Teach Your Team to Fish: Using Ancient Wisdom for Inspired Teamwork

by Laurie Beth Jones, Ken Blanchard (Foreword)

Jesus Built an Inspired Team. You Can, Too.

Laurie Beth Jones has given hundreds of thousands of business readers insight into how the ideas of Jesus can be used to enhance performance. In Teach Your Team to Fish , Jones focuses on one of the most critical areas for anyone in teamwork. Leaders today face their greatest challenges not only in defining strategies and getting updated information but also in getting diverse human beings to pull together without falling apart.

Jesus is a role model for team leaders everywhere. Teach Your Team to Fish offers dozens of stories from the Bible, showing how Jesus managed his team of disciples and other followers, with suggestions for how to apply these lessons to real-world teambuilding and management problems. It offers guidance and inspiration

• How to excite your team members in order to motivate them
• How to ground them so they’ll be realistic about what can be achieved
• How to transform them into a truly well-functioning team
• How to release them into the world to improve teams elsewhere

Laurie Beth Jones provides many examples of companies in which teams work well together and offers lessons that can help team leaders everywhere sustain themselves and achieve their common goals.

Genres: Leadership, Business, Christian

204 pages, Paperback

First published May 14, 2002

Reviews

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rated: B-
Love the works that Laurie Beth Jones does with her books -- using scripture and biblical principles to demonstrate just how practical God's Word truly is. In some cases, it is a stretch either bending a verse to support a business principle or bending a business example to fit a verse. Intent is good. Not sure all the wisdom may not have a counter principle that could also be biblically supported. Good read with some notables.

[Marina Long · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF

I thought that I could power through this for the sake of my professional development.

...then Laurie used the word genitals completely out of context.

I didn't learn much in the first quarter of this book other than how to apply business models to Jesus' teachings and that the author is a mediocre storyteller.

[Marie · Rating 4 out of 5]

A book worth reading many times!

[hemlet kiai · Rating 3 out of 5]

spiritually enlightening on how to create a great team based on jesus’ leadership style.

[James Laginess · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of the best books I've ever read about management...it's simple and has great flow; as each chapter unfolds a new story about Jesus and what we can learn from his qualities as the greatest leader to ever walk the earth. If you work in the business world with people and especially if you manage others in a Team environment; I recommend this as the first book to read regarding management instruction......next of course is the One Minute Manager!

[Ira · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book showed me the "down-hearted" ways in building team through Jesus' leadership. www.iralennon.blogspot.com

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[Sherry · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked parts of it. The author and I come from a different starting point, but there were some nuggets to be gleaned.

[Hope · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great professional read.

[Phil · Rating 3 out of 5]

Shows how Jesus managed his team.