Teach Your Team to Fish: Using Ancient Wisdom for Inspired Teamwork
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ISBN: 1400053110 / Publisher: Currency, June 2004
The best-selling author of Jesus, CEO teaches the fine art of inspired leadership and teamwork by following four fundamental principles used by Jesus to build and nurture his apostles--share an exciting message, recognize the challenges of one's goals, transform individuals into a team with shared values, and demonstrate what one has learned. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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Jesus Built an Inspired Team. You Can, Too.Laurie Beth Jones has given hundreds of thousands of business readers insight into how the ideas of Jesus can be used to enhance performance. In Teach Your Team to Fish, Jones focuses on one of the most critical areas for anyone in business: teamwork. Leaders today face their greatest challenges not only in defining strategies and getting updated information but also in getting diverse human beings to pull together without falling apart. Jesus is a role model for team leaders everywhere. Teach Your Team to Fish offers dozens of stories from the Bible, showing how Jesus managed his team of disciples and other followers, with suggestions for how to apply these lessons to real-world teambuilding and management problems. It offers guidance and inspiration on:• How to excite your team members in order to motivate them• How to ground them so they’ll be realistic about what can be achieved• How to transform them into a truly well-functioning team• How to release them into the world to improve teams elsewhereLaurie Beth Jones provides many examples of companies in which teams work well together and offers lessons that can help team leaders everywhere sustain themselves and achieve their common goals.
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