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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Robert D. Lesslie
The Adventures of an IT Leader, Updated Edition with a New Preface by the Authors
Robert D. Austin; Shannon O'Donnell; Richard L. Nolan
Harvard Business Review Press
2016
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What does it take to lead and manage your company’s tech? Becoming an effective IT leader and manager presents a host of challenges?from anticipating emerging technologies, to managing relationships with senior executives, vendors, and employees, to communicating with the board. A good IT leader must also be a strong business leader. This book?now thoroughly updated with a new preface by the authors and current tech details and terminology?invites you to accompany new CIO Jim Barton as he steps up to leadership at his company. You’ll get a deeper understanding of the role of IT in your own organization as you see Jim struggle through a tough first year, handling (and fumbling) all kinds of management challenges. Although fictional, the scenarios are based on the authors’ long experience working with real-life companies across industries and sectors. The Adventures of an IT Leader is both an insightful story and an instructive guidebook. You can read it from beginning to end or treat it as a series of cases, skipping around to different chapters that address your most pressing needs. (For example, if you need to learn about crisis management and security, read chapters 10?12.) You can also test yourself and think about how to use the book’s lessons in your own company by reading the authors’ ?Reflection” questions at the end of each chapter. This book is your indispensable manual for IT management and leadership, no matter what business you’re in.
While the story of the reintegration of professional football in 1946 after World War II is a topic that has been covered, there is a little-known aspect of this integration that has not been fully explored.After World War II and up until the mid- to late 1960s, professional football teams scheduled numerous preseason games in the South. Once African American players started dotting the rosters of these teams, they had to face Jim Crow conditions. Early on, black players were barred from playing in some cities. Most encountered segregated accommodations when they stayed in the South. And when African Americans in these southern cities came to see their favorite black players perform, they were relegated to segregated seating conditions.To add to the challenges these African American players and fans endured, professional football gradually started placing franchises in still-segregated cities as early as 1937, culminating with the new AFL placing franchises in Dallas and Houston in 1960. That same year, the NFL followed suit by placing a franchise in Dallas. Now, instead of just visiting a southern city for a day or so to play an exhibition game, African American players that were on the rosters of these southern teams had to live in these still segregated cities. Many of these players, being from the North or West Coast, had never dealt with de jure or even de facto Jim Crow laws.Early on, if these African American players didn’t “toe the line” or fought back (via contract disputes, interracial relationships, requesting better living accommodations in the South, protesting segregated seating, etc.), they were traded, cut, and even blackballed from the league. Eventually, though, as the civil rights movement gained steam in the 1950s and 1960s, African American players were able to protest the conditions in the South with success. Much of what happened in professional football during this time period coincided with or mirrored events in America and the civil rights movement.
To Dream Again, Again!: Growing Healthy Congregations for Changing Futures
Robert D. Dale
Nurturing Faith Inc.
2018
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To Dream Again, Again Growing Healthy Congregations for Changing Futures explores the power of congregational dreams. The health cycle model offers an organic, inside-out approach for understanding church health and avoiding pathology. To root churches in redemptive health, we'll identify and apply health cycle discoveries.This book is for leaders, both clergy and laity, who love their congregations and are committed to keeping their churches healthy and redemptive.
People have an interest in moving up in their jobs, financially, housing, and so many other things in life. Why do they not want to spend time moving up spiritually? Movin' Up Spiritually is an encouragement to help people mature in their relationship with God. It shows that the basic standards for life come from the Bible. As shown in this book, scriptures point the way for a harmonious and joyful life as we build our relationship with God as individuals, in a marriage relationship, and in our families. It further directs our attention to church leadership and what the body of Christ, the church, should be doing for helping people see the truth and have life.
My Spouse Was Unfaithful: Finding Strength in God's Presence
Robert D. Jones
New Growth Press
2023
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How should you respond to the devastating disappointments that adultery and other forms of betrayal have brought into your marriage? It's natural to feel a wide range of emotions, including anger, confusion, grief, sadness, jealousy, anxiety, embarrassment, and regret. The consequences of your spouse's sin cast wide effects on your relationship, family, and future. Counselor Robert D. Jones has walked with many couples in your situation and provides ten steps for moving forward from this betrayal with God-given hope.My Spouse Was Unfaithful provides biblical principles for handling this betrayal and confronting your spouse, and it offers a guide for working through a potential repentance and restoration process. While God doesn't promise restoration with your spouse, he does promise to be with you and help you--whether your spouse chooses to repent or not. God can use this experience to draw you closer to him and bring greater good to your life.Practical, accessible, spiritual guidance on how to move forward from your spouse's betrayal with God-given hope. Part of the Ask the Christian Counselor series, walking readers through their deepest and most profound questions. Gives readers guidance in understanding so they can learn to lament and guard against bitterness, vengeance, and rash decisions. Compact format goes deeper than New Growth Press's popular minibooks without overwhelming the reader.
As I entered the administration building early on the morning of August 10, 1999, the long narrow hallway was empty. I could hear the click of my heels on the red tile floor as I walked along. When I glanced down the hallway, I noticed a district security guard walking toward me. There was nothing unusual about the morning as we exchanged greetings.I had arrived around seven thirty that morning. As I was unlocking the outer door to my office, the security guard approached me and said something. As I recall it was basically, "I have a message for you from the superintendent."He then asked me to please remove all of my personal items from my office, give him my office keys, and leave the school district property immediately.Later that evening at my home, a district security guard hand-delivered a memo to me. It began by stating, "Effective immediately, you are suspended with pay, pending a determination by the Board of Trustees whether or not you should be given notice of termination for cause..."I did not need to read any further than the first line of the memo to know that my life was about to change. I cannot say I was surprised, but I did not expect the twists and turns of the journey I was about to begin.
Goodbye Chomsky, and Other Essays on Language
Robert D King
austin macauley publishers llc
2021
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The idea of this book is that language is too interesting to be enjoyed exclusively by linguists.This is undoubtedly unfair to linguists--not people who speak several languages but academic linguists (for whom linguistics is the scientific study of language). Though this book is informed by linguistics, it is not a linguistics book, rather a language-not-linguistics book. It is a book about topics involving language that interest me and that I hope will be interesting to the intellectually curious reader.Its topics include J.R.R. Tolkien's languages of Middle-earth, invented and artificial languages, language and gender, dialects, American versus British (Noah Webster), the Whorf-Sapir Hypothesis, African-American vernacular English, the history of English, English as the world's language, language death, the rebirth of Hebrew in Israel, the Yiddish language, language in India, language and nationalism, DNA and the origins of language, the dilemma of the postcolonial writer, and more.
Goodbye Chomsky, and Other Essays on Language
Robert D King
austin macauley publishers llc
2021
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The idea of this book is that language is too interesting to be enjoyed exclusively by linguists.This is undoubtedly unfair to linguists--not people who speak several languages but academic linguists (for whom linguistics is the scientific study of language). Though this book is informed by linguistics, it is not a linguistics book, rather a language-not-linguistics book. It is a book about topics involving language that interest me and that I hope will be interesting to the intellectually curious reader.Its topics include J.R.R. Tolkien's languages of Middle-earth, invented and artificial languages, language and gender, dialects, American versus British (Noah Webster), the Whorf-Sapir Hypothesis, African-American vernacular English, the history of English, English as the world's language, language death, the rebirth of Hebrew in Israel, the Yiddish language, language in India, language and nationalism, DNA and the origins of language, the dilemma of the postcolonial writer, and more.
These meditations plant a seed of peace in the heart of the reader. And don't we all need an extra dose of peace these days? Without shying away from the depth of human suffering, Bob Flanagan offers wise and gentle words of hope.--Donyelle McCrayAssistant Professor of Homiletics, Yale Divinity SchoolWhen wrestling with depression and anxiety, getting out of bed is a courageous move. When panic attacks and suicidal thoughts strike, finding victories in the small things of life and reframing feelings can help a person flourish even in the midst of mental health struggles. Rev. Dr. Bob Flanagan knows all about that--he's spent two decades combatting mental illness head on.In his first-person spiritual journal Courage to Thrive, Flanagan takes the reader with him as he traverses the dark and scary landscape of his mind and then the paths of faith that lead him to the Source of light and hope. Through a vulnerable look at the realities of a priest battling mental illness and still thriving, readers--whether dealing with similar mental health challenges or the stressors of everyday life--are left with a quiet confidence that assures them they too can thrive and enjoy the gifts God has given them.Each of the forty reflections concludes with a heartfelt prayer that revels in God's healing mercies. Join Flanagan on a journey to joy, peace, and hope.
Have you ever asked, "Who am I?" Do you long to know yourself, the world, and God better and thrive in all of life's many transitions? Author Bob Flanagan says we here are on earth not just to live but to thrive. We can know who we are and how to live in this "crazy, beautiful world as a follower of Jesus and a child of God." We do that by relating well to ourselves and others, the world and its various creatures and places-and God. "We thrive when we relate to who and what is around us in a healthy manner. We can discover ourselves-who we are-in beautiful, elegant, hope-filled, positive ways," says Flanagan. This unique, six-week Bible study has thirty-six lessons to help you know your true self and learn a new way of being as a child of God as you examine the family connections and relationships with others and the world. Self-discovery tools such as directed Bible readings with commentaries, daily prayers, and links to poems, art, and music will facilitate personal growth and provide fresh insights. This book is eminently useful ... giving us multiple ways into its project, the complex and holy discovery of one's true self. -The Rev. Barbara C. Crafton
The Adventures of Opie the Oppossum: A New Home
Robert D. Gordon; Heather M. Perry
Rosedog Books
2021
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The Adventures of Opie the Opossum: Search for a Home is the third book in the series for authors Robert D. Gordon and Heather M. Perry. This third adventure takes Opie from the comforts of his home and takes him on a journey to search for a new home. Along the way, he encounters several animals that he had not seen before in his adventures around the ranch. During his search he has to be careful as not to find an animal that might harm him. The big question is, does he?About the Authors Robert D Gordon is the author of the WWII military history book To Any Foe. Also, children's picture books, The Adventures of Opie the Opossum and The Adventures of Opie the Opossum: The Fish Pond. Gordon lived on his ranch in Kansas for ten years, gathered materials on various animals, and then decided he wanted his grandchildren to know about the animals that lived there. He had not seen a children's book written about an opossum, so he enlisted his daughter, Heather Perry, to co-author the books. Perry is an elementary school teacher who enjoys being with children and ensures they have lots of reading in their young lives. Both Gordon and Perry are graduates of California State University Long Beach in Long Beach, California.
The Racist is the story of a man of the Greatest Generation, of the Jim Crow South and proud of his Texan heritage, who raised his sons in the Mid-Atlantic states. His out-of-touch lodestars of strict--actually raging and intimidating--child discipline and racism were his intended legacy. But as society evolved his legacy would instead be one of utter repudiation, lifelong rage issues, suicide, and redemption. The author takes this legacy--with some historical perspective, objectivity, and Christian forgiveness--and applies the lessons learned to our hyper-racial, dishonest, confused, and disintegrating national discourse. What becomes clear is, first, a warning that our future is looking very dark indeed if we continue on this road. But also that there is hope that America can unite under its founding principles and can continue to be a beacon to the world--where racism and bigotry remain relics of the past. Robert D. Leigh retired from the Army Reserves in 2006 and from the Veteran's Administration in 2020 after a thirty-two-year nursing career. He came to manhood in Baltimore County, Maryland where he developed his life-long pursuits of shooting, hiking, camping, white-water kayaking, playing music, bike riding, reading and acting. Being in the Boomer generation that witnessed the end of Jim Crow, the Civil Rights era, the end of the Cold War, and the realization of equal treatment of everyone in society, upon retirement he saw the rise of Antiracism through a lens that gave stark clarity to our current reality. A lens that is mostly ignored by most voices today. This work is the product of two years of watching, thinking, and responding to our COVID world and beyond.
The Racist is the story of a man of the Greatest Generation, of the Jim Crow South and proud of his Texan heritage, who raised his sons in the Mid-Atlantic states. His out-of-touch lodestars of strict--actually raging and intimidating--child discipline and racism were his intended legacy. But as society evolved his legacy would instead be one of utter repudiation, lifelong rage issues, suicide, and redemption. The author takes this legacy--with some historical perspective, objectivity, and Christian forgiveness--and applies the lessons learned to our hyper-racial, dishonest, confused, and disintegrating national discourse. What becomes clear is, first, a warning that our future is looking very dark indeed if we continue on this road. But also that there is hope that America can unite under its founding principles and can continue to be a beacon to the world--where racism and bigotry remain relics of the past. Robert D. Leigh retired from the Army Reserves in 2006 and from the Veteran's Administration in 2020 after a thirty-two-year nursing career. He came to manhood in Baltimore County, Maryland where he developed his life-long pursuits of shooting, hiking, camping, white-water kayaking, playing music, bike riding, reading and acting. Being in the Boomer generation that witnessed the end of Jim Crow, the Civil Rights era, the end of the Cold War, and the realization of equal treatment of everyone in society, upon retirement he saw the rise of Antiracism through a lens that gave stark clarity to our current reality. A lens that is mostly ignored by most voices today. This work is the product of two years of watching, thinking, and responding to our COVID world and beyond.
Move over, Mark Twain Make room, Oscar Wilde Here comes a fresh set of unique witticisms and wisdom "ditties," specially made to match the follies and messes of our modern age In Faith & Funnies: Wit & Wisdom from the Porch Swing, author Robert D. Dean gifts readers with this charming collection of original quotations and inspirations, culled from over ten years of the author's social media posts, dating back to 2011. Readers will find oodles of quotations, custom-fit for a vast array of events and situations in their lives. Inspired by observations of human behavior, various news stories, personal conversations, arguments, sermons, much-needed common sense, and other people's social media posts, Dean's cozy collection offers readers plenty of food for thought to chew on, with a good dose of homegrown faith in God spun into the mix. This book, designed and divided into a variety of wit and wisdom under direct biblical inspiration, is sure to delight, entertain, and educate readers of all ages, with a little touch of wit, wisdom, and pithy insight from the author's own comfy porch swing. So grab a steamy cup of coffee or tea, pull up a chair (or swing ), kick off those shoes, and get ready to smile, chuckle, and reflect on the glory of our gracious, heavenly Father
