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Excellence

Author : Andreas J. Köstenberger
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 1433530511
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Excellence written by Andreas J. Köstenberger and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are called to excellence in all aspects of our lives and activities, and not least in our character. Andreas Köstenberger summons all Christians, and especially aspiring pastors, scholars, and teachers, to a life of virtue lived out in excellence. Köstenberger moves through Christian virtues chapter by chapter, outlining the Bible's teaching and showing how Christ-dependent excellence in each area will have a profound impact on one's ministry and scholarship. Virtues covered include grace, courage, integrity, creativity, eloquence, humility, diligence, and service. This unique book is an important character check for all Christians engaged in teaching and ministry, and especially for those in training. Köstenberger's thoughtful volume will be a valuable touchstone for readers, for one's character is a critical matter in both scholarship and ministry.

Excellence in Character

Author : Robb Thompson
Publisher : Winning in Life
ISBN 13 : 9781889723457
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book Excellence in Character written by Robb Thompson and published by Winning in Life. This book was released on 2004-08-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Character Strengths and Virtues

Author : Christopher Peterson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198037330
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Character Strengths and Virtues written by Christopher Peterson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-08 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Character" has become a front-and-center topic in contemporary discourse, but this term does not have a fixed meaning. Character may be simply defined by what someone does not do, but a more active and thorough definition is necessary, one that addresses certain vital questions. Is character a singular characteristic of an individual, or is it composed of different aspects? Does character--however we define it--exist in degrees, or is it simply something one happens to have? How can character be developed? Can it be learned? Relatedly, can it be taught, and who might be the most effective teacher? What roles are played by family, schools, the media, religion, and the larger culture? This groundbreaking handbook of character strengths and virtues is the first progress report from a prestigious group of researchers who have undertaken the systematic classification and measurement of widely valued positive traits. They approach good character in terms of separate strengths-authenticity, persistence, kindness, gratitude, hope, humor, and so on-each of which exists in degrees. Character Strengths and Virtues classifies twenty-four specific strengths under six broad virtues that consistently emerge across history and culture: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence. Each strength is thoroughly examined in its own chapter, with special attention to its meaning, explanation, measurement, causes, correlates, consequences, and development across the life span, as well as to strategies for its deliberate cultivation. This book demands the attention of anyone interested in psychology and what it can teach about the good life.

Character is Everything

Author : Russell Wayne Gough
Publisher : Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Character is Everything written by Russell Wayne Gough and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 1997 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gough's practical approach asks readers to examine the effects personal character has on performance, teammates, fans, the league, and other individuals and groups in sports. Gough discusses sport's powerful cultural force, its potential for positive impact in the lives and society of those involved in it, and the ethical dimension of games. Gough also addresses the tenuous state of ethics in today's sports culture and the great potential for improvement.

Character Matters

Author : Mark Rutland
Publisher : Charisma Media
ISBN 13 : 1599798352
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Character Matters written by Mark Rutland and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2012-10-08 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIV Restore the cornerstone of this country! Character Matters You are best remembered for your character! The virtues you value are the ones that leave a mark for the whole world to see. Character matters... It’s the evidence of God at work in your life! What can you do to restore character in your neighborhood, community or country? Character matters… America’s core convictions have been chipped away, but now it’s time for rebuilding. Step away from that “so what” mentality and restore those unfulfilled dreams. Character matters… Mark Rutland discusses nine specific qualities that everyone needs. You’ll learn what godly character looks and acts like, and how character undergirds and redeems every aspect of society. You cannot live long or well without it! You need character in your life. /div

Return on Character

Author : Fred Kiel
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1625271328
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Return on Character written by Fred Kiel and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does the character of our leaders matter? You may think this question was answered long ago. Countless business authors and analysts have assured us that great leadership demands great character. Time and again, we’ve seen that truth play out, as once-thriving organizations falter and fail under the guidance of leaders behaving badly. Why, then, do so many executives remain skeptical about the true value of leadership character? A winning strategy and a sound business model are what really matter, they argue; character is just the icing on the cake. What’s been missing from this debate is hard evidence: data that shows not only that leadership character matters for organizational success, but how it matters; and concrete evidence that it leads to better business results. Now, in this groundbreaking book, respected leadership researcher, adviser, and author Fred Kiel offers that evidence—solid data that demonstrates the connection between character, leadership excellence, and organizational results. After seven years of rigorous research based on a landmark study of more than 100 CEOs and over 8,000 of their employees’ observations, Kiel’s findings show that leaders of strong character achieved up to five times the ROA for their organizations as did leaders of weak character. Return on Character goes on to reveal: • How leadership character is formed, how it creates value, and how that value spreads throughout the organization • How low-character leaders undermine the success of even the best business plans • How leaders at any level can develop the habits of strong character and “unlearn” the habits of poor character The book also provides a character-building methodology—step-by-step advice and techniques for assessing your own character habits and improving your performance and that of your organization. Return on Character provides the blueprint for building your own leadership character and creating a character-driven organization that achieves superior business results.

PRIMED for Character Education

Author : Marvin W Berkowitz
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351030248
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book PRIMED for Character Education written by Marvin W Berkowitz and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2023 Outstanding Book Award from AERA's Moral Development and Education SIG! In PRIMED for Character Education, renowned character educator Marvin W Berkowitz boils down decades of research on evidence-based practices and thought-provoking field experience into a clear set of principles that leaders, administrators, and teacher-leaders can implement to help students thrive. The author’s original six-component framework offers a comprehensive guide to shaping purposeful learning environments, healthy relationships, core values and virtues, role models, empowerment, and long-term development in any PreK-12 school or district. This engaging and heartfelt book features tips for practice, anecdotes from award-winning schools, and straightforward tenets from moral education, social-emotional learning, and positive psychology.

Excellence in leadership

Author : JOHN WHITE
Publisher : Inter-Varsity Press
ISBN 13 : 1789740509
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book Excellence in leadership written by JOHN WHITE and published by Inter-Varsity Press. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With wisdom and sharp biblical insight, John White points to the life of Nehemiah, showing us a man of prayer and a man of action; firm leader and servant of his people; realist and visionary, and above all, man of God.

Character Matters

Author : Thomas Lickona
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743266994
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Character Matters written by Thomas Lickona and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-03-10 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning psychologist and educator Thomas Lickona offers more than one hundred practical strategies that parents and schools have used to help kids build strong personal character as the foundation for a purposeful, productive, and fulfilling life. Succeeding in life takes character, and Lickona shows how irresponsible and destructive behavior can invariably be traced to the absence of good character and its ten essential qualities: wisdom, justice, fortitude, self-control, love, a positive attitude, hard work, integrity, gratitude, and humility. The culmination of a lifetime’s work in character education from one the preeminent psychologists of our time, this landmark book gives us the tools we need to raise respectful and responsible children, create safe and effective schools, and build the caring and decent society in which we all want to live.

A Theory of Virtue

Author : Robert Merrihew Adams
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191564494
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book A Theory of Virtue written by Robert Merrihew Adams and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2008-10-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The distinguished philosopher Robert M. Adams presents a major work on virtue, which is once again a central topic in ethical thought. A Theory of Virtue is a systematic, comprehensive framework for thinking about the moral evaluation of character. Many recent attempts to stake out a place in moral philosophy for this concern define virtue in terms of its benefits for the virtuous person or for human society more generally. In Part One of this book Adams presents and defends a conception of virtue as intrinsic excellence of character, worth prizing for its own sake and not only for its benefits. In the other two parts he addresses two challenges to the ancient idea of excellence of character. One challenge arises from the importance of altruism in modern ethical thought, and the question of what altruism has to do with intrinsic excellence. Part Two argues that altruistic benevolence does indeed have a crucial place in excellence of character, but that moral virtue should also be expected to involve excellence in being for other goods besides the well-being (and the rights) of other persons. It explores relations among cultural goods, personal relationships, one's own good, and the good of others, as objects of excellent motives. The other challenge, the subject of Part Three of the book, is typified by doubts about the reality of moral virtue, arising from experiments and conclusions in social psychology. Adams explores in detail the prospects for an empirically realistic conception of excellence of character as an object of moral aspiration, endeavor, and education. He argues that such a conception will involve renunciation of the ancient thesis of the unity or mutual implication of all virtues, and acknowledgment of sufficient 'moral luck' in the development of any individual's character to make virtue very largely a gift, rather than an individual achievement, though nonetheless excellent and admirable for that.

The Character Gap

Author : Christian B. Miller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190264225
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Character Gap written by Christian B. Miller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We like to think of ourselves, our friends, and our families as pretty decent people. We may not be saints, but we are basically good, fairly honest, relatively kind, and mostly trustworthy. 0One of the central themes of 'The Character Gap' is that we are badly mistaken in thinking this way. In recent years, hundreds of psychological studies have been done which tell a rather different story. We have serious character flaws that prevent us from being good people, many of which we do not even recognize in ourselves. Does this mean that instead we are wretched people, vicious, cruel or hateful? Christian Miller does not argue that this is necessarily the case either.

The Death of Character

Author : James Davison Hunter
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 046501173X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Death of Character written by James Davison Hunter and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-01-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Death of Character is a broad historical, sociological, and cultural inquiry into the moral life and moral education of young Americans based upon a huge empirical study of the children themselves. The children's thoughts and concerns-expressed here in their own words-shed a whole new light on what we can expect from moral education. Targeting new theories of education and the prominence of psychology over moral instruction, Hunter analyzes the making of a new cultural narcissism.

Building an Intentional School Culture

Author : Charles F. Elbot
Publisher : Corwin Press
ISBN 13 : 1452294348
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book Building an Intentional School Culture written by Charles F. Elbot and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2007-10-25 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Charles Elbot and David Fulton get it! They get how dominant a force a school′s culture is in assisting—or thwarting—the development of learning and character and how extraordinarily difficult it is to make changes. Unlike most of us, they also get how possible it is to build a desirable school culture. This tidy little volume is the authors′ first step in sharing their inventive ′lesson plans′ from their successful work as school culture builders. When we take these lessons learned to heart, we too will get it!" —Roland Barth, Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Education Harvard University Transform your school by shaping a culture based on shared values, beliefs, and behaviors. Based on lessons learned from the authors′ work in improving school culture for more than sixty schools across the country, this inspiring guide for school leaders helps create an "intentional school culture" that fosters excellence, builds character, and improves student achievement. The book provides tools, case studies, strategies, and implementation plans for building a strong school culture and offers guidelines for teacher trainings, principal workshops, staff meetings, and district-level use. The authors demonstrate how to: Support students′ independent and interdependent thinking and behavior Foster ethical decision making Collaborate with students, parents, and teachers Evaluate and monitor a plan to enhance the existing school culture The authors illustrate how deliberately shaping a school culture cultivates faculty trust, sets the groundwork for raising test scores, and is a critical ingredient in building a successful school.

The Virtue of Aristotle's Ethics

Author : Paula Gottlieb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052176176X
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book The Virtue of Aristotle's Ethics written by Paula Gottlieb and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text looks at Aristotle's claims, particularly the much-maligned doctrine of the mean.

Chasing Excellence

Author : Ben Bergeron
Publisher : Ben Bergeron, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781619617278
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Chasing Excellence written by Ben Bergeron and published by Ben Bergeron, LLC. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ben's ability to develop mental toughness and the approach he shares in Chasing Excellence is a game changer for athletes in any sport." --Javier Vazquez, Major League Baseball All-Star "This book will do for you what Ben has done for me--take you to the next level and show you how to be the best. His insights on the mental game are second to none. You will feel prepared for anything." --Bethany Hart-Gerry, US Olympic Bobsled Team CrossFit trainer Ben Bergeron has helped build the world's fittest athletes, but he's not like other coaches. He believes that greatness is not for the elite few; that winning is a result, not a goal; and that character, not talent, is what makes a true champion. His powerful philosophy can help anyone excel at all aspects of life. Using the dramatic competition between the top contenders at the 2016 Reebok CrossFit Games(R) as a background, Ben explores the step-by-step process of achieving excellence and the unique set of positive character traits necessary for leveling up to world-class. The mindset and methodology that have produced some of the greatest athletes in the world's most gruelling sport can work equally well for golfers, lawyers, artists, entrepreneurs--anyone who's willing to commit totally to becoming better than the best. By Chasing Excellence, you'll discover how extraordinary it's possible for you to be.

Developing Leadership Character

Author : Mary Crossan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317578090
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Developing Leadership Character written by Mary Crossan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the element of leadership that has largely been neglected in the literature: character. Often thought to be a subjective construct, the book demonstrates the concrete behaviors associated with different character dimensions in order to illustrate how these behaviors can be developed, and character strengthened. Based on research involving over 300 senior leaders from different industries, sectors and countries, Crossan, Seijts, and Gandz developed a model for leadership character that focuses on eleven dimensions. The book begins by setting the context for the focus on character in business, asking what character is and whether it can be learned, developed, molded or changed. Next, the book focuses on each dimension of leadership character in turn, exploring its elements and the ways in which it can be applied in a business setting. The book concludes with a summary of the key insights, an exploration of the interactions between the character dimensions, and a call to the reader to reflect on how to develop one’s own and others’ leadership character. Bridging theory and management practice, Developing Leadership Character will interest students and practitioners alike. Readers will benefit not only from a new, robust theoretical framework for leadership character, but will also learn how character can be developed further.

Classics of Moral and Political Theory

Author : Michael L. Morgan
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603846689
Total Pages : 1372 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Classics of Moral and Political Theory written by Michael L. Morgan and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 1372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth edition of Michael L. Morgan's Classics of Moral and Political Theory broadens the scope and increases the versatility of this landmark anthology by offering new selections from Aristotle's Politics, Aquinas' Disputed Questions on Virtue and Treatise on Law, as well as the entirety of Locke's Letter Concerning Toleration, Kant's To Perpetual Peace, and Nietzsche's On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life.