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The Tides of Life: Learning to Lead and Serve as You Navigate the Currents of Life
The Tides of Life is about the choices we make in life. Choices that require navigating those changing tides and winds of life as we pursue the right choice and avoid those that will result in harm or failure. For the leader there is often only one choice to make, to lead or mislead. Is there room for God in navigating these choices of life? In writing this book, Bill Pollard responds to this question as he reflects on the lessons and choices of his life and suggests a framework of life for the choices we should make. His journey has involved an active and changing professional life of practicing law, serving as a professor and senior administrator in higher education, and leading a fast growing service company that, during his tenure as CEO, was recognized as the number one service company among the Fortune 500 and was acknowledged as one of the most respected companies in the world by the Financial Times . Bill has lived a life of learning from his faithful wife and family, from those he has worked with and served, and from teachers and friends including Peter Drucker, Billy Graham and Warren Buffett.
272 pages, Hardcover
First published December 31, 2013
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May 8, 2018
Enjoyed this book.
Very much a collection of thoughts around Biblical leadership and what a Christian worldview might say about economics and business management.
A helpful focus on people as the subject not the object of work. (Borrowed from his friend/mentor - Peter Drucker)
Bit odd to have very personal aspects - Father’s Day notes that had been written for him twenty years ago, and what the grandkids are up to, etc, side by side with such theories.
Also nice to see a lot of T S Eliot woven through.
Very much a collection of thoughts around Biblical leadership and what a Christian worldview might say about economics and business management.
A helpful focus on people as the subject not the object of work. (Borrowed from his friend/mentor - Peter Drucker)
Bit odd to have very personal aspects - Father’s Day notes that had been written for him twenty years ago, and what the grandkids are up to, etc, side by side with such theories.
Also nice to see a lot of T S Eliot woven through.
October 8, 2015
The Tides of Life
Learning to Lead and Serve as You Navigate the Currents of Life
by Bill Pollard
Crossway
Christian
Pub Date Apr 30, 2014
The Tides of Life encourages us to think about what our lives will look like, in five, ten even twenty years from now. It reminds us to think about what we are doing now because it can and will affect our future, and even how we perceive ourselves. Tomorrow is not a promise, but if we are given tomorrow? What will our past look like?
Bill Pollard, reminds us too, not to be to quick to judge, because we may not know or understand what a person is going through. He reminds us that life is not always a bowl full of cherries, and that even Christians have there troubles, there struggles.
In The Tides of Life we are reminded that even if we are not called into full time ministry we can still live a life for Christ. We can work on our careers and still be a light for Christ.
I found The Tides of Life, to be both inspiring and encouraging and appropriate for anyone who wishes to find encouragement. It is appropriate for the young and old a like, and worthy of five out of five stats.
Happy Reading
Learning to Lead and Serve as You Navigate the Currents of Life
by Bill Pollard
Crossway
Christian
Pub Date Apr 30, 2014
The Tides of Life encourages us to think about what our lives will look like, in five, ten even twenty years from now. It reminds us to think about what we are doing now because it can and will affect our future, and even how we perceive ourselves. Tomorrow is not a promise, but if we are given tomorrow? What will our past look like?
Bill Pollard, reminds us too, not to be to quick to judge, because we may not know or understand what a person is going through. He reminds us that life is not always a bowl full of cherries, and that even Christians have there troubles, there struggles.
In The Tides of Life we are reminded that even if we are not called into full time ministry we can still live a life for Christ. We can work on our careers and still be a light for Christ.
I found The Tides of Life, to be both inspiring and encouraging and appropriate for anyone who wishes to find encouragement. It is appropriate for the young and old a like, and worthy of five out of five stats.
Happy Reading
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