Team Book Reviews Samples For Students

Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book “Team of Rivals” is such a wonderful except at the presidential level. Goodwin allows the reader to understand the political rivalry that normally occurs in the political scene by specifically analyzing how President Abraham Lincoln was able to put together his team. She clearly explains to the public that cabinet plays a key leadership role of the country while the president is just the one responsible and if controlled well it can establish a better working relationship (Doris, 2011 p. 6).

Goodwin explains further that Lincoln with his good intention appointed the able men to the ...

Bainbridge, B. (1991). The Birthday Boys. London: Hachette UK.
“The Birthday Boys” is an acclaimed piece of literary work by Beryl Bainbridge. This novel was published in the year 1991and presents an imaginary tale of South Pole mission by captain Robert Falcon Scott. This story describes the emotional aspect of human endurance and misguided audacity in a very realistic manner. This paper intends to discuss the novel with a focuses on courage as central them of the story.
Beryl Bainbridge is an English author who is named as one of the greatest authors of the United Kingdom. The author ...

Dale Carnegie’s Suggestions Related to Marketing

Dale Carnegie, through his famous book on building relationships, advises marketers to deal in an effective way with customers to win their minds. He puts forward certain simple principles that marketers often fail to use in their day to day interpersonal relationships with customers and fellow team members. The fundamental technique of handling customers, according to Carnegie, is avoiding criticism. Since the resentment caused by criticism disheartens others, a marketer should desist criticizing a customer or a competitor. For example, if a company openly criticizes or condemns a competitor, its action cannot harm the competitor in anyway. Instead, it compromises its own image and ...

1. What are the main themes in the book as they relate to the world of work?
2. How can I see these themes being applied in my experience of the workplace?
You must first set a mission in your life; it could be your professional life as well. Having set your mission, you have to set your goal, short or long-term, in such a way to achieve the goals without any deviation from your original mission, regardless of the changing scenario in your professional or business environment. You must not give room to others, like the devil in ...

The issues highlighted in the book corroborate with my ministry setting. New hope church has brought all of them together in the United States. The lesson from such a situation is that there is optimism in life irrespective of the challenges in life. People should learn to have hope and not loose be pessimistic about tomorrow in hard and trying times. With the help of good shepherd evangelical covenant church the Korean Americans built a congregation. The lesson a person can learn from this is there are compassionate and selfless people; and can help each other. People can learn that not everybody ...

Peter Block defines leadership as an act of stewardship where an individual commits to doing good for the sake of the community. This symbolic idea redefines the term leadership by ensuring that leadership is a form of partnership and commitment to improving a greater society and calls this act stewardship. In addition, leaders can be involved in building the economy by seeking teamwork from the people surrounding. This act is contrary to the mainstream idea of a leadership that defines it as singular and one with power and authority over the people. Thus, Peter Block asserts that leadership should be grounded to ...

Introduction

Organizations are being forced to change rapidly in order to survive today’s technological world. Due to globalization, computerization and advanced communication, these changes are expected and must be acknowledged as the new norm. Today’s world requires managers to understand, accommodate and use change as part of their jobs. If the reality of change is resisted, conflicts are bound to arise leading to job dissatisfaction, reduced performance, and reduced morale. Dan Cohen and John Kotter in their book, the heart of change, interviewed several successful leaders in order to discover what contributes to successful change. According to these ...

‘She wins you win’ is Gail Evans book and its focus is ensuring that women succeed in the business world. The book tells the women all the rules they need to use in order to survive in the male dominated world of business. The book is about how to get ahead in the work place by understanding the unwritten rules that are applied in the work environment. Gail in the book informs the readers that it should not be enough that they understand the rules that the men made but rather they should create their own rules. In the ...

Many veterans have written war memoirs in recent times in which they narrate their own personal combat adventures in a very straightforward manner. Although many of these soldiers-turned-authors shy away from emphasizing on the mental toll of war, we all know that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in the past ten years have taken a tremendous toll on the soldiers and their families. Thus, what sets Brian Castner’s amazing memoir, “The Long Walk: A Story Of War And The Life That Follows,” apart is the fact that he does not flinch when taking a look at postwar life. Brian Castner, ...

Managing the team is an art rather than a science. There are no specific rules on how to manage a team and how to get the most out of the team. One leader may use different strategies and techniques in order to get the most out from the team, whereas another leader might come up with different style to enhance the productivity of the team. This essay highlights the philosophy of leadership from the perspective of Phil Jackson. The overall essay analyzes leadership and how Jackson built the team as explained by him in his book Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a ...

The Five Dysfunctions of a team is a powerful book that offers a practical framework for people particularly the readers to form successful and formidable teams within an organization. Patrick Lencioni is the author of the book. He is the president and founder of the Table group, a consulting firm that focus on organization health and executive team management. The book published in the United States by Jossey-Bass Publishers in 2002.

Sources of Information

Five dysfunctions of a team have two parts the fable, which is a fictional tale with short vignettes and demonstrations. The second part entails the models that serve as a guidebook for strategies and achieving ...

Abstract

Efficient teamwork is an important prerequisite of a company’s productivity (Maddux, 1994, p.8). This statement can be substantiated by the fact that synergistic effects arise, when several individuals and entities start to work together. However, as it was emphasized by P.Lencioni (2010), the team-building and subsequent effective functioning of the team requires meeting two criteria (pp.9-10).
Firstly, the group of people shall constitute a team by sharing goals, as well as rewards and responsibilities, stemming from the achievement of these goals (Lencioni, 2006, p.9). Secondly, the members to a team shall be ready to invest significant time and ...

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, a best seller by Patrick Lencioni who is a renowned speaker and consultant, was published in the year 2002 and since it’s publication it has helped many organizations in minimizing internal politics and cut throat behavior among employees of an organization. It has been helpful to the organizations in such a way that its effects were seen beyond the companies; in schools, government organizations, non government organizations, judiciary and political arena.

The author has successfully tried to explore the elementary reasons behind the internal politics and provided effective tips to prevail over basic human tendencies that ...

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

Analysis
Patrick Lencioni’s piece, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A leadership fable, is a must read book for managers and all stakeholders in a business organization. The book offers a rare insight into the concept of team works and lays down all the factors important to the success of a team work. The book explores the various theories on which managers can rely to facilitate effective team work within their various organizations. The book is very informative and addresses the most likely pitfalls that an organization is likely to face when enforcing a team work policy. The better part of the book ...

“The Monkey Wrench Gang” is a novel that was written by Edward Abbey an American famous and fictitious author who lived between years 1927 to the year 1989.The novel was published in the year 1975. The novel is important as far as environmental issues are concerned as it talks about the use of sabotage to protest against environmental damaging. The environmental damaging activities had been witnessed in the Southwest United States. Abbey was influenced by the term “monkeywrench", and this was interpreted to mean any sabotage machine that was used to fight for environmental conservation in the Southwestern United ...

Book Review – The Extraordinary Leader

Book Review – The Extraordinary Leader

The first edition of the book, which was published in 2002, drew rave reviews for the ground-breaking research on leadership. Their focus had been on balancing and maximizing the strengths as opposed to just correcting the errors. The second edition is completely revised with more global outlook and new chapters regarding the core topic of strengths.
Figure 1: The Leadership Tent Floor

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The book starts by listing the sixteen variables that form the significant unknowns upon which the leadership depends on. In order to demystify the leadership, they undertook an empirical research. Their empirical ...

Summary

The book “Leading With the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business and Life” was published in 2001 by Mike Krzyzewski and Donald Phillips. Primarily, the book talks about various aspects of leadership, especially how one earns it, practices it, and how they use it to improve themselves and their organizations. The book gives a detailed account of Coach K’s background where he lived with parents who demanded integrity and honesty in all his undertakings always mentored him. Furthermore, the book recounts Coach K’s experiences at the U.S. Military playing under the tutelage of coach Bobby ...

Senge, Peter M. The Fifth Discipline. New York: Broadway Business, 1997.
I was dreaming to read this book for several years and I found it excellent for clarity, content, and examples used by the author. I had moved through the book with lightning speed. I was able to remember main ideas due to the multiple details offered by the author which I found in the cases. Often, the authors of similar books draw banal examples. It was a nice surprise for me when I did not find any over-applied solutions in the book. I found the book very useful ...

Book Review: The Leadership Challenge by Barry Z. Posner and James M. Kouzes

First written in 1987 by two authors considered to be experts in the field of leadership, The Leadership Challenge has gone to become one the most trusted voices on the subject of leadership as well as an all time best seller leadership book. One of the reasons for this is that the authors, Barry Z. Posner and James M. Kouzes, in the true spirit of leadership, have churned out regular revisions to their original work, continuously adding to and improving upon content based on the ongoing changes in the corporate environment. The classic’s fourth edition has been released ...

Leadership is the main concept in the modern business and private life. It helps to distinguish successful managers and those who needs to learn more in order to become effective. Today there are many experts in the leadership sphere. However, John Maxwell is the most experienced writer and teacher on the subject of leadership. He has lots of writings and books in which he presents wealthy information on how to become a leader and how to improve the existing personal leadership qualities. Maxwell’s leadership book series cover different issues including attitude, equipping, relationships and leadership.
Leadership 101 is a ...

Book Review No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller

Summary of the Book
Harry Markopolos introduces the book to the reader on the accounted date of December 11, 2008. December 11, 2008 was a crucial day Bernie Madoff was arrested. Madoff was arrested for creating and running a Ponzi scheme. The Ponzi scheme was the largest in history of United States. Markopolos makes sure that the reader comprehends the revelations by incorporating a short story of a man in a plane. The man is shocked by the streaming exposures on the CNBC. The man reveals to his wife that they have lost millions of dollars they had invested with Madoff. However, the ...

Human Resource Development (HRD) is a function that helps employees develop their abilities and skill sets to suit the job requisite and to enhance the growth within the organization. It includes training, mentoring, coaching, succession planning among others. HRD focuses on the development of the superior workforce for the organizations to achieve their goals in service to their customers. While planning to attain these requirements at its best, in the past, the leaders of the organizations have looked at the employees as a channel to attain the established targets. Their focus was on giving strength to these channels in all the ...

“The Goal”, published in 1984 is a novel written by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox in a collaborative effort. The book is based on the Theory of Constraints (TOC) of Dr. Goldratt. Narrated in the first person, the reader is introduced to hard working and idealist production head Alex Rogo, who heads the local plant of the Unico Family’s UniWare division. (The book is set in 1984,before the dot com bubble when Japanese imports are starting to hurt US manufacturers.) We start from a morning on which Alex , who has joined the company only six months back, is ...

The Village is a well acclaimed book written by well known military writer Mr. Bing West. The book is based on the Vietnam War. This book paints a complete picture of the Vietnam War and the mental, physical, psychological conditions of fighting soldiers during and after of the war. Since Mr. Bing west has worked on the several important posts of American defense and has served as marine infantry officer during Vietnam War itself, the writer is well aware of the war conditions, policies of the war and the state of mind of soldiers. Bing in this book has portrayed the ...

My work is devoted to the book “Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town” by Jon Krakauer. It is devoted to the series of sexual rapes which happened at the University of Montana, in the town of Missoula. Missoula is an ordinary college town, which has a state university with its own football team, the Grizzlies. Between years 2008 and 2012 there were over 300 sexual assaults reported to the local police station. Most of these cases were settled by the university or local authority. The author of the book examines several cases more deeply and ...

In many great companies, the Level 5 leader has been found to be the most important factor for the company’s factor. It is not because they are able to do a great job themselves. Rather, it is because they are able to bring together disciplined and talented people to do the task. The Level 5 Leader simply sets the way for all the others to do the work. Among the four stages or principles, the Level 5 Leader is the most important to understand and emulate in an education or school environment.
The Level 5 Leader is not ...

Book Introduction

There had been a lot of books that tackled the way how a company could excel in a certain field. There are books that exposed the mistakes that companies usually make while there are also other books that demand action done by these companies. In Jim Collins’ book titled “Good to Great”, there is no such thing as mistakes and mediocrity. For him, it’s the long term characteristics of a company that matter. There may be several companies who were genetically destined to become a large-scale enterprise in the future, but clearly, that is not the case for all companies. There are companies ...

This paper has analyzed the problem of what impact does leadership have on quality. The scope of this work involves the specific work in the book called Leadership for quality by an author Juran J.M. It has reviewed various concepts by the author.

The approach to this problem has involved analyzing three functions of businesses, planning control and improvement in quality. Also, an analysis has been made in the work force part in order to get an idea of the factors that will lead to their improvement in quality.

The results in this analysis are that quality can be ...

D. D. Guttenplan's decision to make Irving David’s libel suit against Lipstadt Deborah and Penguin Books his subject matter in his book entitled “The Holocaust on Trial” seems to be quite challenging. It is, however, eventually justified. The American writer, Guttenplan who currently resides in London was present in every day of the trial that took place in the year 1999. There were two things of varying importance at stake: the status or the position in the legislation of the Holocaust and its constituents that were definable and the overall outlook of David Irving reputation. On the face ...

Book Review: Creating Innovators:

Book Review: Creating Innovators
Tony Wagner’s book, “Creating Innovators” is a fascinating book that outlines how parents and schools can educate children to be “innovators”. An innovator is described by Wagner through interviews with several professionals in many fields of business, government and education. The common characteristics are: curious; collaborative; integrative thinker; action oriented (Wagner 16). How these qualities are nurtured in our children happens both in the home and at school. All of the young adults that Mr. Wagner interviewed for his book possessed that traits and skills.
The curiosity begins at home and needs to ...

Leading change by John Kotter provides a couple of processes that organizations can use to achieve the set goals. Apart from organizations, these processes can also be used by individuals; whether they are leaders or not. More to it, the author has also outlined where and how the top performers fail during the process of changing. He has also provided practical resources for individuals that are charged with the responsibilities of ensuring the needed change is pursued. To avoid failure and disappointment when effecting changes the author has provided a number of steps that are effective. According to Jung (2013), changes ...

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Written by Edson Margaret, “Wit” revolves around the life of a woman who is faced by a number of challenges that force her to make different life choices. The storyline revolves around the life of Doctor Bearing Vivian, who throughout the novel deals with a diagnosis of ovarian cancer stage-four. Readers are made aware of the fact that Bearing’s life is governed by special relationships that in turn end up influencing the lives of those involved. For instance, there are apprentice-mentor connections that end up affecting the lives of those involved in aspects of behavior or society especially ...

Compiled by Silberman together with his colleague Freda Hansburg, “PeopleSmart” is undoubtedly a useful tool for learning that should be adopted for operational managers as well as corporate executives. It is an easy book to understand that is well organized and user friendly. PeopleSmart is a book with the potential of transforming the work environment particularly due to its practicality. For people interested in sharpening their interpersonal skills and individual growth, the inspirational book is a sure guide for success.
The main aim of the book is to encourage its readers to be socially astute through attempting to mould them into ...

Going Rogue: An American Story is a memoir written by Sarah Palin offering a sharp focus on the political life of Sarah Palin. The book offers a clear perception of Palin’s take on the John McCain campaigns, challenges, divergence in ideologies in the team as she gunned for one of the topmost national offices in America. The former Alaska governor comes out open on various accusations that had been leveled on her by campaign-mates, the fourth estate and the general public(Whetsell,5). The name “Going Rogue” is derived from the phrase coined by McCain political advisers who were not party ...

Introduction

Rapid changes in market trends and consumer behaviors are considered as the top enemies of profit-driven organizations. In some cases, even not-for-profit organizations see these two factors as the biggest sources of management problems and concerns. Various business planners and analysts believe that continuous learning in the workplace should be promoted in order to prevent unnecessary losses in resources and even a widespread collapse in operations.
Making sure that every organizational team member is equipped with the most appropriate knowledge and skills set, and making sure that they are appropriate for the current market trends and behavior is therefore ...

Chapter 1

I found the role of the internet in conducting fast and cost-effective marketing research very much interesting. More importantly, tracing the consumer’s online buying behavior and suggesting recommendations for them from time to time as practiced by online retail giants like Amazon.com amazed me. Also, the concept of mobile marketing by adopting the GPS technology to locate the buyers and send them information about the special offers for the day is quite appealing. I also found the concept of relationship marketing more interesting. The interrelationship between all the stakeholders is the key for the success of any business ...

We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (Phillip K. Dick) – Air Raid (John Varley).
‘We Can Remember It for You Wholesale’ is a futuristic short story written by Phillip K. Dick, centered on the concept of memory manipulation. It takes on the undiscovered fields of new age science. The concepts involved in the short story are so complex and underdeveloped even in this age and time. But still the author immaculately and ostentatiously nails his narrative. In the same sense, ‘Air Raid’ written by John Varley, seems to be the perfect match for the pairing. Both these short stories ...

Book Report on “No Easy Day” by Mark Owen

This bestselling book is an autobiography of a United States Navy Seal who was involved in one of the major events in the fight against terrorism. The book is based on the super orchestrated mission that led to the killing of the world’s most wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden in 2011. The book therefore gives us insightful information on what happened on the period that Laden was killed by the United States Navy Seals. Osama bin Laden was executed after a raid in his house in Abbottabad, Pakistan. In this book, the first chapters reveal that Owen is very passionate ...

Motivation is one of the major factors that must be incorporated within the internal environment of an organization. All organizations must work with a team to ensure that they achieve their selected goals and objectives. A team is made up of employees who are very important when it comes to the normal operation of an organization. Therefore, employees must be motivated in order to maintain the spirit of work. The several ways in which they might be motivated is by involving them in decision making process, creating employee time by the managers, and offering intrinsic and extrinsic awards to employee ...

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT

INTRODUCTION
Unilever is a multinational corporation that has been formed by the joint venture of the Dutch and British companies. It owns more than 400 brands worldwide and is operational in more than 100 countries. The mission of the company is to add vitality to life. “We meet every day needs for nutrition, hygiene and personal care with brands that help people look good, feel good, and get more out of life” (Unilever.co.uk, 2014). The company changed its logo in 2004 to represent its cultural diversity as the new logo contains blue color and 25 signs. All the icons ...

Quiet Strength by Tony Dungy is an interesting, inspiring, and educative book that combines both athletic and Christ-centered approach to life. It discusses the importance of faith in relation to leadership. The book goes over story after story as it illustrates on how to tackle challenges and situations particularly in leadership. In the book, Dungy reflects on symbolic stories that are based on his football career and his walk with God. Following his victory as the first African American coach in Suoer Bowl 41, Dungy reflect on how he went through hard times and major challenges but he managed ...

Into thin Air is a personal account of the author’s expedition on the tallest mountain in the world. “I stood atop Mount Everest, gasping for air at the topmost limit of earth’s atmosphere.
Standing on the top of the world, I cleared the ice from my oxygen mask, put my shoulder against the wind, and stared at the vast view of earth below. I understood on some dim level that it was a spectacular sight. I'd been dreaming about this moment for many months. But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, ...

Introduction

Brookfield believes in treating people as adults and employing the “’3 R’s, respect, research, (and) responsiveness.” He uses a four step process to summarize, analyze and reflect to re-energize teaching. This is designed to encourage students to reflect their teacher’s energy and connect with the lessons’ content. He feels the purpose of a critical reflection is to enlighten teaching and the point of view of the student, colleagues, literature in addition to our own viewpoint should all be employed. He terms these viewpoints as “lenses” and uses this term throughout his writing. .
Brookfield recognizes the different modalities, and ...

In his compelling book “31 Days: The Crisis That Gave Us the Government We Have Today,” Barry Werth sheds new light on the four weeks after President Richard M. Nixon resigned and departed from the White House in 1974, and the ongoing effects of that period. After Nixon’s departure when Gerald Ford reluctantly assumed presidency, the country was reeling from Watergate scandal. President Ford desperately needed to prove himself by stabilizing the nation, deciding whether his disgraced predecessor would be pardoned, and establishing his own administration. All in all, Werth’s book highlights the burden of the demanding ...

Question 1:

Kennedy and his team have created a data-driven approach. They aren’t just guessing or using their best judgment about what makes sense. Explain how Kennedy and his team use and rely on data in designing the violence and drug intervention programs and – once the programs are functioning – to evaluate whether they are working.
Kennedy’s team are very much data driven in their approach as they tend to focus on the rude statistics which indicate that criminals have a lot of avenues to choose when it comes to rooting out the causes and effects of crime in the various ...

Background

Thinking Strategically by Dixit and Nalebuff is a book that aims to give strategies to help the reader increase their IQ while not necessarily providing solutions to all problems. The book is subtitled "The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life." The book is a worldwide bestseller because of the timeless advice, strategies and case examples given throughout its pages. The book was originally written in 1993 but is still listed as one of the best business books around.

Overview

The first chapter of any book usually sets the tone for the rest of the work. In this book, ...

Introduction

The main mission of the ethnographer outlined in this paper was to carry out an investigation of the traditional Han society and culture (Jarvenpa, 1998). The ethnographer investigated how the Han lived in the early days, including if they still hunted for food or fished, how the Indians and members of the white community interacted, the communities’ hopes and fears, and how they saw their future. In this regard, the ethnographer investigated the traditional Han society and culture through cultural immersion and participants’ observation of the members of the community.

Methods

Methods: The ethnographer used two methods of collecting information. ...

BOOK REVIEW

Book Review
Politics has always remained a subject of intense study. Students of political science, brought up on the ideals of Western Civilizational thought, right from Plato to Westphalia, have starry-eyed notions about how the world’s largest democracy, the USA, functions. A close corollary is an intense curiosity about the goings-on behind the curtains in Washington, arguably the biggest seat of power of democracy in the modern world. It is this world that Mark Leibovich (2013) writes about in his book ‘This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral- Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking!’ and the outcome is a ...

David Ogilvy is often referred to as one of the most remarkable individuals to ever grace the field of advertising. Hayden (2013) writes that "in his years as an advertising executive and copywriter, Ogilvy created some of the world's most successful and iconic marketing campaigns and was sought after for his information rich, soft sell ads" (p.1). His book, On Advertising, is a confessional of sorts, where Ogilvy provides the reader, more specifically those within the field of advertising and marketing, with a considerable amount of insight into navigating the creative world. Ogilvy’s point is to offer readers ...

The issues in the network society have attracted enormous attention in the recent times. Rather than totalizing coeval working experience, the book “Work’s Intimacy” written by Melissa Gregg focuses on the ramifications and contradictions of professionals that hold a mid-rank, formerly defined as the white-collar workers. Mobile and online technologies have a great impact on the work, life and social relations of the people, especially professionals. After examining 26 professionals from four organizations, namely, education, telecommunications, government and broadcasting in Brisbane, Australia for three years, Gregg’s book bridges the gap in the existing literature on digital labor. In ...

Summary : Managing business ethicsLinda K. Trevino & Katherine A. Nelson. Wiley; 5th edition

Chapter 4 – Addressing individuals’ common ethical problems

Ethical issue when people work together (privacy, discrimination, sexual harassment or simply how people get along. Key is fairness meaning equity, reciprocity, impartiality
- Equitable is when something is divided between 2 people according to the worth & inputs of the 2 individuals. Most people think it’s unfair when 2 people have performed the same duty but receive a different share of the reward
- Reciprocity: “if you do this for me I’ll do this for you”. Most ppl think it’s unfair if ...

Abstract

This document includes the concepts and themes of leadership as presented in the book namely Transformational Leadership by Bernard M. Bass and Ronald E. Riggio. In addition, the principles of managements as discussed by Andrew J. Dubrin have also been incorporated in the paper. In this document, there is an argument presented by these gentlemen on leadership by using separate cases of different leaders around the world.
For instance, the case study presented by Bernard M. Bass and Ronald E. Riggio are Herb Kelleher as CEO and founder of Southwest Airlines’ success story while on the other hand, ...

Discuss conflict resolution in relationship to art, sports, media, and communications

The idea most people hold concerning conflict resolution is that of a mediator negotiating two warring sides. However, mediation is only a small component of a broader spectrum involving multiple processes such as dialogue, peace-media, facilitation and cooperative problem solving.
Conflict Resolution (or CR as it has come to be recently described) is a skill that following the last decade of the 20th Century has become very critical. It teaches individuals to look at problems from different dimensions and approach them with a drive towards solving them rather than aggression. After the events following the World War II most countries felt the need ...

Book Review

The Book is basically detailed in defining the two different perspectives of two different cultures in medical sense of being. The first culture is about US biomedicine and how the medication affects people as well as how it can be used as a form of social control. The other perspective includes the Hmong perspective which is entirely about spiritual causes and other causes that are not related to biomedical performances or the concept of biomedical healing. The book is excellent in terms of how it defines the distant gap between the two cultures and uses Lia, a Hmong child, as a bridge ...

Leading a Local Congregation Based On Stewardship and Institutional Development

“When a group of Individuals in any arena of life does well, one of the keys to understanding their success is to examine the leadership practices of the key leaders of that,”
“Lead Like Butler” focuses on the manner in which a team leader can influence success through the building of a strong value system. Its focus on the role of the leader is meant to point to the fact that no other figure in a group or convention is of more influence than its leader. The book holds the view that success in a group is based on building a value system which serves ...

Management

Introduction
In his book, “Supportive Leadership: The New Role of Leaders in the 21st Century”, Gunther H. Schust declares that the paradigms of management and leadership are changing in an increasingly globalized world. Schust points out that leaders could get the job done with blunt tactics of hiring and firing. However, the need of the hour is for leaders to professionally select employees, support them in their endeavors, challenge them in the work environment, make them further qualified and enable them to function seamlessly in a networked world. Schust (8) uses the new requirements of leaders to call for ...

Abstract

This book review examines how Tony Dungy deciphers the role of mentoring by leaders, in creating a lasting legacy of significance and integrity in the business or work of others. Written by a man all too familiar with the glories of NFL success, Tony Dungy experienced an early on and steadfast fulfillment of his own dreams and goals, whether as player or coach. In this collection of tightly woven symmetry Dungy voices a call for leaders to embrace a genuine interest in the people they manage, coach, nurture, and shepherd. Published by Tyndale House Publishers, a well-known Christian company, author Tony Dungy never struggles ...

No Easy Day: The Autobiography of a Navy SEAL

After having been published in 2012, the book titled No Easy Day: The Autobiography of a Navy SEAL by Mark Owen with co-author Kevin Maurer became a very popular work dedicated to the Navy Seals. Mark Owen was a member of the US Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU). He took part in the mission dedicated to the elimination of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, 2011. Moreover, Owen was a team leader of the unit responsible for the death of bin Laden. Kevin Maurer was involved in military special missions for nine years. So, the experience of both authors became very useful for ...

Book Review of

“The Hot Zone” written by Richard Preston is a non-fiction English book published by Anchor in 1995. It contains 420 pages and based on Richard Preston article “Crisis in the Hot Zone.” It is a thriller that deals with the source and occurrences relating to viral hemorrhagic fever especially Ebola viruses and Marburg viruses. The filo viruses, Ebola Virus called EBOV, Sudan Virus called SUDV, Marburg Virus called MARV and Ravn Virus called RAVV are the agents of level four of Biosafety. They are enormously hazardous to humans due to being very contagious and with an extraordinary casualty rate. There is ...

Management

Listening is an art and the power of listening has been a point of discussion among experts in the field of communication and decision-making. Ferrari (2012), in ‘Power Listening: Mastering the Most Critical Business Skill of All,’ says that “If you’re like I was, you’ve probably never thought very carefully about listening before; but I’ve realized that listening is a skill that demands conscious attention and constant practice, because only through good listening can any of us gather the information we need to do our jobs well.” This is a fact as in many business dealings, a lot of business ...