Tim Phillips

God does not intend for us to fight our battles alone. Our battles do not disqualify us from his grace—no matter what they are. The two CORE for Men studies—Redeemed and Transformed—each feature five raw and real video stories (DVD/video streaming sold separately) of men who have fought with feelings of isolation and disqualification. Through these personal stories of brokenness and redemption, you and your group will be encouraged to step out of shame and into your own God-shaped stories.Sessions and Contributors include: Called (Mariano Rivera, pitcher for New York Yankees)Redemption (Kyle Oxford, tattoo artist)Sons (Tommy Green, lead singer for the metal/hardcore band Sleeping Giant)Restoration (Robert Irving III, music director for Miles Davis)Purpose (Tom Paterson, master strategic thinker)Brought to you by the men behind the organization Promise Keepers, the passion behind the CORE for Men studies is to create spaces where men have permission to be real—where men discover they are not alone with the kind of doubts and fears they face everyday.CORE is a biblical expression of solidarity that will lead you back to a God who's in the business of turning brokenness into forgiveness and pain into a new and fulfilling purpose.Designed for use with the Redeemed: Turning Brokenness into Something Beautiful Video Study available on DVD or streaming video, sold separately.

God has redeemed you. Now he's transforming you. Unlike redemption, we have to participate in our own spiritual transformation...but God doesn't ask us to do it alone. The two CORE for Men studies—Redeemed and Transformed—each feature five raw and real video stories (DVD/video streaming sold separately) of men who have fought with feelings of isolation and disqualification. Through these personal stories of brokenness and transformation, you and your group will be encouraged to step out of stagnancy and into your own God-shaped stories.Sessions and Contributors include: Identity (Propaganda, poet and activist)Transformation (Willie Alfonso, chaplain for the New York Yankees)Brotherhood (Sam & Emmanuel Acho, NFL players)Choices (Jerry Quiroz, professional soccer player)Reload (Clint Bruce, US Navy SEAL)Brought to you by the men behind the organization Promise Keepers, the passion behind the CORE for Men studies is to create spaces where men have permission to be real—where men discover they are not alone with the kind of doubts and fears they face everyday.CORE is a biblical expression of solidarity that will lead you back to a God who's in the business of turning brokenness into forgiveness and pain into a new and fulfilling purpose.Designed for use with the Transformed: Embracing Our True Identity and Purpose Video Study available on DVD or streaming video, sold separately.

God has redeemed you. Now he's transforming you. Unlike redemption, we have to participate in our own spiritual transformation...but God doesn't ask us to do it alone. The two CORE for Men studies—Redeemed and Transformed—each feature five raw and real video stories of men who have fought with feelings of isolation and disqualification. Through these personal stories of brokenness and transformation, you and your group will be encouraged to step out of stagnancy and into your own God-shaped stories.Sessions and Contributors include: Identity (Propaganda, poet and activist)Transformation (Willie Alfonso, chaplain for the New York Yankees)Brotherhood (Sam & Emmanuel Acho, NFL players)Choices (Jerry Quiroz, professional soccer player)Reload (Clint Bruce, US Navy SEAL)Brought to you by the men behind the organization Promise Keepers, the passion behind the CORE for Men studies is to create spaces where men have permission to be real—where men discover they are not alone with the kind of doubts and fears they face everyday.CORE is a biblical expression of solidarity that will lead you back to a God who's in the business of turning brokenness into forgiveness and pain into a new and fulfilling purpose.Designed for use with the Transformed: Embracing Our True Identity and Purpose Video Study available on DVD or streaming video, sold separately. This pack contains: CORE for Men: Transformed Study Guide CORE for Men: Transformed Video Study DVD (streaming video access included)

God does not intend for us to fight our battles alone. Our battles do not disqualify us from his grace—no matter what they are. The two CORE for Men studies—Redeemed and Transformed—each feature five raw and real video stories of men who have fought with feelings of isolation and disqualification. Through these personal stories of brokenness and redemption, you and your group will be encouraged to step out of shame and into your own God-shaped stories.Sessions and Contributors include: Called (Mariano Rivera, pitcher for New York Yankees)Redemption (Kyle Oxford, tattoo artist)Sons (Tommy Green, lead singer for the metal/hardcore band Sleeping Giant)Restoration (Robert Irving III, music director for Miles Davis)Purpose (Tom Paterson, master strategic thinker)Brought to you by the men behind the organization Promise Keepers, the passion behind the CORE for Men studies is to create spaces where men have permission to be real—where men discover they are not alone with the kind of doubts and fears they face everyday.CORE is a biblical expression of solidarity that will lead you back to a God who's in the business of turning brokenness into forgiveness and pain into a new and fulfilling purpose.This pack contains: CORE for Men: Redeemed Study Guide CORE for Men: Redeemed Video Study DVD (streaming video access included)

Every organisation likes to think it makes decisions based on evidence. Not just any evidence, but the best evidence. But the reality is that we still make a lot of decisions based on gut feel. We do things because they seem right. In Data-driven business Tim Phillips shows that our gut misleads us. We are slaves to all sorts of biases that that we feel apply to other people, never to us. We cling to our beliefs too long, we listen too much to the people who shout loudest, we change our opinion based on how well information is presented, we overvalue quick results, we don't plan for rare events, and we credit ourselves for being clever when we were just lucky.When we trust our gut, we don't follow the numbers: we don't measure costs, because we are too busy measuring the benefits. We assume that X caused Y, but don't measure whether it did. We don't bother to find out the real situation before we make a decision, and we don't compare what happens to what we planned. There are two main reasons: many of us don't know how to measure or look for the information we need; and most of us wouldn't have the faintest idea what to do with the data even if it fell onto our desk.Data-driven business is about how to recognise when gut feel needs a helping hand, and how to read what the numbers tell you better than the next guy. Data-driven business is about how to:* recognise when your decisions need more data;* look for the data you need. Some of it may be sitting there, waiting, and a lot of it is free;* make simple insights out of what you know already, by measuring or modelling it better;* avoid the basic errors that come from jumping to conclusions based on bad data or bad logic.The professionals are revolutionising what we can do with data; this book shows how you can tap into it cheaply and quickly in order to gain a business advantage.And it's about how you can create a team that trusts data and acts on it at the right time.

We have always learned through stories, and in Game of Thrones on Business managers learn from the parallels drawn between HBO's global phenomenon and today's business world. The authors also use stories and characters from the series to breathe life into management theory. Readers will discover:* What Tywin Lannister has in common with Steve Jobs;* Why Ned Stark should have had a scenario-planning meeting;* What Daenerys Targaryen can teach us about servant leadership;* How to network like Littlefinger;* Why behaving like Jon Snow will just antagonise your boss.Game of Thrones may look like a story that is as far removed from modern business as is possible, but look a little closer and you'll notice that the differences are merely superficial: that hostile small council meeting is a boardroom showdown, Daenerys Targaryen is the business ingenue you can't afford to disregard and the White Walkers are a slowly advancing threat to your company's survival.If you think you can stomach the cut and thrust of business this book will show you the insider tricks for success and the hidden pitfalls to watch out for. But remember, if you want to go all the way it takes full commitment: when you play the game of thrones you win or you die. There is no middle ground.

Machiavelli based The Prince on his profound understanding of human nature. This short treatise on Renaissance statecraft and power has been controversial and inspiring since its first publication 500 years ago. Machiavelli's analysis of the ways men seize, retain, and lose power was the first analysis of realpolitik and has been used ever since as a handbook for manipulating events to one's own advantage. In Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince Tim Phillips interprets Machiavelli's incisive work for today's business world. Twenty-first century readers will discover:* Why you'll lose power unless you use it;* How to to set tough targets for yourself;* Why you should befriend your enemy's enemy;* Ways to send messages through your actions, not your words;* Why nothing fails like success.Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince is not a substitute for the original. Its purpose is simply to analyse the timeless nature of Machiavelli's insights and bring them to life with modern business and political examples. This brilliant interpretation of The Prince, often regarded as the first work of modern philosophy, is an entertaining accompaniment to one of the world's most useful (and notorious) books.