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Item transformational leadership(LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOCIATES, PUBLISHERS Mahwah, New Jersey, 2006-06-26) Bernard M. BassThere has been an explosion of interest in leadership. Each day stories appear in the newspapers discussing instances of successful leadership, as well as signifi cant failures of leadership. The stories usually concern world class and national politicians and statesmen, chief executive offi cers (CEO) of business and industry, directors of government and health care agencies, or generals and admirals. Sometimes the stories are of high-level leaders who are often in the spotlight. Carly Fiorina was the CEO of Hewlett Packard (HP) from 1999 until ousted in early 2005. As one of only a handful of women CEOs of Fortune 100 companies, she was often in the news, but no more so than when she led HP through the choppy waters of its merger with Compaq. Through a contentious fi ght to win over the support of HP’s board of directors, Fiorina kept her eyes on the vision of transforming HP into a “full service” technology company to rival IBM (Lashinsky, 2002). To make this a reality, Fiorina had to fi rst persuade board mem bers and inspire rank and fi le employees to buy in to her vision: Indeed, the day after the merger, she and Michael Capellas, the CEO of Compaq—now the No. 2 at HP—spent two hours simply marching through the one-mile-plus walkway that connects Compaq’s 17-building corporate headquarters in Houston, meeting and greeting as many people as they could. “She was like this massive fi gure,” recalls HP employee Antonio Humphreys, who worked for Compaq before the merger. “She took pictures and put on hats. The fact that she was willing to do that for the common folk—that earned her a lot of points.” (Lashinsky, 2002, p. 94) CEO Fiorina immediately focused on implementing the vision by empowering subordinates and providing an example of the hard work needed to transform an organization, its culture, and its trajectory.Item The World’s Most Powerful Leadership Principle: How to Become a Servant Leader(Crown Business, 2003-03-23) James C.HunterThese are not the best of times for leaders in corporate America. I write this at a time when CEO has become a four-letter word in many circles. We are in the midst of corporate scandals involving the likes of Adelphia, Arthur Andersen, Enron, Global Crossing, Tyco, and WorldCom. Just today I read a USA Today/CNN/Gallup Poll stating that seven in ten Americans say they distrust CEOs of large corporations. Fully eight in ten believe top executives of large companies will take “improper actions” to help themselves at the expense of their companies. Credibility for business leaders may well be at an all-time low. These corporate scandals leave me feeling ambivalent. On the one hand, I am pleased that corporate crooks are getting what they have coming and that the system is, at least in part, working. On the other hand, I feel sad for the many, many good, hardworking, and honest CEOs who are being painted with the same broad brush. Indeed, I have met far more honest CEOs than dishonest ones. As one pundit put it, saying all CEOs are crooks is like saying all priests are pedophiles.Item The 10 Commandments What They Mean, Why They Matter, and Why We Should Obey Them(Crossway, 2018-08-18) Kevin DeYoungThe Good News of Law And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.” Exodus 20:1–2 Exodus 20:1–2 introduces one of the most famous sections in the Bible— indeed, one of the most important pieces of religious literature in the whole world—the Ten Commandments. Oddly enough, they are never actually called the Ten Commandments. The Hebrew expression, which occurs three times in the Old Testament (Ex. 34:28; Deut. 4:13; 10:4), literally means “ten words.” This is why Exodus 20 is often referred to as the Decalogue, deka being the Greek word for “ten” and logos meaning “word.” These are the Ten Words that God gave the Israelites at Mount Sinai—and, I’ll argue, the Ten Words that God wants all of us to follow. Whatever we call them, the Ten Commandments are certainly commands —more than that for sure, but not less. The problem people have is not with what they’re called but with what they contain. Studying the Ten Commandments reveals the very heart of human rebellion: we don’t like God telling us what we can and cannot do.Item THE SHAPE of PRACTICAL THEOLOGY: Empowering Ministry with Theological Praxis(IVP Academic, 2001-01-11) Ray S. Andersonr > A^efore the theologian there was the storyteller. To say “Abraham, Isaac and Jacob” is not the recitation of a genealogical litany but the recapitulation of a theolog ical legacy To say “Abraham” calls to mind a personal encounter that demanded a walk of faith and a witness to divine promise. To say “Isaac” reiterates the gracious intervention of the God who brings forth the promised seed from Sara’s barren womb. To say “Jacob” distinguishes Rebekah’s revelation as divine Word from Isaac’s natural inclination to honor a cultural custom. These were all storytellers; it remained for Moses to become the first theologian. Following the encounter with God at the burning bush, and the revelation of the new name—Yahweh—Moses outlined the contours of the divine covenant of grace and mercy as revealed through the liberation of his people from Egypt and the journey toward the Promised Land. The inner logic of God’s saving grace became the “spine” to which the stories lodged as fragments in the oral tradition could be attached as a coherent pattern of inspired and written Word of God. God’s act of reconciliation is simultaneously God’s Word of revelation.Item The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerfull Lessons in Personal Change(Jossey-Bass, 2000-02-12) Stephen R. CoveyStephen Covey has written a remarkable book about the human condition, so elegantly written, so understanding of our embedded concerns, so useful for our organization and personal lives, that it's going to be my gift to everyone I know. --Warren Bennis, author of On Becoming a Leader I've never known any teacher or mentor on improving personal effectiveness to generate such an overwhelmingly positive reaction.... This book captures beautifully Stephen's philosophy of principles. I think anyone reading it will quickly understand the enormous reaction I and others have had to Dr. Covey's teachings.--John Pepper, President, Procter and Gamble Stephen Covey is an American Socrates, opening your mind to the 'permanent things' --values, family, relationships, communicating.--Brian Tracy, author of Psychology of Achievement Stephen R. Covey's book teaches with power, conviction, and feeling. Both the content and the methodology of these principles form a solid foundation for effective communication. As an educator, I think this book to be a significant addition to my library.Item The Servant as Leader(The Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership, 2008-08-28) Robert K. GreenleafSERVANT AND LEADER. Can these two roles be fused in one real person, in all levels of status or calling? If so, can that person live and be productive in the real world of the present? My sense of the present leads me to say yes to both questions. This paper is an attempt to explain why and to suggest how. The idea of The Servant as Leader came out of reading Herman Hesse’s Journey to the East. In this story we see a band of men on a mythical journey, probably also Hesse’s own journey. The central figure of the story is Leo who accompanies the party as the servant who does their menial chores, but who also sustains them with his spirit and his song. He is a person of extraordinary presence. All goes well until Leo disappears. Then the group falls into disarray and the journey is abandoned. They cannot make it without the servant Leo. The narrator, one of the party, after some years of wandering finds Leo and is taken into the Order that had sponsored the journey. There he discovers that Leo, whom he had known first as servant, was in fact the titular head of the Order, its guiding spirit, a great and noble leader.Item The role of women in the Church in Africa(Maseno University, Kenya., 2010-10-20) Kasomo Danielcontemporary political, theological and social debate. Three relevant and universal documents declare the fundamental equality of the human beings. The Bible, The Vatican II and The Universal declaration of the human rights. Let us see: The Bible "All baptized in Christ, you have all clothed yourselves in Christ and there are no more distinctions between Jew and Greek, slave and free, male and female, but all of you are in Christ Jesus" Gal. 3:28. "And you are all brothers and sisters" Matt. 23:8.Item The responsible administrator: an approach to ethics for the administrative role(Jossey-Bass, 2006-06-16) Terry L. CooperAs I write these introductory comments for the fifth edition of The Responsible Administrator, I am struck by the fact that when I wrote the first edition, I never envisioned that the field of administrative ethics would grow so robustly that there would be four subsequent editions of this book. Indeed, this fifth edition is testimony not only to the growth of the field, but to the continued relevance of administrative ethics and the problem of responsibility. This fifth edition seeks to acknowledge the changes in the field and the advances in research while remaining true to the basic framework of the first edition. The Responsible Administrator was written for students and practitioners of public administration who want to develop their ethical as well as technical competence. It is for men and women in public service, or preparing for it, who sometimes worry about the right thing to do, but who either have not taken the time to read books on ethical theory or suspect that such treatises would not be helpful at the practical level. The education, training, and day-to-day practice of public administrators tend to be dominated by the practical problems of getting the job done. Concerns about what should be done and why it should be done get swept aside by the pressures of schedule and workload. Modern society is preoccupied with action, to the exclusion of reflection about values and principles. Theory is diminished to theories that concern means—“how to” crowds out “toward what end?” Ethical theory, in particular, tends to suffer under the sway of this mentality. Because ethics involves substantive reasoning about obligations, consequences, and ultimate ends, its immediate utility for a producing and consuming society is suspect. Principles and values, “goods” and “oughts,” seem pretty wispy stuff compared to cost-benefit ratios, GNP, tensile strength, organizational structures, assembly lines, budgets, downsizing, deadlines, outsourcing through contracts, interest group lobbying, and political pressures. The payoff for dealing formally with ethics is unclear for individual administrators and for organizations as well.Item The Redemptive Self:Stories Americans Live(OXFORD, 2013-11-21) D A N P . M C A D A M SWho are the good people? When you think of the people you know or have known, when you think of the people you never knew but wished you had known, when you list your family members or check out your Facebook friends or take an inventory of the notable people who show up in the news, on tele vision, or as characters in your favorite movies or novels, who stands out as really, really good ? Probably not the richest people, right? Probably not the greatest celebri ties or sports stars. And probably not those more-or-less pretty good folks out there—the ones who follow the rules, more or less, stay out of jail, try to be honest in most things, pay their taxes and hold down good jobs, the more-or less well-functioning, psychologically okay, pleasant-enough-once-you-get-to know-them men and women in your world, living decent lives, more or less, and working reasonably hard to get by. Who are the good people, and what criteria might you use to decide? My guess is that you would choose people who tried to make the world a better place . Th ese might include famous people who operated on a grand scale—Martin Luther King, Jr., for example, Mother Teresa, Mahatma Gandhi, renowned religious, moral, and political heroes, or perhaps eminent scientists or doctors who made signifi cant contributions to the common good. But your list would also surely include people you have known personally—maybe a parent, a teacher, a coach, a dear friend, a neighbor, or some other individual, probably somebody older than you are, who has had a strong positive infl uence on you. My list of really good people will be diff erent from yours, of course, but I bet we will use pretty much the same main criterion in making our choices. Th at criterion is what psy chologists call generativity —and generativity is where this book begins.Item THE OFFICE POLITICS HANDBOOK WINNING THE GAME OF POWER AND POLITICS AT WORK(Career Press, 2013-11-12) JACK GODWIN, PhDThanks to Tracey Culbertson, Lori Harrison, Michelle Loew, Eric Merchant, Mlima Morrison, Caroline Peretti, Josef Preciado, and Janis Silvers, as well as Ben Amata, Ed Baranowski, Bernice Bass de Martinez, Jerry Blake, Judy Boliver, Ric Brown, Karyl Burwell, Kevin Cornwell, Tom Carroll, Emiliano Diaz, Louis Downs, Smile Dube, Virginia Dixon, David Earwicker, Beth Erickson, Buzz Fozouni, Don Gerth, Alex Gonzalez, Alan Haslam, Julian Heather, John Kepley, Tom Krabacher, Kazue Masuyama, Ed Mills, Kathy Mine, Joan Neide, Chevelle Newsome, Melissa Norrbom, Hakan Ozcelik, Jon Price, Joanne Reilly, Karlos Santos-Coy, Richard Shek, Joe Sheley, Suzanne Swartz, Don Taylor, Catherine Turrill, Ernest Uwazie, Leo Van Cleve, Lori Varlotta, and all my friends and colleagues in the CSU. Thanks to Dave Bewley-Taylor, Helen Fulton, Branwen Lloyd, Angela Jones, Jon Roper, Ieuan Williams, and everyone at Swansea University. Thanks to Steffan and Margarita Todorov and everyone in the village of Iskar, Bulgaria.