Issue No. 314 of Your Weekly Staff Meeting features a 31-day book for January and a special Christmas greeting to my faithful readers—and some thoughts from my Messiah-sing-along experience of 30 years ago.
Watch for my December 31 eNews with my 2014 Book-of-the-Year selection and nine other top-pick books from my 2014 reviews. Plus, this reminder: check out my Management Buckets website with dozens of resources and downloadable worksheets for your staff meetings.
Last Minute Gift Idea
Here's a perfect book for starting the New Year. Steve Macchia's Wellspring: 31 Days to Whole-Hearted Living features 31 very short chapters (one-a-day for a month) on these powerful themes: The Grateful Heart, The Discerning Heart, The Hopeful Heart, The Thoughtful Heart, The Discriminating Heart and 26 more hearts. In the chapter on The Foolish Heart, he writes:
"Fools consider their heart as their own and left to their own devices end up foolishly inconsiderate toward all others. It's almost as if a foolish heart is the ancient term for what we know today as a narcissist."
This would make a short, but poignant, staff meeting study for your weekly or monthly staff meetings. (Remember--delegate some of your reading to others!) To go deeper, read Macchia's excellent book, Crafting a Rule of Life: An Invitation to the Well-Ordered Way.
Handel's "Little Joke"
Last year, I reviewed a brilliant coffee table book, My Ideal Bookshelf, which prompted me to select my own Top-10 list of favorite books.
One treasure on my all-time Top-10 list is The Messiah: An Oratorio, by G.F. Handel. So in this issue I’m re-gifting what I shared in my Christmas card 30 years ago (Yikes!) about that poignant experience. It’s a repeat from my 2013 Christmas eNews message. Read it here.
Merry Christmas!
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