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Recommends
AQUAchurch,
Essential Leadership Arts For Piloting Your
Church in Today’s Fluid Culture
Leonard Sweet
Group Publishers, 1999 ($20)
“You can't consult maps in a world where
the terra is no longer firma. In a world
with no familiar landmarks, you can only
explore the world for yourself." Len Sweet
had given church leaders a wonderful
resource for exploring this ancient/future
world. He establishes the context of
ministry in today's world and provides
11 1 / 3 “leadership arts" for navigating the
seas of postmodernity along with practical
applications and examples of real aquachurches.
The Dance of Change,
The Challenges to Sustaining
Momentum in Learning Organizations
Peter Senge, Art Kleiner, Charlotte
Roberts, Richard Ross, George Roth
and Bryan Smith
Doubleday/Currency Books, 1999 ($35)
The latest in the Fifth Discipline
series of resources, this is a valuable
guide for leaders seeking to
initiate and sustain change in an
organization. It is rich in insight,
learnings, exercises and tools to help
leaders break through the power of
the status quo, initiate change and
innovation, and sustain the transformation long-term.
The Handbook for
Multi-Sensory Worship
Kim Miller and the Ginghamsburg
Church Worship Team
Abingdon Press, 1999 ($39)
“Worship celebrations designed
to speak to today's culture must
be planned for the purpose of
connecting with God and my
God-destiny." This useful
handbook and accompanying
CD are the latest resource from
Ginghamsburg UMC, a church
that is a leader in developing
effective ways to reach
contemporary culture. The
handbook has outlines and
specific resources of theme,
Scripture, music and video for 34 different worship celebrations.
Leadership by the Book
Ken Blanchard, Bill Hybels
and Phil Hodges
William Morrow Books, 1999 ($20)
A modern-day parable, this book is the story
of three leaders — a professor, a minister and
a businessman — and how they are able to
apply the leadership lessons and wisdom of
Jesus to their lives. While not autobiographical,
it draws on the experience of the
authors, all influential leaders in real life.
Leadership A to Z
James O'Toole
Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1999 ($22)
Leaders at all levels will benefit
from this wisdom book on
leadership. Both a handbook
on leadership and a coaching
tool, it is organized like a
dictionary with topics literally
from A to Z. These lessons for
leaders are concise, practical
and based on sound
scholarship and real-life
experience.
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The New Pioneers,
The Men and Women Who Are Transforming
the Workplace and Marketplace
Thomas Petzinger, Jr.
Simon & Schuster, 1999 ($25)
Based on three years of travel, interviews
and analysis, this book manages to
chronicle the revolutionary shifts that are
transforming not only the economy but
the way we work and live. This is much
more than a “business book." Petzinger
makes sense of the shift from the Industrial
Age to an “Age of Adaptation" through
the stories of the people on the front line
of the revolution.
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