Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> General

Great leadership in a VUCA world of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity resides in the constructive tension between healthy relationships and dynamic change. The word radical aptly describes a new style of leadership for a VUCA world because it captures this sense of constructive tension. The Latin origin of the word radical means "back to the roots" while in the modern vernacular, radical has come to mean out on the leading edge of change.

The roots of great leadership are healthy relationships, but the fruit of great leadership is the ability to thrive in a rapidly...

Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856-1923) was a very influential figure in childrens education. In 1878 she founded the first free kindergarten school in San Francisco. The Birds' Christmas Carol tells the story of Carol Bird who, at the age of five, falls very sick. She brings joy to all those around her and plans a fantastic Christmas party for the neighboring family.

This title was first published in 2001: Focusing on human resource management practices in the multinational multi-service providers, this text presents some complex academic research in an accessible form. This book collates and reviews, in a manner designed to be both accessible and comprehensible to the interested reader, the extensive body of academic literature which has been developed since the 1980s. In addition, it provides a perspective on human resource management issues, practices and problems based in part on interviews with senior personnel. Most suitable for scholars and...

This title was first published in 2000: Linehan (management, Cork Institute of Technology) studies 50 European senior female managers in a variety of organizations who have made at least one career move across national borders. She compares the careers of these women with a number of theoretical explanations for the relative dearth of women in these positions. She finds that many of the problems facing domestic female managers also face international managers specifically, assumptions that management skills and organizational commitment are societally associated with masculinity).

As challenging as it is to imagine how an educated cleric or wealthy lay person in the early Middle Ages would have understood a letter (especially one from God), it is even harder to understand why letters would have so captured the imagination of people who might never have produced, sent, or received letters themselves.

In Epistolary Acts, Jordan Zweck examines the presentation of letters in early medieval vernacular literature, including hagiography, prose romance, poetry, and sermons on letters from heaven, moving beyond traditional genre study to offer a radically new...

How faith, the natural world, and community can provide complementary paths for leading a good life

People have long looked to nature and the divine as paths to the good. In this panoramic meditation on the harmonious life, Michael Mayerfeld Bell traces how these two paths came to be seen as separate from human ways, and how many of today's conflicts can be traced back thousands of years to this ancient divide.

Taking readers on a spellbinding journey through history and across the globe, Bell begins with the pagan view, which sees nature and the divine as entangled with...

When Faisal, an Afghani from the Pashtun tribe, begins attending Michael Farril's English as a Second Language class, Michael has every reason to be terrified. This Faisal has all the external signs of being a Muslim extremist and a potential terrorist. However, as Michael gets to know Faisal, he realises that things aren't what they originally seemed.

Eventually a very strong friendship develops between these two men. In so doing, each man has to adjust his thinking to the other's beliefs and outlooks on life. Michael has to re-evaluate his views and opinions about...