December 2010 – Greg Chaney

Unless you are prepared to see things differently and go against the current, you are unlikely to accomplish anything truly important. And to go against the current, you have to be something of an outsider, living on the edge, a member of a small but vibrant counterculture. You must free yourself from habitual ways of looking at things, cultivate an independent and questioning perspective, and be ready to embrace alternative and counterintuitive points of view.

Dove Frohman in Leadership the Hard Way: Why Leadership Can’t Be Taught – And How You Can Learn It Anyway (J-B Warren Bennis Series)

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Christ was predominately used in books until the turn of the century. Since the 1980s the use of Jesus has taken dominated. Overall the use of both has dropped including use of the word “Gospel.” Data built using Google Ngram

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Christ vs Money

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Source: Google Ngram data link here

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Management Since 1800

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I’m a proponent of leadership over management as the primary course of study to improve one’s ability to influence people. Management, however, seems to have reigned as a subject in books since the 1800s. The google Ngram below charts the usage of the keywords “manager,” “leader,” “management”, and “leadership” in books since 1800.

I notice a couple of interesting things about these trends:

Leadership subjects did not appear until the mid 1800s (perhaps as a result of the American Civil War)
Management subjects decreased during the America’s Great Depression
Management subjects skyrocketed during 1970-1990 (the rise in the economies of industrialized countries)
All of the keywords dropped in usage after 2001 (Influenced by the attacks on September 11?)

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Heaven vs hell

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Make your own conclusions on the Google Ngram of the following book subjects since 1800

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Gratitude Unlocks the Fullness of Life

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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow. – Melody Beattie

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Real Life

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Real life isn’t always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgment of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties – Sarah Ban Breathnach

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Your Real Life

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The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all unpleasant things as interruptions of ones “own” or “real” life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life – the life God is sending one day by day. – C.S. Lewis

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Tomorrow, A Hundred Years, a Thousand Years: All the same

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The next moment is as much beyond our grasp and as much in God’s care as that a hundred years away. Care for the next minute is as foolish as care for a day in the next thousand years. In neither can we do anything, in both God is doing everything. -C.S. Lewis

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ArchiveDecember 2010

Bible Class Audio: Sermon on the Mount

Leading from the Outside

Jesus or Christ

Christ vs Money

Management Since 1800

Heaven vs hell

Gratitude Unlocks the Fullness of Life

Real Life

Your Real Life

Tomorrow, A Hundred Years, a Thousand Years: All the same

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