The Transformational Entrepreneur provides a step-by-step, pragmatic approach for creating breakthrough, sustainable business success. The methods shared reflect the best-practices developed over twenty-five years of real-world, executive experience in both corporate and start-up environments. The book examines, in detail, the underlying principles of the human element in driving business success. Going beyond proven business processes, it explores how the entire human continuum; the mind, heart, and spirit help drive growth, profits, and sustainability. Reflecting back on a career that created more than $1 billion in market valuation growth, the author draws evidence-based correlations between traditional business methods and how the human spirit was a consistent, contributing factor in successful endeavors. The book also explores the symbiotic relationship between leadership, strategy, and culture and how the accretive nature of these elements can be leveraged to deliver breakthrough performance.
This biography of Pauli Murray is a groundbreaking new nonfiction book intended for the middle grade audience written in verse. Pauli Murray was a thorn in the side of white America demanding justice and equal treatment for all. She was a queer civil rights and women's rights activist before any movement advocated for either--the brilliant mind that, in 1944, conceptualized the arguments that would win Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka; and in 1964, the arguments that won women equality in the workplace. Throughout her life, she fought for the oppressed, not only through changing laws, but by using her powerful prose to influence those who could affect change. She lived by her convictions and challenged authority to demand fairness and justice regardless of the personal consequences. Without seeking acknowledgment, glory, or financial gain for what she did, Pauli Murray fought in the trenches for many of the rights we take for granted. Her goal was human rights and the dignity of life for all.
A tribute to living Irish folk sheroes and heroes, this small format book is a guide to 14 of the most colourful people of Irish heritage alive today. Each of them has made an outstanding contribution not just to Irish culture but to public life - producing art, argument, performance, cinema, literature, theology or political positions that have changed the world and the way we view it. This book is a launch pad from which readers can pursue further the amazing contributions of these fearlessly refreshing characters who have left an indelible mark on their generation.
Dr Murray unfolds With Christ in the School of Prayer in 31 powerful lessons. God listens to those he loves, and works all things for their good. Murray, in his classic, calls the church to exercise that powerful gift of Prayer. Murray skillfully describes the role of the Holy Spirit within the church and exhorts Christians to use the blessings God has given us. This book is a guide to living a life as a temple of the Holy Spirit.
Absolute surrender-let me tell you where I got those words. I used them myself often, and you have heard them numerous times. But once, in Scotland, I was in a company where we were talking about the condition of Christ's Church, and what the great need of the Church and of believers is. There was in our company a godly Christian worker who has much to do in training other workers for Christ, and I asked him what he would say was the great need of the Church-the message that ought to be preached. He answered very quietly and simply and determinedly: "Absolute surrender to God is the one thing. The words struck me as never before. And that man began to tell how, in the Christian workers with whom he had to deal, he finds that if they are sound on that point, they are willing to be taught and helped, and they always improve. Whereas, others who are not sound there very often go back and leave the work. The condition for obtaining God's full blessing is absolute surrender to Him
We often hear about the compromise life and the question comes up What lies at the root of it? What is the reason that so many Christians are wasting their lives in the terrible bondage of the world instead of living in the manifestation and the privilege and the glory of the child of God? And another question perhaps comes to us: What can be the reason that when we see a thing is wrong and strive against it we cannot conquer it? What can be the reason that we have a hundred times prayed and vowed, yet here we are still living a mingled, divided, half-hearted life? To those two questions there is one answer: it is self that is the root of the whole trouble.
The Inner Chamber suggests thoughts of the utmost importance. The daily need of retirement and quiet; the true Spirit of prayer; the Devotional reading of God's Word; the Fellowship with God for which these are meant and by which alone they bring a blessing; the Spiritual Life which they are meant to strengthen and fit for daily duty in intercourse with the world; the Service for the Kingdom of God in Soul-winning and Intercession-all these truths have their share in making devotions a source of joy and of strength. In this little book Murray has not attempted to take them up systematically, but his hope is that their fragments may bring help to some in the cultivation of the hidden life and its intercourse with God.
Pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil. It was when the now fallen angels began to look upon themselves with self-complacency that they were led to disobedience, and were cast down from the light of heaven into outer darkness. Even so it was, when the serpent breathed the poison of his pride, the desire to be as God, into the hearts of our first parents, that they too fell from their high estate into all the wretchedness in which man is now sunk. In heaven and earth, pride, self-exaltation, is the gate and the birth, and the curse, of hell
In this edited collection exploring Disney’s dark side, attention to Disney’s Gothic reveals the ways through which Disney productions construct and reinforce conceptions of normalcy and deviance in relation to shifting understandings of morality, social roles, and identity categories.
Although written by a pastor born in South Africa in 1828, the wisdom shared in The Deeper Christian Life applies to modern-day, everyday Christians. In the Deeper Christian Life, he discusses situations and problems facing you today, including: A- Doubting your relationship with God. A- Dealing with sin and unforgiveness. A- Unbelief. If there is to be any deepening of the spiritual life in us, we must come to the discovery, and the acknowledgment of the unbelief in our hearts. Unbelief is the mother of disobedience, and of all my sins and short comings my temper, my pride, my unlovingness, my worldliness, my sins of every kind. Discover your path to a deeper Christian life through this classic writing by a servant of God who changed the course of many turning them toward their destiny.
When American and European record companies began recording music in Southeast Asia, their goal was simply to create markets for new phonograph machines. In doing so, they created a rich historical archive of beautiful music that has been vastly underexplored and barely studied. "Longing for the Past "is the first-ever survey of the 78 rpm record era in Southeast Asia. A kaleidoscopic collection featuring four CDs with 90 tracks of music from 1905 to 1966, this beautifully produced 272-page volume includes essays and annotations by ethnomusicologists, along with more than 250 vintage photographs, record labels and sleeves. Illustrations include photographs of musicians from the countries covered, which range from Burma, Indonesia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam to Singapore, Cambodia and Malaysia. The nearly 100 tracks range from Laotian classical music, Vietnamese opera and Cambodian monks to Khmer classical selections, Buddhist sermons from Laos and folk opera and piphat ensembles from Thailand.
This is a book and audio CD offering study and reference support for the Spanish GCSE course, as well as being useful for GCSE examinations and Scottish Standard Grade.
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