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The ICETE Programme for Academic Leadership (IPAL) was officially established in 2010 and arose out of the need to provide training to theological institutions in different regions of the world. IPAL provides a three-year cycle of four-day seminars for the professional development of evangelical academic leaders to help institutions in their pursuit of quality and excellence. This publication is the first of three volumes intended to accompany and...
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Leadership networking is not about collecting business cards or schmoozing. It's about building relationships and making alliances in service of others and in service of your organization's work and goals. This book will show you how to enhance your networks and become effective at leadership networking. By seeing networking as an integral part of your role as a leader and by taking action to develop and nurture related skills, you create benefits...
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This new book in Alban's Harvesting the Learnings Series gathers the collected wisdom of over 10 years of Alban research and reflection on what it means to be a leader in a congregation, how our perceptions of leadership are changing, and exciting new directions for leadership in the future. With pieces by such diverse church leaders as Graham Standish, Diana Butler Bass, Jeffrey Jones, Donna Schaper, Gil Rendle, Ann Svennungsen, Mark Lau Branson,...
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Leadership for Success is intended for a wide cross-section of educators, policymakers, educational planners, parents and the general readers who would like to learn how high-performing principals run schools effectively. The inspiring stories from seventeen seasoned professionals along with the supporting pieces by the editors will resonate with current principals, and educators across the spectrum will appreciate the experiences shared in this volume.
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Applies a variety of scholarly approaches to analyze the long-term impact of President Obama as a leader and policymaker.
Historic, intriguing, and important in so many ways, the Obama presidency will be studied by scholars and students for years to come. With the rise in hyper-partisanship, legislative gridlock, political dysfunction, "fake news," and other negative trends, it is imperative that academicians weigh in with a rigorous assessment of...
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Narrative Leadership: Rediscovering the Life-Giving Nature of Stories
Congregations magazine, Winter 2008, Volume 34, Number 1.
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INFOCUS: Reclaiming the Story: Narrative Leadership in Ministry - Alban research associate Larry Golemon explores how reclaiming the power of biblical, personal, and communal stories can help transform our lives, our congregations, and even the wider social fabric
Care-Full Listening - Mary Clark Moschella,...
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BECOME THE LEADER YOU WANT TO BE The NIV Once-A-Day 30 Days to Authentic Christian Leadership ebook helps you develop a daily Bible reading habit centered on the topic of leadership. The path to true, biblically-based leadership and success comes through knowing and understanding the principals of authentic leadership laid out in the Bible. This 30-day reading guide will give you a head start on implementing these principals in your daily life. And,...
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A multi-author collaboration that shares inspiring stories about women who have chosen to lead from their heart and change the world.
What does it mean to be a Heart-centred Leader?
This book is a collection of stories for women, by women focused on inspiring purpose, vision and every courage.
Featuring real-life, relatable role-models from all walks of life, these women are leaders in entrepreneurialism, education, conscious living, innovation...
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Corporate Disasters: What Went Wrong and Why profiles the biggest corporate mistakes or misdeeds throughout history -- covering the people, the times, the decisions made. This volume covers Management and Leadership Failures. Each essay puts the business and its operators in the context of its own time, explaining the market, social, and technology forces at play, and each explores the key make-or-break decisions that led to disaster.
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Turn Ordinary Responsibility Into Extraordinary Leadership. Whether you were born with a talent for leadership or had leadership thrust upon you, the success of your business depends on you. With insights from over 20 contributors, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders, Entrepreneur Voices on Effective Leadership will help you: Define the leadership style that fits you best; Grow your business by inspiring your employees; Take initiative and lead effectively...
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The Leadership expert, John Maxwell, brings an in-depth look at God's laws for leaders and leadership. The content of the current Maxwell Leadership Bible is revised and updated to incorporate Maxwell's works since the first release of the Maxwell Leadership Bible. Features include: 2 New Laws - Law of Addition and the Law of Picture New major articles and new notes throughout the Bible that connect with the new Laws New notes that reflect Maxwell's...
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Living Our Story explores how good narrative work-the retrieval, construction, and performance of valued stories-takes place in ministry. Authors Larry A. Golemon, Lee Ramsey, N. Graham Standish, Tim Shapiro, Carol Johnson, Mike Mather, Niles Elliot Goldstein, and Diana Butler Bass examine this question from a variety of perspectives, including the role of the pastor or rabbi as narrative leader, the sacred and mundane stories that shape congregational...
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The Man Rochas Anayo Okorocha Governor Rochas Anayo Okorocha is the present governor of Imo State, Nigeria, and has been in the limelight of Nigerian politics for some time now. He seems to be a leader the Imo people and Nigerians as whole need at the moment. Nigeria needs leaders that have vision, charisma, strength, and indomitable will to succeed, leaders who are motivated to action and that can motivate others to embrace hard work. Many Imolites...
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Scores of books and articles have been written in the popular press and mainstream marketplace about leadership: who leaders are, what they do, and why they matter. Yet in academia, there is a dearth of rigorous research, journal articles, or doctoral programs focused on leadership as a discipline. Why do top business schools espouse mission statements that promise to "educate the leaders of the future"- yet fail to give leadership its intellectual...
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Collection of Black women's stories that show how leadership values are transmitted from mothers to daughters
Featuring the stories of fourteen Black women scholars, Black Womanist Leadership: Tracing the Motherline offers a culturally based model of Black women's leadership practices, and examines the mother-daughter transmission of these skills. The personal narratives fit into a storytelling tradition that reveals the ways Black mothers and women...
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Upward is a book every businesswoman, who dreams of holding a leadership position should read because it will answer questions such as...
• Do you wonder how to overcome challenges in the workplace that hold you back from your leadership goals?
• Do you wish you could ask current women in leadership how they did it?
The compilers of Upward, Simone E. Morris, and Bridgett McGowen-Hawkins, have done the footwork for you and have gotten the answers....
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The chapters collected in this book, prepared by a think tank of the Elijah Interfaith Academy, address the subject of religious leadership. The subject is of broad relevance in the training of religious leaders and in the practice of religious leadership. As such, it is also germane to religious thought, where reflections on religious leadership occupy an important place. What does it mean to be a religious leader in today's world? To what degree...
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Jewish organizational life is inundated with publications on organizational change and effective leadership, but from mutually exclusive sources: business and organizational studies, on the one hand; and Jewish studies, on the other. One addresses leadership but not the religious soul. The other speaks from its Jewish soul but is only secondarily engaged in the study of leadership. More Than Managing thoughtfully combines both to be immediately applicable...
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The first comprehensive resource for teaching spiritual leadership development in the twenty-first century-for all faith traditions. America is changing. Technology, social networking, global economics, immigration, migration and multiculturalism urge communities of faith to expand their vision of spiritual leadership and reflect on how leaders can better serve congregations and communities in the twenty-first century. In this multifaith, cross-cultural...
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