Change is one of the few constants in life, yet it often feels like the greatest disruption we face. Whether it is forced upon us or initiated by choice, change strikes at the core of our comfort zones. Too often, leaders and organizations resist change, assuming it will only bring chaos, conflict, and uncertainty. But what if change could become the very pathway to growth, stability, and transformation?Zone Leader: 7 Tactics for Leading in the Zones is a practical...

The interrelationship of the sun, air, water, and food are essential for life. Essential: Building Blocks 4 Life and Leadership explores the interrelationship of vision, goals, character, and passion as essential to leadership. Applying the principles in this book will establish and strengthen every area of your life and leadership. In this well-researched, 16 chapter resource, your business team, ministry staff, and men's ministry will be challenged to grow as the future directio...

NOW A USA TODAY AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER!What are your limits? Care to break them?To inspire change in yourself and your team, you must break free from what's holding you down.In Elevate, award-winning CEO and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Robert Glazer reveals four life-changing principles—or capacities—that will allow you to overcome self-limiting beliefs, establish positiv...

New York Times BestsellerNewly appointed Pastor of The Potter's House Church in Dallas, Sarah Jakes Roberts combines her own life lessons she's learned with insights from the story of Eve and shows you how past disappointments, struggles, and even mistakes can be used today to help you become the woman God intended in this New York Times bestseller.Who would imagine being friends with Eve—the woman who's been held solely responsibl...

The New York Times bestseller that provides a simple, proven approach to improve accountability and the bottom line.The economy crashes, the government misfires, businesses fail, leaders don't lead, managers don't manage, and people don't follow through, leaving us asking, "How did that happen?"Surprises caused by a lack of personal accountability plague almost every organization today, from the political arena to large and small businesses. Ho...

Best-selling author of The One-Minute Manager, Ken Blanchard, along with Phil Hodges, offers guidance for how to become a successful modern-day servant leader modeled after Jesus Christ. Based on years of leadership study and proven leadership styles, Blanchard gives established and up-and-coming business leaders solid examples, tools, and methods for life-changing results in their leadership of others.Servant Leader summarizes the Four Dimensions...

To lead is not to be “the boss,” the “head honcho,” or “the brass.”To lead is to serve.Although serving may imply weakness to some, conjuring up a picture of the CEO waiting on the workforce hand and foot, servant leadership is actually a robust, revolutionary idea that can have significant impact on an organization’s performance.Jim Hunter champions this hard/soft approach to leadership, which turns bosses and managers into coaches and mentors. By “hard,” Hunter me...

**Manage your time the way Jesus managed his with a biblical antidote to swamped to-do lists and hurried schedules.“A highly practical road map.”—Mark Batterson, New York Times bestselling author and lead pastor of National Community Church**Despite the overwhelming amount of resources for time management and work-life balance, the ability to cultivate the efficiency and equilibrium needed to manage all our worthy pursuits can often feel frustratingly out of reach....

Building a successful career starts with you.It's easy to get caught up in the day-to-day demands of your current job and lose sight of the big picture, but with a typical career spanning 50 years or more, you do so at your own peril. It's up to you to chart your own course to professional success.If you read nothing else on effectively managing your career, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the

A recent study revealed that only 21 percent of workers feel engaged and truly committed to their company’s success and goals. They don’t know how their work connects to their company’s goals or understand how they can help achieve them. Leaders have failed to fully engage workers in the development and execution of their company’s mission and goals, and ultimately its journey toward success. Too often, employees are over-managed and under-led.Jude Rake, a business leader with more...

Youth ministry veteran and bestselling author, Duffy Robbins, offers an updated and revised edition of his book about the important, behind-the-scenes mechaincs of youth ministry. The tasks of budgeting, decision-making, time management, team ministry, staff relationships, conflict resolution, working with parents, and a range of other issues, are the things that keep a ministry together and functioning well. Nobody gets into youth ministry because they want to think about these things; bu...

"Not enough" is the theme of our day. Fear, scarcity, and inequality dominate the media cycle and are constant companions in our culture. While 74 percent of Americans believe in God, we can feel our world changing in ways that simply seem out of control. We want to cling to a sovereign and loving God who tells us repeatedly in Scripture to "fear not," yet it is estimated that nearly 90 percent of his followers have a scarcity mentality rooted in fear.Five times in Scripture, Jesus...