The CEO Next Door: The 4 Behaviors that Transform Ordinary People into World-Class Leaders

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The CEO Next Door

Elena L. Botelho and Kim R. Powell

The Crown Publishing Group, 2018, 288 pages

Summary

The authors draw on a significant data set of over 17,000 CEO interviews to draw conclusions about what makes a CEO successful. The first section highlights the practices seen in successful CEOs, the second discusses how to become a CEO and the final section is how CEOs lead toward success and execution. The book is filled with quotable observations and illustrations from industry.

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International Students in China: Who Will Reach This Vast and Strategic Yet Invisible Group?

Wearing her hijab, “Mounia” from Yemen heard the gospel and felt the love of God in our international church because of her Rwandan classmate’s invitation and her husband’s permission. Without Arabic or visa for Yemen, instead of flying to Sana’a, we walked two meters to welcome her. From a country with 0.03% evangelicals, could she take the gospel back home?

March 29, 2018

Mobilization: The Fourth (and Final?) Era of the Modern Mission Movement

Hindsight is always 20/20 and peering into the rearview mirror of missions history, attempting to see it from God’s perspective, is a formidable, but exhilarating, endeavor. One modern thinker who has done a stellar job of helping us understand when, where, and how God has been at work over the centuries is missiologist Dr. Ralph Winter, founder of the U.S. Center for World Mission (now Frontier Ventures).

June 29, 2018

Leading Mission Movements

We live in an unprecedented period of mission history. The new paradigm of “from anywhere to everywhere” is by nature complex, resulting in an increasing need to partner with others for effective ministry. The challenge of connecting with potential partners in the global context is best done in and through the evolving world of networks.

March 29, 2018

Welcoming the Stranger

Presenter: Matthew Soerens, US Director of Church Mobilization, World Relief Description: Refugee and immigration issues have dominated headlines globally recently. While many American Christians view these…

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