Published by Jeremy Fagan on 7th October 2019

Book review: Alive at Work: The neuroscience of helping your people love what they do, Daniel M. Cable.

Reviewed by Vaughan S. Roberts Harvard Business Review Press, 2018 203pp; ISBN 978-1- 63369-425-5 £22.00. How do you maintain your zest for work? And for those in leadership positions, an even more challenging question is how to you maintain the zest for work amongst those in your organization? Dan Cable sets out to address these…

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Published by Jeremy Fagan on 7th October 2019

MODEM Matters E42

MODEM Matters has just been sent. To subscribe to future editions, click here. This edition includes David talking about good conversations, 17 book reviews (!) and upcoming events and links from around the web.

Published by Jeremy Fagan on 7th October 2019

Book Review of Jon Coutts (2019) Church Leadership. SCM Studyguide. London: SCM Press. 184 pp., £19.99.

David Sims There is something refreshing about a book on leadership whose index ranges from Thomas a Kempis to Bart Simpson, but has almost no reference to the massive leadership literature that has developed over the last 50 years. Also alarming. The author is aware of a range of writing from outside the usual Christian…

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Published by Jeremy Fagan on 7th October 2019

Some recent books on leadership

Tim HarleProgramme Leader for Christian Approaches to Leadership and Coordinator for the Centre for Leadership LearningSarum College I have recently updated the reading lists for Sarum College’s MA in Christian Approaches to Leadership, and am happy to take this opportunity to share some newly published books with a wider audience. All books were published in 2019,…

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Published by Jeremy Fagan on 7th October 2019

Good Conversation in Church

From the Chair – David Sims Conversations are breaking down everywhere. In the UK there is much discussion about the breakdown of our national conversation, as we move from not being able to talk about death and religion to finding that we cannot even talk about our different views of a customs union. Conversations between…

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