Greg Stone

Defining Hybrid Heroes: The Leadership Spectrum from Scoundrel to Saint defines the hero (and his or her journey) from a hybrid perspective, exploring the spectrum from scoundrel to saint. It utilizes a more dynamic and situational outlook, regarding heroism not only as a personal characteristic, but also as a series of heroic acts within a given situation. The book examines the hybrid hero from several distinctive points of view, e.g. through lenses dominated by fiction, business, politics and psychology, and paints a new, more complex portrait that takes full advantage of the authors’ varied backgrounds. Inge Brokerhof has an academic background in psychology and has studied the impact of narrative fiction on workplace variables, such as career identity, employability and moral leadership. Stephan Sonnenburg has studied Joseph Campbell and the impact of the hero’s journey on creativity and innovation management. Greg Stone is a communications consultant who teaches executives and professors how to explain their work in clear and compelling language.

Doubt Confronts Rational BeliefWyatt Brown, while visiting his grandmother in a nursing home, meets an elderly black man, Marcus Francis, working on a puzzle. The man, during their first encounter, asks Wyatt about his faith. Wyatt admits doubts on God's existence based on all the brokenness he has experienced in life. Marcus points to his puzzle and compares the pieces to reasons why he believes. He challenges Wyatt to visit him each time he sees his grandmother, and each time he will share a piece of the puzzle of why he believes in not only God, but the personal, relational God of Christianity.The story showcases evidence for the Christian faith in the realistic backdrop of our fallen culture. It also shows the healing power of a caring relationship between two wounded souls, while exploring the evidence for a Creator God and a Saving God."Greg Stone is a gifted storyteller Combined with strong faith, he is a man we should listen to." -Jack Herschend, Retired CEOHerschend Family Entertainment Corporation"Greg writes from a place of deep faith and a creative mind. One can tell in his writing that he comes from a place of experience in ministry." -Rev. John Beaumont, Alongside Ministries Director

Synesthesia alters detective-turned-novelist Ronan Mezini's perceptions. But can it help him find the killer?Detective-turned-novelist Ronan Mezini has skewed perceptions because of a condition called synesthesia, which for him transforms sounds into colors. These visions give him unusual insights that help him solve the case. So when a collection of eccentric - and possibly violent - creative people come together at an elite artists' colony in rural Vermont, murders occur in rapid succession and suspicion falls on everyone as Mezini unearths the founding family's secrets.

Synesthesia alters detective-turned-novelist Ronan Mezini's perceptions. But can it help him find the killer?Detective-turned-novelist Ronan Mezini has skewed perceptions because of a condition called synesthesia, which for him transforms sounds into colors. These visions give him unusual insights that help him solve the case. So when a collection of eccentric - and possibly violent - creative people come together at an elite artists' colony in rural Vermont, murders occur in rapid succession and suspicion falls on everyone as Mezini unearths the founding family's secrets.

They didn't know if he would live, he didn't know he was dead.In this novel of the near-death experience, Greg Stone takes his readers on a rare journey into the Afterlife. His clarity and insight make this adventure a trip you will not want to miss.After the crash, Ray Carte finds himself in a strange world. He meets a spirit guide that he calls Alice who must help him understand his spiritual condition. His only hope for returning to those he loves lies in her lessons.Beyond This Life will change your views of life and death. It will redefine the debate between skeptics and believers. It may prepare you for lessons of life and death you will encounter.Join others readers in exploring amazing realms of... Heaven, Near-Death Experiences, The Afterlife, Souls, Love, Immortality, Spirituality, Philosophy, Science, Purgatory, and Out of Body Experiences.

Preparing for Mediation guides a disputant or litigant through the mediation process, helping them prepare to achieve success in mediation. A party may work through the text on their own or collaborate with their attorney in preparing to negotiate a resolution to a dispute. An invaluable manual attorneys can use to help their clients achieve success.

The Secrets of Peacemaking transcends mundane conflict resolution approaches. This short work explores the foundational principles of peacemaking, which arise from man's essence as an immortal soul. The conflict resolution protocol presented illuminates the path to the Peace of Christ in this world. Secrets provides mediators, reconcilers, peacemakers, and disputants with the core faith-based concepts needed to bring about enduring world peace.

Whether you are branding your company, your product, your service, or yourself, learn to boost the power of your story and convey a compelling message in any setting by incorporating villains, victims, and heroes.Compelling stories exalt, motivate, and acculturate every worker in an enterprise. They also attract customers and media alike. Imagine an elderly man, snowed in, unable to shop for groceries until a supermarket comes to the rescue and delivers his food. The story of this company going out of its way to help a customer in need will resonate not only with consumers but also with employees. This book explains not just how to tell a captivating story, but also what elements—namely, villains, victims, and heroes—it should include in the first place. This approach is based on the notion that in business messaging, the villains may just be your best friends. The "villains" are simply any problems that cause pain, discomfort, or extra expense for customers, who are in effect the "victims." As for the "heroes," they are best illustrated by the supermarket going beyond expectations. Who in business wouldn't want to emulate that company? If your products and services offer real solutions to customers' predicaments, there is nothing more powerful than communicating that message and making sure your potential customers remember it.

Featuring a dazzling collection of color masterpieces, Artful Business gives thinking businesspeople novel tools to fire the imagination. You can turn to any page at random if you are struggling to find creative solutions.Here you will discover that Michelangelo and a modern marketing executive, or Botticelli and a brand manager, have a lot in common.In each chapter you will see sumptuous art and stimulating ideas on facing pages, with probing questions to help you see in a way that will yield new perspectives on strategy or messaging.The 50 chapters are divided into six sections: Projecting Like an Artist (going beyond)Mastering Applied Art (learning the techniques)Eyeing The Mind, Minding the Eye (making visuals count)Mirroring Geniuses (thinking like the great ones)Exploiting the Everyday (using what's in front of you)Venturing Where Only Artists Go (traveling farther)

Unresolved conflict persists when opposing parties become locked in battle. Conflict resembles a runaway train: parties hurtle down the tracks toward disaster with Fate at the controls.Taming the Wolf: Peace through Faith guides readers through the conflict resolution process with practical lessons that address difficult situations that crush our happiness. Taking a faith-based approach, it offers tools and techniques that will help ordinary people become not just mediators, but Franciscan peacemakers.In order to avoid the ruinous consequences of unresolved conflict, something has to change--transformation must occur. Taming the Wolf guides the reader through transformations that lead to reconciliation.Taming the Wolf provides the road map for change when conflict escalates. It brings the power of faith to the peacemaking process with emphasis on spiritual transformation.Taming the Wolf: Peace Through Faith combines contemporary conflict resolution concepts with the peacemaking legacy of St. Francis. Learn how to bring the resources of faith to bear on conflict resolution while undergoing spiritual transformation. Become a peacemaker and tame the wolf that threatens your happiness, joy, and contentment.