Bøger af David Firth

The seminal work on making work fun! Fun' is small word that points to any number of positive qualities we all want have our work to have: meaning, purpose, enjoyment and contribution. This is a book about how to create those things. If you find yourself too often counting down the days to the weekend, this book is for you! How to Make Work Fun! is aimed at both employees (because no matter how high up the ladder we go, we still are one) and at managers - because there's loads of you out there right now who could make a real difference to the quality of work in your business - and to the quality of lives of the people who work with you. This playful and provocative book shows how to generate a culture of fun so that: playfulness can boost creativity, honesty can be the foundation for communication, mistakes can generate learning, and humor can demonstrate your human-ness. The greatest fun of all, David Firth has found, is in doing work that makes a difference. This book demonstrates exactly what to do to start making that journey, wherever you are in your organization or in your career.

A vision for a new relationship with work. This letter to the President of The United States is inspired by the famous quotation from Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet: Work is Love Made Visible.

How to have work be as good for your soul as it is for the mortgage payments. This book is for those of us how have had enough of the status quo and want to empower ourselves to live life - and work - fully. David Firth's book has an ambitious subtitle: 'How to be Happy and Successful by Utterly Transforming Your Work.' In it he advocates for a major shift in what we have been taught. He shows how to become more aware of the dominant story about work in our society and be willing to choose our own narrative. The deeply engrained and mostly unchallenged story about work is that it is the thing you have to do to pay the bills - and that the most important first thing you need to do in life is 'get a good job' or 'make a good living' before you can attend later to the nice to haves - like creating a satisfying life. That wouldn't be so bad a foundation were it not that so many people have difficult, stressful and unrewarding experiences of their life in work.In this book, David Firth offers us a fundamental challenge by showing how the craft of 'making a living' is profoundly intertwined with the art of 'creating a life.' We simply need to accept that we are at the source, the cause of it all.This is a courageous act - because the old disempowering story of work is so strong in the world - and David shows how to make it happen.From 'Making a Living' to 'Creating a Life' explores personal transformation in dealing constructively with difficult bosses, making sense of office politics, working well with challenging colleagues, eliminating overwhelm and busy-ness, discovering freedom when surrounded by constraints and ultimately finding meaning and purpose in work.Written in compact chapters that are designed to be thought-provoking, funny and helpful, David Firth shows how to rise above our cultural conditioning and create a life driven by true passion, purpose - and great work!FROM THE AUTHORHello everyone! Look, I'm going to blow my own trumpet here: I love this book! I believe it shows people how they can truly enjoy and derive deep satisfaction from their work, whatever it is they happen to do for a living.But the book goes further than that: it challenges head-on the default conversation that work is, at best, the thing that earns the money to pay for what we'd rather be doing, or, at worst, that it's a curse for not having been born rich.What if we had a new vision for work, not as a necessary evil, but as a source of all the great things we want our lives to be; an expression of who we are; a way of serving rather than getting; a legacy we want to leave to the world? That's the book's promise.I love this book also because I think it exposes a major lie. It's a well-intentioned, noble lie, but it's simply untrue nonetheless. Best leadership education continues to tell us that The Boss is the source of inspiration, motivation, reassurance about the future and so on. And that's why we continue to complain about our bosses so much: they simply cannot live up to our ideals. We place way too much expectation on those above us to fulfill the things - eg inspiration, motivation, reassurance about the future - that deep down we know can only come from inside us.So with this book, I want to challenge people to be at work in a more empowered, confident, 'inside-out' way than they might be currently. I think that puts readers back in control - and establishes them as the cause of things rather than the effect or circumstances.

Looking at the Book of Esther through the lens of intertextuality, this collection considers its connections with each division of the Hebrew Bible, along with texts throughout history. Through its exploration, it provides and invites further study into the relationship between Esther and its intertexts, many which are under explored. Topics covered in the book include considerations of Esther alongside the Torah and the prophetic books, as well as in dialogue with the Qumran community.As an edited collection, the book draws together scholars with expertise in the wide variety of texts that are intertextually connected with Esther, offering the reader a more nuanced and informed discussion. By including some reflection on the nature of intertextuality as a 'method', it also enables the reader to appreciate the varying intertextual approaches currently employed in biblical studies. In applying these to a focused analysis of Esther, this collection will facilitate greater insight on both the book of Esther and current methodological research.

"A beautiful, poetic, forceful and, above all, useful book on the impact of words in shaping our futures. It argues for care in choosing the words (and the thoughts that precede them) so that we create what we would choose to create. I strongly recommend this book as a short but forceful course in living."Paul Birch, Vision JuiceDavid Firth, having shown how adept he is in challenging thinking around work and leadership in books such as How to Make Work Fun! and From Making a Living to Creating a Life, now turns his attention in this book to the subject of 'everybody's panacea for everything' - communication.What is different about his approach to communication is that, rather than looking at impact and influence alone - the results we try our best to engineer - David shows how communication, stories, language and words are the in fact the formative building blocks of a full and creative life. Our words may impact others in the way we intend or not, but they certainly impact us first. Indeed, we literally construct our life one word at a time.This then is an innovative and thrilling approach to communication as working 'inside out.'At once thought-provoking and action-oriented, and written with great style and wit, David Firth shows how we can use language to: create purposedeclare inspiring futuresdefeat negative self-talkbuild solid and lasting relationshipseliminate - as in erase - overwhelm, overload and stress.In Change Your World One Word at a Time, David demonstrates clear us how to shift how we see ourselves, how others see us and how futures that before seemed complicated and doubtful now show up as clear and inspiring.FROM THE AUTHORMany of you know the story of Helen Keller, perhaps through movie The Miracle Worker. She was the child who was eventually coaxed and prodded out of the silent darkness of being deaf, dumb and blind by her guide and teacher. What happened? Did she suddenly hear? No. Did she stop being blind? No. No - but in one beautiful, astonishing moment she 'got' language. As she wrote later in her autobiography: ..."suddenly, I knew not how or where or when, my brain felt the impact of another mind, and I awoke to language, to knowledge, to love, to the usual concepts of nature, good and evil. I was actually lifted from nothingness to human life.In other words, language is first. Then all the other great stuff - knowledge, love etc - can come rushing in.That's what this book is about. How to have all the other great things rush into your life by setting up a powerful foundation of language: starting with what, why and how you choose to speak to yourself and others.

"Joshua is not merely a story of conquest. It's a treasure trove of theology. David G. Firth interprets the book of Joshua with a sensitivity to its role as Christian Scripture. Joshua is marginalized in many churches, often because its message is misunderstood. Firth reveals that, rather than simply being a story of conquest, Joshua is concerned with matters of identity and faithfulness. It exhorts God's people to live out their calling in light of God's promises."--

We are faced with a breakdown of 'We' - in our fragmented communities, in our polarized media, and in our vindictive public discourse. More and more there is a feeling of separation and discord, of blame and making wrong. Unconditional Communication is a new way of thinking about communication that causes 'We' to happen, and is characterized by: Genuine authenticity & vulnerabilityA willingness to name and deal with reality A willing invitation to co-create shared outcomes and, most of all, The idea that our communication can be an act of service to others - rather the means to get something from others. Unconditional Communication is thought-provoking, funny and surprising, and, above all, grounded in practical solutions for creating a better world. Together.