools you need to kill comparison once and for all.

Nearly all of us deal with the struggle of comparison and finding ourselves lacking. But there is a way to break free from internal and external messages communicating a lack of self-worth. It starts with identifying the basis of your urge to compare and ends with securing your identity to the unchanging confidence of God's love for you.

Nona Jones knows this journey all too well. Throughout her life and in her career--most recently as an executive for the world's largest social media company--Nona discovered that despite professional success, true confidence can only be achieved by defeating toxic comparison and securing our identity to God's approval alone.

Killing Comparison provides a fresh, biblically rooted perspective on an age-old human dilemma--the pressure to compare oneself to others--that the era of social media has exacerbated and heightened. This timely and necessary guide will help you:

  • Determine your true source of self-worth
  • Develop practical ways to conquer daily comparison
  • Learn how to control social media instead of letting it control you
  • Discover how to accomplish your dreams without comparing yourself at every turn
  • Identify the root cause leading you to compare your life to others

    • Through practical insight and down-to-earth encouragement, Nona helps you avoid the despair of comparison and pursue a free, joyful life.
    Leadership Directions from Moses: On the Way to the Promised Land

    Leadership Directions from Moses: On the Way to the Promised Land

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    Author Olu Brown shares principles from the story of Moses, to guide leaders through some of the most gut-wrenching situations they will face. Leadership Directions from Moses answers the question, 'How can I remain effective in answering my own call, when people around me--some of whom are trusted friends and colleagues--will not (or cannot) stay on the journey we've set out to complete? How can I keep moving forward, when the path suddenly becomes so difficult?' The book covers topics like how to help others leave gracefully, how not to be upended when others choose to leave, how to have difficult conversations, and how to find unexpected opportunity in the challenge of new vacancies. It is full of practical help, including examples from pastors and churches across the US. It is also filled with compassion and wisdom--a pastoral book for pastors facing this difficult, nuanced, and often-emotional topic.
    Leading Beyond the Walls

    Leading Beyond the Walls

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    Good pastoral leadership is not a "by the numbers" proposition. It is a matter of heart and soul, of devoting the whole self to the vision God gives for the congregation in which one serves. Yet neither is it purely intuitive; it requires hard, careful thinking about the directions and details of the path down which God calls. When Adam Hamilton became pastor of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection, its membership consisted of himself and his family. Ten years later the church averages between five and six thousand worshipers per weekend. Throughout this remarkable period, Hamilton learned many serious lessons about both the broad visions and the specific details of pastoral leadership. Bringing a depth of analytical skills often lacking in visionary leaders, in this book he goes beyond simply telling the story of Church of the Resurrection. He shares the questions that he learned to ask about the largely unchurched population to which Church of the Resurrection has reached out. Further, he demonstrates what he learned by listening to the answers to these questions, and how doing so has made possible a number of strategically crucial decisions the church has made. One of those crucial decisions was to make more traditional forms of worship and praise the center of the congregation's life. The result is that the example of Church of the Resurrection offers pastors and church leaders (especially those in mainline denominations) the realization that they need not completely change their liturgical and theological identity in order to reach out to the unchurched. Drawing on his own experience, as well as the detailed research on the characteristics of highly successful congregations he undertook during a sabbatical leave, Hamilton offers pastors and other church leaders solid, substantive thinking on steps that congregations can take to become centers of vibrant outreach and mission.
    Leveling Up: 12 Questions to Elevate Your Personal and Professional Development

    Leveling Up: 12 Questions to Elevate Your Personal and Professional Development

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    A Wall Street Journal Bestseller

    Experience explosive growth and success in your career and personal life by taking ownership of your personal development and understanding you don't need to know all the answers--but you do need to ask the right questions.

    Whether you're a leader of ten, a hundred, or many more, there's no one more important to lead than yourself. If you're not leading yourself, why would anyone else want to follow you? Ryan Leak speaks to thousands of leaders every year, and he has learned that the most successful people have taken ownership of their own development--and in order to realize your potential, you need to fully understand yourself.

    Being a great leader is not about having all the answers but asking the right questions--and that starts with careful introspection and inviting others to tell you what they see in you. Leveling Up helps you focus on the person you're becoming and think about the goals you want to accomplish. Some of the twelve strategic questions in this book include:

  • What is it like to be around me? (The Self-Awareness Question)
  • What credit can I give away? (The Team Player Question)
  • Who knows who I really am? (The Transparency Question)
  • What's my definition of success? (The Vision Question)
  • Do I have to do it all? (The Rest Question)
  • Am I enjoying it? (The Fun Question)

    • Leadership theory and business practices are important to study, but nothing is better than discovering the answers that will reveal who you are at your core, where you want to go in your career and life in general, and how you can influence and impact those around you.
    Maximizing the Midsize Church: Effective Leadership for Fruitful Mission and Ministry

    Maximizing the Midsize Church: Effective Leadership for Fruitful Mission and Ministry

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    Nearly one in four congregations in the United States is a midsize church (150-400 worshippers per week), and the midsize church has its own distinctive culture, dynamics, and characteristics. Drawing on years of research and pastoral ministry, David J. Peter has written a comprehensive handbook for pastors and staff who direct these churches.

    Peter covers the most important issues leaders encounter, including:
    - The important role they play in advancing the kingdom of God
    - Common cultural characteristics
    - Typical problems and productive solutions
    - Advantages over both small and large churches, and how to capitalize on them
    - Practices for developing healthy programs
    - The responsibilities of the pastor
    - Guidance for hiring staff and recruiting volunteers

    Pastors of midsize congregations will find effective resources and encouragement for successful leadership.
    Multiplying Church: The New Math for Starting New Churches

    Multiplying Church: The New Math for Starting New Churches

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    The Multiplying Church is a primer for pastors and lay leaders involved in, or wanting to learn about, the church multiplication groundswell in North America. It shows how multiplying churches should be a natural, regular function of every church to reach the 70 percent of Americans who have no meaningful church relationship. Detailing the stories and guiding principles of this dramatic growth, this guide offers insight on: - Why churches are multiplying in the East but not in the West - Keys to church multiplication - The missing link--pregnant mother churches - Antioch vs. Jerusalem: Which got it right? - What kind of churches should we start? - What is the end game of church planting? - How big does a church have to be to start multiplying churches? - Church planting movements or Jesus movements? Bob Roberts helps us return to an early-church model of multiplication where a single church sent laypeople out to plant other communities of believers.
    No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention

    No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention

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    The New York Times bestseller

    Shortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year

    Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings reveals for the first time the unorthodox culture behind one of the world's most innovative, imaginative, and successful companies

    There has never before been a company like Netflix. It has led nothing short of a revolution in the entertainment industries, generating billions of dollars in annual revenue while capturing the imaginations of hundreds of millions of people in over 190 countries. But to reach these great heights, Netflix, which launched in 1998 as an online DVD rental service, has had to reinvent itself over and over again. This type of unprecedented flexibility would have been impossible without the counterintuitive and radical management principles that cofounder Reed Hastings established from the very beginning. Hastings rejected the conventional wisdom under which other companies operate and defied tradition to instead build a culture focused on freedom and responsibility, one that has allowed Netflix to adapt and innovate as the needs of its members and the world have simultaneously transformed.

    Hastings set new standards, valuing people over process, emphasizing innovation over efficiency, and giving employees context, not controls. At Netflix, there are no vacation or expense policies. At Netflix, adequate performance gets a generous severance, and hard work is irrel­evant. At Netflix, you don't try to please your boss, you give candid feedback instead. At Netflix, employees don't need approval, and the company pays top of market. When Hastings and his team first devised these unorthodox principles, the implications were unknown and untested. But in just a short period, their methods led to unparalleled speed and boldness, as Netflix quickly became one of the most loved brands in the world.

    Here for the first time, Hastings and Erin Meyer, bestselling author of The Culture Map and one of the world's most influential business thinkers, dive deep into the controversial ideologies at the heart of the Netflix psyche, which have generated results that are the envy of the business world. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with current and past Netflix employees from around the globe and never-before-told stories of trial and error from Hastings's own career, No Rules Rules is the fascinating and untold account of the philosophy behind one of the world's most innovative, imaginative, and successful companies.
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