Author: Nginya Mungai Lenneiye
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 588

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Author: Jacob U. Gordon
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313030642
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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This book presents a comprehensive overview of Black leadership in every aspect of American life, including movements for social justice, education, business, and politics. In the quest for human rights and social advancement, African-American leaders have emerged to lead the fight to overcome racial and economic barriers. This struggle has influenced the exercise of Black leadership in many other areas and the author uses an interdisciplinary approach to reveal the changes, continuities, and variety of African-American approaches to effective leadership. The book also suggests a theoretical framework for future research on the impact of Black leadership in America. A wide range of issues are considered in this volume, beginning with the definition of leadership and the concept of Black leadership. Gordon then considers outstanding examples of Black leadership in contemporary America in a variety of fields. Scholars and students in history, political science, and ethnic studies will find this an important resource for understanding Black leadership and its impact on American life.

Author: KeumJu Jewel Hyun
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666768855
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 219

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Improve your service. While many claim to offer models of leadership suitable for contemporary society, this book goes a notch higher by doing so through the prism of Jesus's servant leadership. As the servant-leader par excellence, Jesus not only taught but demonstrated service by stooping down and washing his disciples’ feet. This book distills the experience and wisdom of men and women who have practically benefited from Jesus’s leadership. Reflective of the global church, all the authors speak of a servant leadership inspired by love, honoring of God, humble in approach, and seeking the welfare of others without neglecting a healthy self-regard. Whether you work on-site or remotely, you will find the grist for robust leadership. This book is a must-read for theologians, businesspeople, educators, students, and Christian practitioners seeking to make a difference in our times.

Author: Wayne Visser
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351277626
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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In January 2010, author, academic and social entrepreneur Dr Wayne Visser set off on a nine-month, 20-country "quest" to talk to entrepreneurs, business leaders and innovators and learn about how companies in all parts of the world can and are helping to tackle the world's most pressing social and environmental problems. His aim was to explore the many varieties of global approaches to sustainable business practices first-hand and to share some of the most innovative global examples.The result is this treasure trove of a book, full of stories, ideas, links to more than 100 video interviews, best practices and tools for making sustainable business work in a myriad of different contexts, cultures and settings. Besides sharing insights from his 2010 "CSR Quest World Tour", the author captures his professional experiences and the evolution of sustainable business over the past 20 years.The path begins in Africa and winds its way through Asia, North America, Europe, Australasia and Latin America. The author shares what he has learned in encounters with mega-corporations and small farmers, and conversations with CEOs and social entrepreneurs. There are facts and figures about world trends, and interviews with thought leaders and activists. This is a tale that consciously weaves the personal and the professional, mixing anecdotes and case studies. It looks outwards and reflects inwards, and is both autobiography and the life story of a global movement.

Author: George Allan Phiri
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1606087363
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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Effective communication with the African society in the field of missions, church planting, and social development work has been and continues to be a great challenge, particularly to people from western cultural and language orientation. Africans are a we rather than I and a depended on rather than independent of society. The worldview of a traditional African in terms of society, relationships, and communication is communal. Certainly, the African perception of communalism affects how they communicate with the people of different cultural orientation. Africa has several cultures and people differ in their communication depending on their cultural orientation. However, there are universal African cultures that act as a framework for understanding key aspects of communication with Africans for successful missions, church planting, and social development work. This book, therefore, provides a strategy of understanding communication with the African society. The discussions in this book provide readers with different cultural orientations unique perception of the African society as s/he may be planning to communicate with the African society for missions, church planting, and social development work, even doing humanitarian ministry in African society. Although literacy levels have improved tremendously in most African countries, most of Africa is not a reading society. It is imperative to understand that most Africans still communicate orally and are not time conscious. Hence, effective communication in African societies ought to be based on storytelling rather than literature distribution, although this is in transition. In fact, Africans are oratory and good listeners. Thus, this book provides an understanding to people of different cultural orientations when they plan to communicate with the people in Africa.

Author: Ledogo Amabu
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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At this time in history, when morals are getting endangered, when love is often misconstrued, when passion is being used for destruction, our young people and scholars now have an opportunity to access rich and original material, that will guide and direct them into relationships on purpose as they get trained and motivated to participate in the affairs of their country and to effect changes in their sphere of contact for the good of society. The Nation-building classic: TOWARDS A BETTER COUNTRY: A QUEST FOR VISIONARY LEADERSHIP IN AFRICA, IS AN ACTION-PROPELLING TOOL ON CITIZENSHIP DEMOCRATIC ADVANCEMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT and the series 3 of WaaGovernment and Theory of Nations-a classic book on Nation building, patriotism, and social change. A Leadership, Self-development, and a RELATIONSHIP inspired work that uses satire and metaphor in its setting, designed to be acted as a play on stage. At the "Love for Country campaign," Amabu met with WaaGovernment, and after he engaged her in a dialogue, they became friends and started partnering together in different ventures on a journey that provided practical and workable answers and solutions to Nation building questions. Amabu has given his heart to this classic work and believes that it would be propitious for African schools, Governments, and institutions in our quest to revamp the African society on this re-culturing campaign for visionary leadership and good governance to kill the anti-Progress trio of corruption, ethnocentric and nepotistic tendencies prevailing in our country and responsible for the backwardness of Nigeria and Africa.

Author: Rigard Steenkamp
Publisher: Juta and Company Ltd
ISBN: 9780702151903
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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This work includes a thorough treatment of the roles of our organiztional culture and leadership that provide the seedbed for quality work life. The values encapsulated in the organizational value structure will determine the way operations are conducted. The operational conditions deal with the creation of a safe, heathy and motivating environment. Management is fast becoming of vital importance in all industries but particularly in mining and manufacturing. Quality of work life is not the sole responsibility of an organization and its management structures. The individual must accept part of the responsibility. This book provides extensive guidance on issues such as preparation to deal with change through the development of transformational intelligence, self-management skills and personal financial management. This book is the among the first in South Africa and one of few in the world to provide a holistic overview of the creation, development and maintenance of quality of work life (QWLO) in organizations.

Author: Randee Ijatuyi-Morphé
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 0761862684
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 647

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This well-crafted book probes the key dimensions of Africa’s existential predicament. It constitutes an intellectual response to a gnawing “African situation”—the starting point for grasping Africa’s social and religious quest. Beyond split explanations of external versus internal factors (e.g., colonization/slavery vs. leadership/cultural values), this study accounts more comprehensively for emergent issues shaping this situation. The situation reflects a gamut of problems in traditional African religion and material culture, which hitherto defines African communality, polities, and destinies vis-à-vis the cosmos and nature. Thus, African religion and communities, each with its own attendant values, do not operate by critical engagement with larger issues of society and civilization, especially those shaped by the advent of (post-) modernity. Rather, they operate via adaptation. The communal drive for natural and social harmony inevitably produces a preservationist view of culture (“leaving things as they are”). This study takes an integrative approach to religion, society, and civilization; eschews dichotomies; and broadly defines and re-signifies life and wholeness as a true end of Africans’ quest today.

Author: Eva Jordans
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9783030146085
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 367

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This book is a timely guide on what constitutes effective leadership in Africa. It explores how today’s leaders in Africa perceive their role, the challenges they experience, and how they operate effectively as leaders. In the era of globalization, there is an increasing need to offer guidance on how leaders can adjust their leadership style to suit situational contexts. Drawing on case study and survey data, this book illustrates to scholars and leaders worldwide the vision of leadership that is emerging in Africa. It will contribute to the development of a new community of global leaders, integrating cutting-edge knowledge on leadership development in Africa.

Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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