JESUS, INC.: The Visionary Path—An Entrepreneur's Guide to True Success
Laurie Beth Jones, . . Crown, $21 (288pp) ISBN 978-0-609-60717-6
Jones (Jesus, CEO
) believes in conducting business and simultaneously satisfying one's spiritual needs. Biblical and real-life stories advocate religious faith and bestow practical advice. For example, Jones recommends undertaking difficult activities with a fresh approach (she made the most of a tedious seminar by pretending she was a reporter). Past success and an extensive author tour should help win her considerable sales. Agent, Mary Ann Naples.(Apr.)
TEACH YOUR TEAM TO FISH: Using Ancient Wisdom for Inspired Teamwork
Laurie Beth Jones, Ken Blanchard
"When Jesus called out to the fishermen, 'Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men,' he was about to transform each one of them from someone who worked only for himself and a Continue reading »
Jesus, Career Counselor: How to Find (and Keep) Your Perfect Work
Laurie Beth Jones
She taught readers how to be Christians in business. Now Jones, business consultant and author of the bestselling Jesus CEO
, is helping readers find their ideal Continue reading »
Management consultant Jones draws on the leadership techniques of Jesus Christ to provide guidance tips on inspiring and managing others. Continue reading »
Jones, whose books Jesus, Life Coach and Jesus, CEO have sought to infuse spiritual values into the workplace, here offers a derivative journal that takes the four key principles of her Life Coach Continue reading »
Jesus CEO: Using Ancient Wisdom for Visionary Leadership
Laurie Beth Jones
Jesus was able to motivate his staff of 12, ergo, there is much to be learned from his teachings, stresses California management consultant Jones, whose sentiments as expressed here ring with Continue reading »
The Power of Positive Prophecy: Finding the Hidden Potential in Everyday Life
Laurie Beth Jones
Having popularized her offbeat brand of Christian inspiration with Jesus, CEO and Jesus in Blue Jeans, Jones returns with a notion that nicely coincides with secular interest in intuition and psychic Continue reading »
The Path: Creating Your Mission Statement for Work and for Life
Laurie Beth Jones
Elizabeth Davis's first book, Heart & Hands, is often considered the bible for practicing midwives. Now Davis has teamed up with fellow midwife Carol Leonard to attend to all stages in a woman's Continue reading »
Look Out: The Delight and Danger of Taking the Long View
Edward McPherson
Guggenheim fellow McPherson (The History of the Future) presents a charming, idiosyncratic meditation on the human urge to see further, and more, in this cultural history of the Continue reading »
Japanese studies scholar Sheftall turns to the bombing of Nagasaki in this harrowing follow-up to Hiroshima. In his opening passages, Sheftall briefly surveys Nagasaki’s Continue reading »
Only God Can Judge Me: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur
Jeff Pearlman
Biographer Pearlman (The Last Folk Hero) chronicles the brief, chaotic life of rap legend Tupac Shakur in this excellent biography. Shakur was born in 1971 to mother Afeni, a Continue reading »
The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding
Joseph J Ellis
This incisive history from Pulitzer winner Ellis (American Sphinx) probes the contradiction between the Revolutionary era’s defense of universal rights and its complicity in Continue reading »