Bøger af Gary Gagliardi

This book was written to accomplish four goals: To encourage study of Jesus's words outside his storyTo show how to use his words to inspire prayersTo provide a selection of prayers on different topicsTo offer a template for creating more specific prayers.This work extends Pastor Rick Warren's 40 Days of Prayer concept for the specific purpose of studying Jesus's words. In his book, Pastor Warren suggested using the Lord's Prayer as a template for prayer in general. This book extends his idea by using all of the Savior's words in Matthew as a template for a set of prayers-based on my fifteen years of studying Christ's words in the original Greek.Unlike Warren's work, however, this book is designed both for study and for use as a prayer book. It offers you a guide to how you can use Jesus's own words to inspire your own prayers.On this book's left-hand pages, I show each of Jesus's spoken words in the Gospel of Matthew. On the facing right-hand pages, each line of Jesus's words inspires a line in a prayer.The verses from Matthew are shown in their original order, chapter after chapter, without their narrative. While we normally hear Jesus's words in the context of his story, by taking his words out of that story we can hear them in a new way: as if they were addressed to us personally today, not just to those around him then.I separated these verses into forty days for easier study. I used the chapter divisions and the logical breaks between topics within a chapter to create the separate prayers.Each prayer focuses on a specific topic. That topic was suggested by the content of Jesus's words. In the original story, his words may have addressed a number of different situations, but taken together they seem to offer a unifying theme. I used these themes to create the resulting prayers. Prayers average about a page and a half each. The shortest is one verse. The longest is three pages. These prayers are just one way to interpret the Lord's words as prayer. They are generalized and written in the first person plural, like the Lord's Prayer itself. However, they are designed to inspire more specific prayers relating to your own unique situation.These prayers can be used to give you words when you cannot find your own, or they can aid you in discovering your own words to express your own thoughts and feelings. This book can be used in several different ways. Each of these approaches offers different advantages.You can study the left-hand pages with Christ's words by themselves, ignoring the facing prayer. This approach allows you to rediscover what Christ said. By reading his words without their narrative, you can ponder his message for us today.You can read one verse of Christ's words and then the corresponding line of prayer. I think of this as the "call and response" method. Christ is calling to us with his words and we are responding directly to him with our prayer.You can also read one line of Christ's words, read a line of the prayer, and then imagine your own prayer: the "personal call and response." You are responding directly to him with your own words, beginning by changing the plural "we" pronouns to singular "I" pronouns. This book's format leaves plenty of spaces between lines and in the columns to write down your prayers if you so desire.Finally, you can use this work as a prayer book alone, concentrating on the right-hand prayer pages and using the index to find the prayer(s) you need. Using the book in this way, you or your prayer group will find that prayers adapted directly from Christ's words are powerful tools for addressing many different issues. There are prayers for healing, prayers for wisdom, prayers against self-deception, prayers for guidance, and so on.

This is Volume Six (47 articles) of our Art of War Playbook. This is the longest volume of the Playbook. The principles in this volume explain the nature of a competitive campaign, the nine common situations that arise in campaigns, and the proper responses to those situations. The Playbook itself is the culmination of over a decade of work breaking down Sun Tzu's principles into a series of step-by-step practical articles by the Institute's multiple award-winning author and internationally recognized Art of War expert, Gary Gagliardi. The work explains the concepts in the verses of Sun Tzu's classic on strategy in detail, explaining the situations to which they apply the steps in Sun Tzu's system for using them with examples from modern competition. While the original Art of War was originally written for military generals who understood the philosophical concepts of ancient China, our Art of War Plabook is written for today's readers and provide enough descriptive material so that Sun Tzu's ideas can actually be used in everyday life. The Art of War Playbook puts Sun Tzu's ideas into everyday, practical language as a book of instruction. Because of its size and detail, the Rule Book is published in nine volumes. The concepts covered in this volume are listed below: Rule Book Overview About Positions About Responding To Situations 6.0.0 Situation Response 6.1.0 Situation Recognition 6.1.1 Conditioned Reflexes 6.1.2 Prioritizing Conditions 6.2.0 Campaign Evaluation 6.2.1 Campaign Flow 6.2.2 Campaign Goals 6.3.0 Campaign Patterns 6.3.1 Early-Stage Situations 6.3.2 Middle-Stage Situations 6.3.3 Late-Stage Situations 6.4.0 Nine Situations 6.4.1 Dissipating Situations 6.4.2 Easy Situations 6.4.3 Contentious Situations 6.4.4 Open Situations 6.4.5 Intersecting Situations 6.4.6 Serious Situations 6.4.7 Difficult Situations 6.4.8 Limited Situations 6.4.9 Desperate Situations 6.5.0 Nine Responses 6.5.1 Dissipating Response 6.5.2 Easy Response 6.5.3 Contentious Response 6.5.4 Open Response 6.5.5 Intersecting Response 6.5.6 Serious Response 6.5.7 Difficult Response 6.5.8 Limited Response 6.5.9 Desperate Response 6.6.0 Campaign Pause 6.7.0 Tailoring to Conditions 6.7.1 Form Adjustments 6.7.2 Size Adjustments 6.7.3 Strength Adjustments 6.8.0 Competitive Psychology 6.8.1 Adversity and Creativity 6.8.2 Strength in Adversity 6.8.3 Individual Toughness The Art of War Rule Book Series About the Translator and Author Other Art of War Books by Gary Gagliardi Glossary of Key Concepts The Nine Volumes of the Playbook cover the following topics: 1. Positions, 2. Perspective, 3. Opportunities, 4. Probability, 5. Mistakes, 6. Situations, 7. Momentum, 8. Rewards, and 9. Vulnerabilities.

This is Book Two of Sun Tzu's Art of War Playbook explaining the principles of Sun Tzu's strategy. It contains the last five volumes of the work (130 articles) explains 1) minimizing strategic mistakes, 2) recognizing and responding to common strategic situations, 3) creating momentum, 4) wining rewards, and 5) identifying, attacking, and defending vulnerabilities. The Playbook itself is the culmination of over a decade of work breaking down Sun Tzu's principles into a series of step-by-step practical articles by the Institute's multiple award-winning author and internationally recognized Art of War expert, Gary Gagliardi. The work explains the concepts in the verses of Sun Tzu's classic on strategy in detail, explaining the situations to which they apply the steps in Sun Tzu's system for using them with examples from modern competition. While the original Art of War was originally written for military generals who understood the philosophical concepts of ancient China, our Art of War Playbook is written for today's readers and provide enough descriptive material so that Sun Tzu's ideas can actually be used in everyday life. The Art of War Playbook puts Sun Tzu's ideas into everyday, practical language as a book of instruction. Because of its size and detail, the Playbook is published in nine volumes. The specific topics examined in these last five volumes (in this one book) are listed below: Playbook Overview About Minimizing MistakesMinimizing MistakesMission PrioritiesEvent PressureUnproductive ResponsibilityOpportunity ExplorationChoosing AdaptabilityCampaign MethodsUnplanned StepsReaction TimeSpeed and QuicknessOpportunity WindowsInformation FreshnessMinimizing ActionTesting ValueSuccessful MistakesFocused PowerForce SizeDistance LimitationsEvaluation DeadlinesDefensive AdvancesDefense PriorityActing NowAbout Responding to SituationsSituation ResponseSituation RecognitionConditioned ReflexesPrioritizing ConditionsCampaign EvaluationCampaign FlowCampaign GoalsCampaign PatternsEarly-Stage SituationsMiddle-Stage SituationsLate-Stage SituationsNine Situations Dissipating SituationsEasy SituationsContentious SituationsOpen SituationsIntersecting SituationsSerious SituationsDifficult SituationsLimited SituationsDesperate SituationsNine ResponsesDissipating ResponseEasy ResponseContentious ResponseOpen ResponseIntersecting ResponseSerious ResponseDifficult ResponseLimited ResponseDesperate ResponseCampaign PauseTailoring to ConditionsForm AdjustmentsSize AdjustmentsStrength AdjustmentsCompetitive PsychologyAdversity and CreativityStrength in AdversityIndividual ToughnessAbout Creating MomentumcCreating MomentumOrder from ChaosCreating SurpriseMomentum PsychologyStandards and InnovationStandards FirstProven MethodsPreparing ExpectationsStrategic Innovation Expected ElementsElemental RearrangementCreative InnovationCompetitive TimingTiming MethodsMomentum TimingInterrupting PatternsMomentum LimitationsMomentum ConversionThe Spread of InnovationProductive CompetitionResource DiscoveryGround CreationAbout Winning RewardsWinning RewardsSuccessful PositionsTransforming ResourcesReward BoundariesReward TimingMaking ClaimsSecuring RewardsGauging ValueDistinctive Packaging Rules of EngagementPosition ProductionIndividual SupportLeveraging EmotionsWinning AttentionProductivity ImprovementPosition ErosionAbandoning PositionsAbout VulnerabilitiesUnderstanding VulnerabilityFire Storm VulnerabilityClimate RivalsThreat DevelopmentPoints of VulnerabilityPersonnel RiskImmediate Resource RiskLogistics RiskAsset RiskOrganizational RiskCrisis LeadershipMutual DangerMessage ControlCrisis DefenseDivision Defense Panic DefenseDefending OpeningsDefending AlliancesDefensive BalanceCrisis ExploitationAdversarial OpportunitiesAvoiding EmotionConstant VigilanceGlossary of Key Concepts