Resources
Resisting Happiness
by Matthew Kelly
A true story about why we sabotage ourselves, feel overwhelmed, set aside our dreams, and lack the courage to simply be ourselves… and how to start choosing happiness again.
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t
by Jim Collins
Good is the enemy of great, and that is the reason we have so little that becomes great. This book analyzes good-to-great and comparison companies to discover the essential and distinguishing factors at work.
Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change
By Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler
A thought-provoking book that combines the remarkable insights of behavioral scientists and business leaders with the astonishing stories of high-powered influencers from all walks of life. You’ll be taught each and every step of the influence process–including robust strategies for making change inevitable in your personal life, your business, and your world.
Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box
By The Arbinger Institute
The book’s central insight–that the key to leadership lies not in what we do but in who we are–has proven to have powerful implications not only for organizational leadership but in readers’ personal lives as well.
The Second Harvest: 40 Short Stories to Inspire Your Self-Improvement
By Nabil N. Jamal, PhD
Loaded with 40 remarkable short stories, The Second Harvest promotes self-improvement by inspiring you to adopt a more positive outlook at matters, think out of the box, enhance your self-confidence and decisiveness, embrace change, work on goals, follow through, grab opportunities, and never give up.
The Value of Core Values: Five Keys to Success through Values-Centered Leadership
By Lisa Huetteman
This book challenges anyone leading a business to integrate key ideals into daily operations by using inspiring and practical case studies. By implementing the Five Keys described in this book, any business can become a values-centric organization where the leadership team drives a change in culture leading to sustainable and tangible success. More importantly, leaders can recognize and grow to appreciate that the greatest value of core values is ultimately in the values themselves.
33 Days to Morning Glory: A Do-It-Yourself Retreat In Preparation for Marian Consecration
By Fr. Michael E. Gaitley, MIC
St. Louis de Montfort, St. Maximilian Kolbe, Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, and Blessed John Paul II. Fr. Michael masterfully summarizes their teaching, making it easy to grasp and simple enough to put into practice. More specifically, he weaves their thought into a user-friendly, do-it-yourself retreat that will bless even the busiest of people.
Rejoice and Be Glad (Gaudete Exsultate)
By Pope Francis
Pope Francis wants to speak to your heart, wherever you’re at. In this new apostolic exhortation from Pope Francis, Rejoice and Be Glad, the pope looks at the call to holiness in today’s world, with wit, insight, and encouraging counsel.
7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
By Stephen R. Covey
One of the most inspiring and impactful books ever written, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has captivated readers for 25 years. It has transformed the lives of Presidents and CEOs, educators and parents— in short, millions of people of all ages and occupations.
The Pope and the CEO: John Paul II’s Leadership Lessons to a Young Swiss Guard
By Andreas Widmer
Andreas Widmer gives a behind-the-scenes look into Pope John Paul II, the most authentically and reveals how those memories shaped and forged his success as a corporate executive. In what papal biographer George Weigel calls a powerful example of leadership at work, Widmer recounts his personal experiences serving Saint Pope John Paul II in the Swiss Guard and the secrets of successful leadership that he learned at the feet of the great pope.
Seven Deadly Sins, Seven Lively Virtues (DVD)
By Bishop Robert Barron
Join Bishop Barron for this engaging presentation concerning the seven deadly sins, those great spiritual blocks that inhibit our relationship with God and one another. However, Bishop Barron shows us how to counteract these sinful patterns through a conscious process of the opposing “seven lively virtues.”
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More than IQ
By Daniel Goleman
Everyone knows that high IQ is no guarantee of success, happiness, or virtue, but until Emotional Intelligence, we could only guess why. Daniel Goleman’s brilliant report from the frontiers of psychology and neuroscience offers startling new insight into our “two minds”—the rational and the emotional—and how they together shape our destiny.
Through vivid examples, Goleman delineates the five crucial skills of emotional intelligence and shows how they determine our success in relationships, work, and even our physical well-being. What emerges is an entirely new way to talk about being smart.
Working with Emotional Intelligence
By Daniel Goleman
The secret of success is not what they taught you in school. What matters most is not IQ, not a business school degree, not even technical know-how or years of expertise. The single most important factor in job performance and advancement is emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence is actually a set of skills that anyone can acquire, and in this practical guide, Daniel Goleman identifies them, explains their importance, and shows how they can be fostered.
Adventures in Matthew (Audio CD)
By Jeff Cavins
A wonderful exploration of the Gospel according to Matthew.
Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to Do the Right Thing
By Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe
In their book, Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe explore the insights essential to leading satisfying lives. Encouraging individuals to focus on their own personal intelligence and integrity rather than simply navigating the rules and incentives established by others, Practical Wisdom outlines how to identify and cultivate our own innate wisdom in our daily lives.
The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything
By Stephen M.R. Covey
Trust, says Stephen M.R. Covey, is the very basis of the new global economy, and he shows how trust—and the speed at which it is established with clients, employees, and constituents—is the essential ingredient for any high–performance, successful organization.
The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday with Passion and Purpose
By Matthew Kelly
In The Rhythm of Life, Matthew Kelly exposes the lifestyle challenges and problems that face us in this age obsessed with noise, speed, and perpetual activity. Kelly’s message rings out with a truth that is challenging and unmistakably attractive Who you become is infinitely more important than what you do, or what you have. Are you ready to meet the-best-version-of-yourself?
The Rhythm of Life is a brilliant and clear-eyed rejection of the chaotic lifestyle that has captured the world, written with common sense, humor, and extraordinary insight. This book is destined to change lives!
The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life
By Robin Sharma
Regardless of what you do within your organization and the current circumstances of your life, the single most important fact is that you have the power to show leadership. Wherever you are in your career or life, you should always play to your peak abilities. This book shows you how to claim that staggering power, as well as transform your life—and the world around you—in the process.
The Rhythm of Life is a brilliant and clear-eyed rejection of the chaotic lifestyle that has captured the world, written with common sense, humor, and extraordinary insight. This book is destined to change lives!
Priest, Prophet, King (DVD)
By Bishop Robert Barron
In Priest, Prophet, King, you’ll discover Jesus as the Anointed One; the ultimate priest, prophet, and king foreshadowed throughout the Hebrew Scriptures. Using biblical insights and engaging stories, Bishop Barron affirms that we see Jesus most clearly through the lens of the Old Testament. In this film presentation of Priest, Prophet, King, you can better understand Jesus, become more familiar with Scripture, and realize your own priestly, prophetic, and kingly mission.
The Rhythm of Life is a brilliant and clear-eyed rejection of the chaotic lifestyle that has captured the world, written with common sense, humor, and extraordinary insight. This book is destined to change lives!
First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently
By Gallup Press
Gallup’s research produced 12 simple statements that distinguish the strongest departments of a company from all the rest. First, Break All the Rules is the first book to present this essential measuring stick and to prove the link between employee opinions and productivity, profit, customer satisfaction and the rate of turnover. First, Break All the Rules presents vital performance and career lessons for managers at every level — and best of all, shows you how to apply them to your own situation.
Values, Inc. How Incorporating Values into Business and Life Can Change the World
By Dina Dwyer-Owens
Values, Inc. invites a movement to live right and do right in business and in life for a world in need of direction. That direction shouldn’t just be framed and hung on a wall. Put those values into action, bring those values to life, take a stand and make a difference. The rewards are too great to ignore.
Joy at Work: A Revolutionary Approach to Fun on the Job
By Dennis W. Bakke
Imagine a company where people love coming to work and are highly productive on a daily basis. Imagine a company whose top executives, in a quest to create the most “fun” workplace ever, obliterate labor-management divisions and push decision-making responsibility down to the plant floor. Could such a company compete in today’s bottom-line corporate world? Could it even turn a profit? Well, imagine no more.
In Joy at Work, Dennis W. Bakke tells the true story of this extraordinary company–and how, as its co-founder and longtime CEO, he challenged the business establishment with revolutionary ideas that could remake America’s organizations. It is the story of AES, whose business model and operating ethos is based on a core value of “let’s have fun”!
Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom
By Dr. William Glasser
In Choice Theory, Dr. William Glasser offers a new and far more effective way for people to get along in our lives. For progress in human relationships, he explains that we must give up the punishing, relationship–destroying external control psychology. He goes further and suggests that misery is always related to a current unsatisfying relationship. Choice Theory teaches us that we choose everything we do, including the misery we feel. Other people can neither make us miserable nor make us happy. Dr. Glasser offers Choice Theory, a non-controlling psychology that gives us the freedom to sustain the relationships that lead to healthy, productive lives at home, at school and at work.
How to Develop Your Personal Mission Statement
By Stephen R. Covey
Internationally renowned Dr. Stephen R. Covey teaches about how and why to develop a Personal Mission Statement and gives additional insights and examples of how others have created their mission statements, thus helping you capture yours, so you will be able to lead and govern your life according to your deepest priorities. This audio kit helps you meet your life’s day-to-day challenges by focusing on your long-term vision and avoid diversion and distractions that don’t contribute to your life’s mission, vision and goals so you can become the powerful creative force of your life and influence for good in the lives of others.
Off Balance: Getting beyond the Work-Life Balance Myth to Personal and Professional Satisfaction
By Matthew Kelly
Off Balance is more than just a book. It presents a system that Matthew Kelly uses with his Fortune 500 clients, his team, and himself to drive increasing levels of satisfaction both personally and professionally. He introduces us to the three philosophies of our age that are dragging us down. He teaches us how to cultivate energy so that we have plenty left for our passions when we are finished fulfilling our responsibilities. And finally, in five clear steps, he shows us how to use his Personal and Professional Satisfaction System to establish our priorities and honor them even when we feel pulled in a hundred different directions.
Good to the Core: Building Value with Values
By John G. Blumberg
On the surface, the concept of values is easy to understand. Most of us want to be good to the core. But it is more challenging than it appears on the surface. How do you go about identifying your core values? How do you reinforce those values? How do you integrate them into the fabric of your life and the culture of your business? So many times, it’s not what you say, but how you say it that turns the switch from “off” to “on.” And John Blumberg has “nailed” this all-important topic of “building value with values.”
Doing Business by the Good Book: 52 Lessons on Success Straight from the Bible
By David L. Steward
An indispensable volume that shows how to succeed in business by using the Bible and its lessons as a source of inspiration and guidance. In1990, David L. Steward founded his company, Worldwide Technology, Inc., on a shoestring budget and borrowed money. Doing Business by the Good Book shares the inspiring lessons culled straight from the Bible, that Steward used to build his privately held billion-dollar company into a global information technology enterprise.
Stolen Without A Gun: Confessions from inside history’s biggest accounting fraud–the collapse of MCI Worldcom
By Walter Pavlo, Jr and Neil Weinberg
Walter Pavlo, Jr. was a young MBA rising quickly through the finance ranks at the nation’s second largest telecom company. Pavlo’s life took a dark turn when he became a willing participant in the company’s efforts to hide from investors and potential acquirers a mountain of bad debt run up by mobsters and other unsavory customers. Then the jaded young executive consorted to use some of the same ploys to enrich himself at his employer’s expense. Only later did he recognize that his original sins were part and parcel of the corruption that led to the collapse of his company, and of public confidence in corporate America. With humor and raw honesty, Pavlo and Neil Weinberg use this compelling personal story to portray in intimate detail the pressures millions of white-collar workers face every day.
212° The Extra Degree
By Samuel L. Parker
The concept is simple: At 211º, water is hot. At 212º, it boils. And with boiling water comes steam. And steam can power a locomotive. The one extra degree makes the difference.
This analogy reflects the ultimate definition of excellence. The one extra degree of effort, in business and life, can separate the good from the great. The 212º concept is vividly illustrated for every aspect of your life through powerful stories that will inspire and motivate yourself or your team to the next level of success.
InSideOut Coaching: How Sports Can Transform Lives
By Joe Ehrmann
In this inspirational yet practical book, Joe Ehrmann describes his coaching philosophy and explains how sports can transform lives at every level of play. Perhaps second only to parents, coaches can impact young people as no one else can. But most coaches fail to do the teaching, mentoring, even life-saving intervention that their platform provides. Too many are transactional coaches; they focus solely on winning and meeting their personal needs. Some coaches, however, teach the Xs and Os, but also teach the Ys of life. They help young people grow into responsible adults; they leave a lasting legacy. These are the transformational coaches. These coaches change lives, and they also change society by helping to develop healthy men and women.
InSideOut Coaching explains how to become a transformational coach. Coaches first have to “go inside” and articulate their reasons for coaching. Only those who have taken the InSideOut journey can become transformational.
The Culture Solution: A Practical Guide to Building a Dynamic Culture so People Love Coming to Work and Accomplishing Great Things Together
By Matthew Kelly
The six foundational principles of a Dynamic Culture are universal and unchanging. In The Culture Solution, Matthew Kelly presents the six enduring principles of a Dynamic Culture in a way that is both intensely practical and inspiring. If you want to . . . grow your business; attract, grow, and retain top talent; learn the key to hiring in the 21st century; teach every person in your organization that they have a role to play in making the culture better today than it was yesterday . . . this book is for you and every person on your team.
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
By Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras
Drawing upon a six-year research project at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras took eighteen truly exceptional and long-lasting companies and studied each in direct comparison to one of its top competitors. They examined the companies from their very beginnings to the present day — as start-ups, as midsize companies, and as large corporations. Throughout, the authors asked: “What makes the truly exceptional companies different from the comparison companies and what were the common practices these enduringly great companies followed throughout their history?”
Filled with hundreds of specific examples and organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at all levels, Built to Last provides a master blueprint for building organizations that will prosper long into the 21st century and beyond.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
By Patrick Lencioni
In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni offers a leadership fable that is enthralling and instructive about the complex world of teams. Lencioni’s tale serves as a timeless reminder that leadership requires as much courage as it does insight. Throughout the story, Lencioni reveals the five dysfunctions which go to the very heart of why teams even the best ones-often struggle. He outlines a powerful model and actionable steps that can be used to overcome these common hurdles and build a cohesive, effective team.
And God Said What?: An Introduction to Biblical Literary Forms
By Margaret Nutting Ralph
And God Said What? introduces readers to the importance of understanding the various literary forms that appear in Scripture: myth, legend, debate, fiction, Gospel, parable, allegory, letter, and apocalypse. Each genre is clearly defined, and the importance of understanding genre in order to find meaning is explored in relation to many well-known biblical passages: Samson, Lot’s wife, Jonah, puzzling parables, 666, and many more. Written by an experienced teacher who has listened carefully to her students’ questions, this book is an invaluable help to those who want to understand the revelation contained in the old and new covenants.
Think and Grow Rich
By Napoleon Hill
In Think and Grow Rich, Hill draws on stories of Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and other millionaires of his generation to illustrate his principles. This book will teach you the secrets that could bring you a fortune. It will show you not only what to do but how to do it. Once you learn and apply the simple, basic techniques revealed here, you will have mastered the secret of true and lasting success.
Lead with Humility: 12 Leadership Lessons from Pope Francis
By Jeffrey A. Krames
In the years since his election to the highest position in the Catholic Church, Pope Francis has breathed life into an aging institution, reinvigorated a global base, and created real hope for the future. In 2014, Fortune magazine awarded the top spot of their coveted World’s Greatest Leaders list not to a captain of industry or political leader but to the new pontiff. But how did a relatively unknown priest from Argentina rise so quickly from obscurity to one of the top leaders of the twenty-first century? The answer lies in his humility, as well as the simple principles that have sprung from it. Lead with Humility explores 12 of these principles and shows how other leaders and managers across a broad spectrum can adapt them for the workplace with just as impressive results as our great pope has.
The On-Purpose Person
By Kevin W. McCarthy
Nothing adds more fullness and meaning to your life than discovering your purpose and living it out every moment of your life. With The On-Purpose Person, you’ll be on your way to greater order and clarity within 30 minutes of picking up the book. This entertaining story format provides clear principles that are easy to apply to everyday life. You’ll put them into practice immediately. Regardless of whether you’re in your teens or well into retirement, being on-purpose will inspire and guide you to live true to yourself.
The Servant as Leader
By Robert K. Greenleaf
This powerful, poetic, and practical essay describes some of the characteristics and activities of servant-leaders, providing examples which show that individual efforts, inspired by vision and a servant ethic, can make a substantial difference in the quality of society. Greenleaf discusses the skills necessary to be a servant-leader; the importance of awareness, foresight and listening; and the contrasts between coercive, manipulative, and persuasive power.
The Purpose Driven Life
By Rick Warren
The Purpose Driven Life is far more than just a book; it’s the roadmap for your spiritual journey. A journey that will transform your life. Before you were born, God already planned your life. God longs for you to discover the life he created you to live – here on earth, and forever in eternity.
The Purpose Driven Life is designed to be read in 42 short chapters that will inspire you to stop and realize how God uniquely designed you for a purpose only you can fulfill. It also includes links to 3-minute video introductions to each chapter and a 30 to 40-minute audio Bible study message for each chapter. There are also appendixes including questions for further study and additional resources.
Rediscover the Saints: Twenty-Five Questions That Will Change Your Life
By Matthew Kelly
We are capable of so much more than we think. You have no idea what you are capable of. None of us do. God is constantly trying to open our eyes to the amazing possibilities that he has enfolded in our being. The saints continue this work, encouraging us to explore all our God-given potential, not with speeches but with the example of their lives.
The Collaborative Way
By Lloyd Fickett and Jason Fickett
This book illustrates the power of The Collaborative Way®. This story explores each principle and lets you see this designed way of working together in action. This informative introduction to the principles provides a very illuminating and powerful contribution to support your Collaborative Way® practice.
QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability at Work and in Life
By John G. Miller
QBQ! The Question Behind the Question, addresses the most important issue in business and society today: personal accountability. The lack of personal accountability has resulted in an epidemic of blame, complaining, and procrastination. No organization or individual can achieve goals, compete in the marketplace, fulfill a vision, or develop people and teams without personal accountability.
Succinct, insightful, and practical, QBQ! The Question Behind the Question provides a method for putting personal accountability into daily action, which can bring astonishing results: problems get solved, barriers come down, service improves, teamwork grows, and people adapt to change.
The Infinite Game
By Simon Sinek
In this book, Simon Sinek offers a framework for leading with an infinite mindset. On one hand, none of us can resist the fleeting thrills of a promotion earned or a tournament won, yet these rewards fade quickly. In pursuit of a Just Cause, we will commit to a vision of a future world so appealing that we will build it week after week, month after month, year after year. Although we do not know the exact form this world will take, working toward it gives our work and our life meaning. Leaders who embrace an infinite mindset build stronger, more innovative, more inspiring organizations. Ultimately, they are the ones who lead us into the future.
Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander
By Thomas Merton
In this series of notes, opinions, experiences, and reflections, Thomas Merton examines some of the most urgent questions of our age. With his characteristic forcefulness and candor, he brings the reader face-to-face with such provocative and controversial issues as the “death of God,” politics, modern life and values, and racial strife–issues that are as relevant today as they were fifty years ago.
Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander is Merton at his best–detached but not unpassionate, humorous yet sensitive, at all times alive and searching, with a gift for language which has made him one of the most widely read and influential spiritual writers of our time.
Faith and Violence
By Thomas Merton
In Faith and Violence, Thomas Merton offers concrete and pungent social criticisms grounded in prophetic faith about such issues as Vietnam, racism, violence, and war.
The Pocket Thomas Merton
Edited by Robert Inchausti
The Pocket Thomas Merton is a collection of some of the finest fruits of his efforts. The selections are organized to parallel Merton’s own spiritual development. It is a collection of paragraphs is the most succinct way to introduce Merton’s ideas.
Vibrant Paradoxes: The Both/And of Catholicism
By Bishop Robert Barron
Catholicism is both/and, not either/or. It celebrates the union of contraries–grace and nature, faith and reason, Scripture and tradition, body and soul in a way that the full energy of each opposing element remains in place.
In Vibrant Paradoxes, bestselling author Bishop Robert Barron brings together themes and motifs that many would consider mutually exclusive or, at best, awkward in their juxtaposition. But seen through the Incarnation, these opposites crash together and reflect new light in every direction. This book will train you to see.
Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence
By Rick Hansen Ph.D.
Life isn’t easy, and having a brain wired to take in the bad and ignore the good makes us worried, irritated, and stressed, instead of confident, secure, and happy. But each day is filled with opportunities to build inner strengths and Dr. Rick Hanson, an acclaimed clinical psychologist, shows what you can do to override the brain’s default pessimism. Hardwiring Happiness lays out a simple method that uses the hidden power of everyday experiences to build new neural structures full of happiness, love, confidence, and peace.
Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
By Coach John Wooden
Evoking days gone by when coaches were respected as much for their off-court performances as for their success on the court, Wooden presents the timeless wisdom of legendary basketball coach John Wooden.
In honest and telling passages about virtually every aspect of life, Coach shares his personal philosophy on family, achievement, success, and excellence. Raised on a small farm in south-central Indiana, he offers lessons and wisdom learned throughout his career at UCLA, and life as a dedicated husband, father, and teacher.
7 Secrets of the Eucharist
By Vinny Flynn
Pope John Paul II referred to the Holy Eucharist as “the greatest treasure of the Church,” and yet even many devoted Catholics have a very limited understanding of this powerful sacrament. This book will change all that. The reader will come away with a completely new awareness that the Eucharist is not just about receiving Communion; it’s about transforming your daily life.
Rejoice! Advent Meditations with the Holy Family
By Fr. Mark Toups
Rejoice! Advent Meditations with the Holy Family is a prayer resource with daily meditations that will enrich your Advent by inviting you to experience the first Advent with Joseph and Mary, as they await the birth of their son, the Savior of the world.
Joy to the World: How Christ’s Coming Changed Everything (and Still Does)
By Dr. Scott Hahn
In this wonderful book, Scott Hahn beautifully explains that the Christmas story is foremost a family story. You will learn about the deep Scriptural meaning of the Nativity of Jesus Christ and come to more fully appreciate the unique role played by the figures we know so well from the Gospels’ accounts. From Mary and Joseph to the Magi and shepherds, this book will help you discover anew the joy of Christmas.
Rediscover Jesus: An Invitation
By Matthew Kelly
At a time when so many people are spiritually disillusioned and searching for ways to live, love, work, and play that nurture the soul rather than destroy it, Matthew Kelly once again delivers a powerful book that encourages us in our weariness, challenges us in our comfort, and invites us to rediscover the beautiful possibilities God places before us daily. Rediscover Jesus is a profound invitation to seek deeply personal answers to our deeply personal questions. Each page seems to effortlessly reach into every aspect our lives, providing spiritual wisdom and practical insights that help us to know both Jesus and ourselves in a new way.
After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and
Beyond
By Dr. Bruce Greyson, M.D.
The world’s leading expert on near-death experiences reveals his journey toward
rethinking the nature of death, life, and the continuity of consciousness. Our
culture has tended to view dying as the end of our consciousness, the end of our
existence. But Dr. Greyson shows how scientific revelations about the dying
process can support an alternative theory. Dying could be the threshold between
one form of consciousness and another, not an ending but a transition. After
challenges us to open our minds to these experiences and to what they can teach
us, and in so doing, expand our understanding of consciousness and of what it
means to be human.
Invest Yourself: Daring to be Catholic in Today’s Business World
By John Abbate
Invest Yourself is the story of one man’s quest to live his faith boldly and authentically in the workplace. A real estate investor and the owner of multiple McDonald’s franchises for over twenty-five years, author John Abbate has had his share of difficult experiences. As his personal faith grew, he began to think differently about how he could be a more effective leader. He began putting the needs of his employees first, using his resources to assist them with their hardships, and inspiring them to strive for excellence. Along the way he discovered that business success and a deep Catholic faith aren’t mutually exclusive, but instead together form the basis of a life that is rich in what matters.
The Dream Manager
By Matthew Kelly
The fictional company in this remarkable book is grappling with real problems of high turnover and low morale so the managers begin to investigate what really drives the employees. What they discover is that the key to motivation isn’t necessarily the promise of a bigger paycheck or title, but rather the fulfillment of crucial personal dreams. They also learn that people at every level need to be offered specific kinds of help and encouragement or our dreams will forever remain just dreams as we grow dissatisfied with our jobs and lives. Beginning with his important thought that a company can only become the-best-version-of-itself to the extent that its employees are becoming better-versions-of-themselves, Matthew Kelly explores the connection between the dreams we are chasing personally and the way we all engage at work.
Unrepeatable: Cultivating the Unique Calling of Every Person
By Luke Burke & Joshua Miller, PhD
What if we were able to gain profound insight into the unique design, creative drive, and potential destiny of the people in our lives? The bold promise of this book is that we can. This ability carries an awesome responsibility: We must all be mentors and midwives to the personal vocations of others. Unrepeatable is about the urgent need for each of us to cultivate the vocations of others and the steps we should take to do it well.
THE HERO CODE: Lessons Learned from Lives Well Lived
By Admiral William H. McRaven (U.S. Navy Retired)
What if we were able to gain profound insight into the unique design, creative drive, and potential destiny of the people in our lives? The bold promise of this book is that we can. This ability carries an awesome responsibility: We must all be mentors and midwives to the personal vocations of others. Unrepeatable is about the urgent need for each of us to cultivate the vocations of others and the steps we should take to do it well.
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