Christianity 9 to 5 Magazine: Practical resources for living your faith at work

John Wooden, 1911-2010, is widely-acclaimed as the most successful college basketball coach in history, having led the UCLA Bruins men’s team to ten NCAA national championships in twelve years. But "winning" is not how Coach Wooden defined success. Here are two brief excerpts from his bestseller, Wooden on Leadership.

We're making tough calls all the time, both at work and at home. But we may be better off if we don't make them alone. A longstanding Quaker method called a "clearness committee" helps us tap the wisdom of others and may provide breakthrough guidance.

Contemporary ethics training is unlikely to actually change behavior. But if we’re serious about change—about training people to be morally good and to consistently do the right thing—there is a time-honored way to do it.

Anson Dorrance is the women’s soccer coach at the University of North Carolina. Under his leadership, this Division 1 team has won 20 of the last 28 NCAA championships, compiling a winning percentage of .963 and at one point, a 101-game unbeaten streak. How do they do it? And what can other leaders learn from Dorrance's experience? The starting point, he says, is to set the bar high.

There’s a standard process for getting better results – a classic approach that traces its roots to Deming and Drucker, the wisest management thinkers of the 20th century. And it applies just as much to your personal life as it does to your professional life.

You think you’re busy? How busy would you be if you were the Chief Technology Officer at Intel? Here are his secrets to success for putting family before work.

The leader who intends to grow intellectually and spiritually will make a habit of reading. Just as lawyers must be read regularly to keep up on case law and doctors must read to stay current in health care, so it is with any leader who wants to excel. This excerpt from Sanders' classic, Spiritual Leadership, also includes practical advice for Christian leaders about what to read and how to read it.

The effective teacher always teaches from the overflow of a full life. If you stop growing today, you’ll stop teaching tomorrow. Neither personality nor methodology can substitute for this principle.We can't impart what we don't possess. If we don’t know it—truly know it—we can’t give it.

There's a lot of advice out there—some good, some not so good—for how to handle that conversation you've been dreading. Here's a handy checklist from the most reliable Source.

If you’re interested in using the web to share your ideas, advance your ministry or simply reach people with the good news of the gospel, learn from someone who’s been doing it for years. Dr. Craig von Buseck is Ministries Director for CBN.com (the Web site of the Christian Broadcasting Network), and the author of a new book entitled NetCasters: Using the Internet to Make Fishers of Men. This is Chapter 3 from that book, offering plenty of practical tips to get you started. You can also find a brief interview with Dr. von Buseck by clicking here

Lee Strobel, a former atheist and hard-nosed, hard-living Chicago Tribune reporter, has for decades been putting his communication skills to good use for God as a pastor and book writer. And he’s learned during that time that telling people about Jesus is not a drag but an adventure. This is the Introduction and Chapter One from his new book, Unexpected Adventure.

In American society, we don’t talk much about “calling” anymore. Instead, we’re much more likely to think in terms of career. But that can be a trap, says Pastor Ortberg. A calling is something I do for God while a career threatens to become my god.

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