With a foreword from Suzanne Noffke OP. In Leadership as a call to Service. The lives and works of Teresa of Avila, Catherine of Siena and Therese of Lisieux, Christine Cameron looks at a synthesis of the lives and works of the three women doctors of the Catholic Church as servant leaders. The seminal work of Greenleaf (1970) on servant leadership and Spears (1998) with his identification of the ten core characteristics of servant leadership provided the framework and inspiration for this book. The focus is on how the ten core characteristics of listening, empathy, healing, awareness,...

With over thirty pages of additional information, this second edition of SAVVY is still a straight-forward guide, formulated on behalf of fine jewelry lovers who wish they had a trusted gem expert available at any time to answer their questions. With so many manufacturers hawking their goods, how do you know a truly valuable piece from something that has been altered or manipulated to look good? Should you negotiate price? How do you know the stone is all that the salesperson claims it is? How will you know it's a quality piece? Does it have true intrinsic value? What color should it really...

The book you are about to read provides a new paradigm for understanding the ministry of a twelfth-century cloistered Benedictine nun, St Hildegard of Bingen, the fourth woman doctor of the Church in light of twenty-first century servant leadership. Christine Cameron reveals to us the role of the servant leader as defined by Larry C. Spears (1998). She demonstrates how St Hildegard embodies each of the ten characteristics presented by Spears: listening, empathy, healing, awareness, persuasion, conceptualisation, foresight, stewardship, commitment to the growth of people, and building...