Jesus Built an Inspired Team. You Can, Too. Laurie Beth Jones has given hundreds of thousands of businessreaders insight into how the ideas of Jesus can be used to enhanceperformance. In Teach Your Team to Fish , Jones focuses onone of the most critical areas for anyone in business: teamwork.Leaders today face their greatest challenges not only in definingstrategies and getting updated information but also in gettingdiverse human beings to pull together without falling apart. Jesus is a role model for team leaders everywhere. Teach YourTeam to Fish offers dozens of stories from the Bible, showinghow Jesus managed his team of disciples and other followers, withsuggestions for how to apply these lessons to real-worldteambuilding and management problems. It offers guidance andinspiration on: ? How to excite your team members in order to motivate them ? How to ground them so they’ll be realistic about what can beachieved ? How to transform them into a truly well-functioning team ? How to release them int
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Most organizational change initiatives fail spectacularly (atworst) or deliver lukewarm results (at best). In his internationalbestseller Leading Change, John Kotter revealed why change is sohard, and provided an actionable, eight-step process forimplementing successful transformations. The book became the changebible for managers worldwide. Now, in Urgency, Kotter shines the spotlight on the crucial firststep in his framework: creating a sense of urgency by gettingpeople to actually see and feel the need for change. Why focus on urgency? Without it, any change effort is doomed.Kotter reveals the insidious nature of complacency in all its formsand guises. In this exciting new book, Kotter explains: *How to go beyond "the business case" for change to overcome thefear and anger that can suppress urgency *Ways to ensure that your actions and behaviors -- not just yourwords -- communicate the need for change *How to keep fanning the flames of urgency even after yourtrans
