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The Golden Rule: For Empowering Professional Relationships
THE GOLDEN RULE offers time-tested ideas and techniques that can empower our professional relationships. It is the engaging story - nonfiction that reads like fiction - of a group of professionals who embark on a journey to discover a role model who will inspire them to change the way they act, react and interact. Their search culminates in an encounter with a role model beyond compare - JESUS CHRIST - the supermodel, and not the religious or spiritual leader the world has known. He is an outstanding leader who walks tall, a powerful communicator who touches minds and hearts, and a peerless teacher who influences by example. The life and times of Jesus Christ have been analyzed from many perspectives, but never before from the corporate angle with focus on professional relationships, as in The Golden Rule for Empowering Professional Relationships. Jesus' example stands out not just for our personal lives, but also for our professional conduct. In short, Jesus emerges as the definitive leader in every respect. As we start the monumental journey with the characters in the plot, we will find that the Golden Rule goes beyond being a maxim and becomes the very essence of evaluating our personal and professional lives. We uncover secrets, unlearn past programming and make a paradigm shift in the way we act, react and interact. If we are looking for a book that has the power to transform us, here it is ---THE GOLDEN RULE.
344 pages, Paperback
First published February 19, 2014
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March 7, 2015
Note: This book was provided by the author in exchange for an honest review. Full Review can be found on The Review Board. This is the abbreviated version
When I started reading The Golden Rule for Empowering Professional Relationships, I didn’t quite know what to make of it. For one, although it is closer to self-help and spirituality, the author tries his hand at intermingling nonfiction with fiction. A group of professionals are seeking a better way to evaluate each other’s job performance and ultimately use the New Testament as dialogue to promote 360 Degree Appraisals and Total Quality Management with Jesus Christ being the ultimate model to the type of management and leadership in which we should aspire.
From a creative standpoint, I am willing to give the author points for daring to be creative and doing a few things out of the box—fiction material in nonfiction work, the personification of Jesus Christ as a Chief Executive Officer, His disciples as members of the management team, and the people as His customer base. The author does fairly well in citing Biblical passages that correspond with his way of thinking.
Yet there are a few things, from an overall reading perspective, that prevent me from giving this high marks.
(1) Is this approach really for everyone?
I’m not saying the author should not be an advocate of the power of Christianity. If it works for him, then there is nothing wrong with being proud of that fact. My concern is when something is delivered as the “end all, be all”. If this was presented as a discussion to where the incorporation of Jesus Christ was one of the ways to improve professional relationships, then that’s all well and good.
Yet the connotation suggests that Jesus Christ is the only way to go. This exclusiveness alienates other groups who may be interested in what the author has to say. Do you have to be a Christian to want to improve your relationship with your boss, co-workers, or overall work environment? For me, not necessarily.
(2) Presentation of dialogue
In the early part of this book, the dialogue was shown as part of a screenplay. This honestly is just one of my quirks. I don’t like to see chatter written in screenplay form unless I am reading a screenplay. This should have been adjusted prior to publication, considering none of the other dialogue in the remainder of the book adopted that fallacy.
(3) Fresh perspective or Management 101?
If one were to take out the Jesus Christ component and replace Him with Buddha or Allah? What if no one was touted as a pristine leader? Would the Golden Rule lesson remained the same? Would the techniques mirror those taught in Management 101? For some readers, this title reads no differently than a textbook one would acquire when studying college courses.
Due to all outlined above, my verdict is 2.5 out of 5 Stars, yet not quite strong enough to round to a 3.
When I started reading The Golden Rule for Empowering Professional Relationships, I didn’t quite know what to make of it. For one, although it is closer to self-help and spirituality, the author tries his hand at intermingling nonfiction with fiction. A group of professionals are seeking a better way to evaluate each other’s job performance and ultimately use the New Testament as dialogue to promote 360 Degree Appraisals and Total Quality Management with Jesus Christ being the ultimate model to the type of management and leadership in which we should aspire.
From a creative standpoint, I am willing to give the author points for daring to be creative and doing a few things out of the box—fiction material in nonfiction work, the personification of Jesus Christ as a Chief Executive Officer, His disciples as members of the management team, and the people as His customer base. The author does fairly well in citing Biblical passages that correspond with his way of thinking.
Yet there are a few things, from an overall reading perspective, that prevent me from giving this high marks.
(1) Is this approach really for everyone?
I’m not saying the author should not be an advocate of the power of Christianity. If it works for him, then there is nothing wrong with being proud of that fact. My concern is when something is delivered as the “end all, be all”. If this was presented as a discussion to where the incorporation of Jesus Christ was one of the ways to improve professional relationships, then that’s all well and good.
Yet the connotation suggests that Jesus Christ is the only way to go. This exclusiveness alienates other groups who may be interested in what the author has to say. Do you have to be a Christian to want to improve your relationship with your boss, co-workers, or overall work environment? For me, not necessarily.
(2) Presentation of dialogue
In the early part of this book, the dialogue was shown as part of a screenplay. This honestly is just one of my quirks. I don’t like to see chatter written in screenplay form unless I am reading a screenplay. This should have been adjusted prior to publication, considering none of the other dialogue in the remainder of the book adopted that fallacy.
(3) Fresh perspective or Management 101?
If one were to take out the Jesus Christ component and replace Him with Buddha or Allah? What if no one was touted as a pristine leader? Would the Golden Rule lesson remained the same? Would the techniques mirror those taught in Management 101? For some readers, this title reads no differently than a textbook one would acquire when studying college courses.
Due to all outlined above, my verdict is 2.5 out of 5 Stars, yet not quite strong enough to round to a 3.
November 29, 2017
Professionals in the corporate world, looking for a credible role model, stumble on the person of Jesus! What actionable lessons does Jesus have for corporate leadership? This book provides convincing (and inspiring) answers.
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