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Yikes! I Don't Know What I Don't Know!
Read What Others Are Saying About "Buckets" (see below) Read a Sample Chapter: Bucket 1 - The Results Bucket
Copyright 2008, John W. Pearson. All rights reserved. Published by Regal Books. Watch this fun Buckets "TV Commercial" online. Click here! Leaders and managers have an impossible challenge! When they don’t know what they don’t know, the Law of Unintended Consequences kicks in quickly! Now there’s help! Mastering the Management Buckets delivers practical and integrated insights on the 20 core competencies (the buckets) that every business, nonprofit and church team must master in order to create a sustainable and God-honoring organization. The 20 management buckets system in the three arenas—Cause, Community and Corporation—provides new managers with a crash course in Management 101, plus a mental filing system for life-in-the-trenches-at-work. Veteran leaders will use this idea-a-page book for mentoring their key people in The Results Bucket, The Customer Bucket, The Strategy Bucket, The People Bucket, The Hoopla! Bucket, The Crisis Bucket, The Delegation Bucket and the 13 other core competencies. Team members will experience new confidence and increased spiritual insight as they move from “I don’t know what I don’t know,” to “I have an action plan to address what I know I don’t know.” Take This Management Buckets Self-Assessment Tool With Your Team! Download this 20-question self-assessment check-up that measures your management knowledge at four levels: Red, Yellow, Green and Blue. Are you in the "Head-in-Sand Syndrome" or moving to the "Good to Great System?" Download the two-page PDF here. Who is holding you accountable for your Green action plans?
Comments About "Buckets" from Leaders and Readers: This is certainly one of the first books a Christian leader should read. John puts the cookies on the lowest shelf. He speaks from the perspective of 30 years as a CEO, the perspective you have as a Christian leader. Yea God! Yea John! This is a very practical, supremely useful book. It deserves a wide audience. BOB BUFORD Chairman of the Board The Buford Foundation & Leadership Network Mastering the Management Buckets is simply the best book I have read on Christian management of nonprofit organizations. It is a perfect balance between Biblical wisdom and a Harvard MBA. DENNIS BAKKE Author of the national best-selling book, Joy at Work As World Vision helps transform the lives of the world’s poorest children and families in nearly 100 countries, we strive to be leaders and managers who honor God every day. That’s not easy! Mastering the Management Buckets is a fresh reminder of the complexity of the leadership challenge—yet John’s book also delivers practical management insights for our leaders and our in-the-trenches people. RICHARD E. STEARNS President World Vision U.S. John Pearson has written a wonderful book that is not only for those aspiring to leadership positions, but those who have been in the management ranks for years. I not only enjoyed it, I learned a few things to boot! So buy the book, grab a cup of coffee, put your feet up, and take notes! DIANE PASSNO Senior Vice President Focus on the Family John Pearson’s book, Mastering the Management Buckets, is both a great idea-generating tool and ready reference guide for the nonprofit manager. It’s a book I’ll definitely keep in my library. KENNETH A. BEHR President ECFA
John Pearson has just thrown a bucket of cold water into my face…and it woke me up! After reading Mastering the Management Buckets, I was stunned to realize how lazy I had become in my own day to day leadership responsibilities. John has taken all things management and artfully organized them into a system personally honed over the past 35 years, and validates it with scripture. This book is a baptism—a full immersion of management theory and practice—that will enable any leader, seasoned or fresh, to get the results that are not only desired, but critical for mission effectiveness.
MAJOR GEORGE HOOD National Community Relations & Development Secretary The Salvation Army – USA National Headquarters Whether you need help with the bottom-line insights in The Results Bucket, or it's time to add more fun to your workplace with the best practices in The Hoopla! Bucket, I enthusiastically recommend Mastering the Management Buckets. Buy a bucketful of books and bless your hard-working team members! FRANK LOFARO President/CEO Christian Leadership Alliance (formerly Christian Management Association) From years of successful practice, John Pearson has captured, in one book, what is core to leadership and management. Mastering the Management Buckets is a must to read and then keep as a reference book for veteran and beginner alike. BOB KOBIELUSH President Christian Camp and Conference Association John has mentored our board and our senior leaders and managers with these core competencies—and we’re always challenged to a higher standard of effectiveness. I just ordered 40 books to ensure that we’re mastering all 20 management buckets!
DR. JOHN T. WALLING
President/CEO
Christian Community Credit Union
An outstanding tool that will be an effective instrument for any manager. STEVE MARR Author, Proverbs for Business, and Speaker, Business Consultant BusinessProverbs.com
John Pearson has collected his experience, wisdom, common sense, and extensive network in his new book, Mastering the Management Buckets. It has already become a "go to" reference guide and refresher for me, organized and filled with practical advice that I will include in all of my academic, ministry, and marketplace activities.
CONNIE SALIOS
National Managing Partner
The Barnabas Group
As John mentions in his book, I served 27 years as a Chamber of Commerce president—and worked with 27 different board chairs! I learned early on that it took a committed team of board members, staff and volunteers to achieve our mission. Leadership and management can be complex—but it’s mostly about the basics: blocking and tackling. This book will bring you back to the basics. I recommend it!
GEORGE DUFF
Former President Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce, and Senior Adviser, Christian Management Association Want to manage well? This book is your personal Mentor. Read it. Use it. Teach it. Give it. I don't know of a management basics book that is better. It will guide you to a new level of excellence. ROBERT C. ANDRINGA, Ph.D.
Managing Partner, The Andringa Group, and President Emeritus, Council for Christian Colleges & Universities; and co-author, Good Governance for Nonprofits: Developing Principles and Policies for an Effective Board
I’ve seen John in action up close. He’s a pro, one of the smartest guys I know and the real deal. Now you too can enhance your leadership and management savvy by reading Mastering the Management Buckets. The practical principles in each bucket jump off the pages—and you can put them to work immediately.
DR. RON JENSON
Chairman, Future Achievement, and author, Achieving Authentic Success
John Pearson has combined 30+ years of lessons learned from his leadership of three flagship Christian associations with highly developed organizational and creative writing skills to produce a book that is incredibly helpful to anyone at any level in nonprofit leadership. You’ll need more than buckets – you’ll need 55 gallon drums - to capture all his good ideas.
DICK TOWNER
Executive Director, Good $ense Movement (Willow Creek Association)
"Transformational Stewardship for the Local Church"
Mastering the Management Buckets is like a bible for managers. We all have tools we go to again and again to get the job done and John Pearson has given us that kind of tool. Put this book on your desk, not on your book shelf. If you are just getting into the management business you may want to sleep with it under your pillow! The buckets and balls arrangement of the book help you find bottom line answers for those tough management challenges right when you need them. While the book is built on a foundation of sound management theories, each chapter (bucket) leads you into the personal action next steps required of a wise, skillful and competent leader.
GARY BISHOP
Regional Director, The Pocket Testament League
(Note: Gary is the former CEO of Mission Aviation Fellowship and Pittsburgh International Airport. He also serves on numerous boards.)
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