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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 Together in the Land A Reading of the Book of Joshua(Sheffield Academic Press, 1993-03-23) Gordon MitchellThe text of Joshua presents the reader with a puzzling contradiction. One the one hand, there are commands to slaughter all of the enemy, descriptions of complete destruction and statements recording the success of the conquest, and on the other hand, Rahab's family, the Gibeonites and others continue to live in the land. To this puzzling contradiction, several explanations have been offered.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 SPIRIT OF THE LITURGY(CENSOR DEPUTATUS, 1935-07-27) ROMANO GUARDINIAN old theological proverb says, "Nothing done by nature and grace is done in vain." Nature and grace obey their own laws, which are based upon certain established hypotheses. Both the natural and the supernatural life of the soul, when lived in accordance with these principles, remain healthy, develop, and are enriched. In isolated cases the rules may be waived without any danger, when such a course is required or excused by reason of a spiritual disturbance, imperative necessity, extraordinary occasion, important end in view, or the like. In the end, however, this cannot be done with impunity. Just as the life of the body droops and is stunted when the conditions of its growth are not observed, so it is with spiritual and religious life--it sickens, losing its vigor, strength and unity.Item THE SOURCES OF CHRISTIAN ETHICS(T&T CLARK EDINBURGH, 1995-05-15) Sr. Mary Thomas Noble, O.P.Vatican Council II, expressing its concern for the renewal of Christian morality, noted that "its scientific exposition should be more thoroughly nourished by scriptural teaching." The Council further urged the re establishment of moral theology's links with dogma and the teaching of the Church Fathers. It reaffirmed the connectedness of moral theology with spirituality, pastoral practice, philosophy, and the behavioral sci ences.1 These directives confirm certain strong currents that have been developing within the Church over the last decades, initiatives of renewal in the fields of Scripture, patristics, liturgy, and ecumenism. One of the principal changes introduced by the Council has been, for the People of God, a new, full access to Scripture and to the liturgy, which is the Word of God prayed by his people. But obviously, no decree or document, however enlightened, can bring about the proposed re forms unaided. What is needed is revision in depth. The theologian, for example, cannot be content with merely multiplying references to Scrip ture or to extensive patristic sources, but must penetrate and grasp the ology's deepest foundations and principles. Most importantly, Christian morality cannot be a mere "given." The riches of its vast heritage have not yet been tapped as have those of Scrip ture and dogma. Christian moral teaching is far more than a catalogue of precepts concerning behavior, classified and more or less determined by particular situations. It must convey a systematic overview of its field, provide basic criteria for judgment, and come to terms with the entire domain of human activity. In the course of the ages, moreover, it has developed its own language and technical procedures.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.