The Desert Southwest Conference

Leadership

      Case Study: Aging Family Business Makes Hard Choices

      http://www.inc.com/magazine/20060601/handson-casestudy.html

 

      Solving Real Problems

      http://www.inc.com/resources/office/articles/20061001/morgan.html

 

      Leadership Based Not On Vision or Personality

      http://www.inc.com/magazine/19980101/852.html

 

      The Idiocy of Collaboration and Teamwork

      http://www.inc.com/magazine/20060901/column-freedman.html

 

      To Succeed We Have to Know Four Things

      http://www.inc.com/magazine/20060901/hidi-litle.html

 

      The Best Managers

      http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/149029.php

 

      Boom Towns 2006

      http://www.inc.com/magazine/20060501/boomtowns-intro.html

 

      Beware of Cheapening the Gospel

      http://www.beliefnet.com/story/196/story_19638_1.html

 

      Importance Of Outreach

      http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13530551/site/newsweek/?page=5

 

      How the Web Reaches even those approaching retirement

      http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13770598/site/newsweek/

 

      People Killers

      http://www.inc.com/magazine/20060601/column-buchanan.html

 

      Getting the Right People to Work With

      http://hiring.inc.com/columns/whelmlinger/20060912.html

 

      Getting Good Information from Exit Interviews

      http://www.inc.com/magazine/20060401/handson-managing.html

 

      Who Pays the Price When You Overcommit? 

      http://www.inc.com/magazine/20060301/confessions.html

 

      Revitalization in Business

      http://www.inc.com/magazine/20060301/handson-casestudy.html

 

      Consider the Impossible

      http://www.inc.com/magazine/20060201/column-hanft.html

 

      Understanding Gen-X

      http://www.inc.com/magazine/20060101/priority-hr.html

 

        Motivating People

      http://www.inc.com/slideshow_INC/slideviewer.cgi?list=motivateemployees&refresh=15&design=hiringcenter

 

           

Managing Meetings

      Making Meetings Matter

      http://www.inc.com/partners/gotomeeting/articles/20060901/feature.html

 

      Escape from Meeting Hell

      http://www.inc.com/partners/gotomeeting/articles/20060901/escape.html

 

      Making Meetings Effective

      http://www.inc.com/partners/gotomeeting/articles/20060901/effective.html

 

Street Smart Articles by Norm Broadsky

      http://www.inc.com/magazine/columns/streetsmarts/index.html

 

Leadership Articles by Chris Musselwhite

      http://www.inc.com/resources/leadership/columns/musselwhite.html

 

Business Articles by Dale Daunten

      http://www.dauten.com/dalescolumns.html

 

Thriving Churches

      United Methodist Church of the Resurrection

                 http://www.dauten.com/dalescolumns.html

 

      First UMC in Kalamazoo Michigan

                  http://www.umc-kzo.org/moreinfo/default.asp

 

      Mars Hill Community Church

                  http://www.mhbcmi.org/findex.html

 

      Granger Community Church

                  http://www.gccwired.com/

 

 

Books:

 

Other Resources

 

      William Willimon’s weekly e-publication

                  Send e-mail request to: dclifton(at)northalabamaumc.org

 

      Lovett Weems’ bi-monthly e-publication on Leadership

                  Send e-mail request to: jearnold(at)wesleysem.edu

 

      Vision Magazine: Ministry through Multimedia

                  http://www.vision-mag.com/

 

      Worship Videos

                  http://www.timbuktoons.com/

                  http://www.bluefishtv.com/

                  http://www.highwayvideo.com/

                       

 

Quotes:

 

“I watched all of my best friends – Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Keith Moon, every one of them – die trying to live their image.”  Alice Cooper

 

1949

Year in which Popular Mechanics magazine sug­gested that: "Computers in the future may... perhaps only weigh 1.5 tons."

 

1977

Year in which Kenneth Olsen, president and founder of Digital Equipment Corp.,stated: "There is no reason for any individual to have a

computer in their home."

 

23O million

Number of personal comput­ers in use in the U.S. in 2005. according to Computer industry Almanac.

 

 

1,2,3  Rank of Yuma, St. George, Utah, and Cape Coral-Fort Myers,Fla., as the top cities in which to do business.

 

1903 Year in which a president of a Michigan savings bank advised Horace Rackham, Henry Ford's lawyer, not to invest in his client's company, telling him, 'The horse is here to stay, but the automo­bile is only a novelty - a fad."

 

$5,OOO Amount of Ford Motor Co. stock Rackham purchased anyway.

 

$12.5 million Amount for which Rackham sold this stock several years later.

 

Sources: Quotes provided by Newsweek; Computer Industry Almanac.