A friend loaned me a copy ofDeath by Meeting: A Leadership Fable…About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business by Patrick Lencioni. It took me a while to get around to reading it because I had been working on my dissertation, but now that I have read it I found it to be very helpful.
The largest part of the book is a narrative or “fable” describing the experiences of the CEO of a hypothetical tech company and his top executives. Through their experiences, we learn why most leaders look at meetings as a boring and ineffective, and what can be done to solve both problems. The central points which the story is intended to teach are summarized in part two of the book, The Model.
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My web site has now been hosted with Bluehost for over 3 years and I am very happy with them. They have a very good record on reliability and 24/7 tech support, including phone support. Over the past three years they have expanded the storage and bandwidth limits several times, and unlike some hosting companies they have automatically applied the increases to existing customers. Now I have discovered out that they have expanded their limits again, this time to unlimited storage space, unlimited bandwidth and unlimited domains hosted on a single account! Did I mention that they charge only $6.95 per month. This is so awesome that I simply had to tell you about it!
Is righteousness a gift that we receive by faith, or a way of living that God will reward? It seems that the answer is a bit of each.
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I set up a web album with a few pictures from my graduation last month.
