Laurie Beth Jones - Teach Your Team to Fish: Using Ancient Wisdom for Inspired Teamwork

Teach Your Team to Fish is filled with powerful insights drawn from the life of Jesus. Delving into the riches of his leadership wisdom, Laurie Beth Jones offers fresh perspective and provocative challenges that will equip leaders to propel their teams toward innovation and excellence.

Wayne Hastings, coauthor of
Trust Me: Developing a Leadership
Style People Will Follow

Think of it. Whoever built a higher performing team than Jesus! Now Laurie Beth Jones makes this ancient wisdom accessible and useful to twenty-first-century leaders. Learn from the Master.

Bob Buford, author of
Halftime: Changing Your Game Plan
from Success to Significanceand
Stuck in Halftime: Reinvesting
Your One and Only Life

Laurie Beth Jones beautifully points aspiring team leaders and builders to the Master Servant Leader and Builder, Jesus Christ. Teach Your Team to Fish is rich in inspiration and instruction well worth the read, and can be life-changing.

Commissioner Robert A. Watson,
retired national commander,
Salvation Army, and author of
The Most Effective Organization in the U.S.

Teach Your Team to Fish has all the ingredients of a terrific book. Laurie Beth Jones has shared her expertise on the subject of team building with a cutting edge focus on marketplace words like community and connection.

Stan Toler, author of The Secret Blend

Praise for Jesus, CEO

A perfect book for leaders looking to model a kind and loving leadership style. Jones gives you many practical ideas on how to add love, inspiration, and goodwill into your organization.

Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager

I was deeply impacted as I read this book Laurie Beth Jones has put together a powerful book that will influence corporate America.

Pat Williams, general manager, Orlando Magic

[Laurie Beth Jones is] on the leading edge of the spiritual and business movement in this country. [Jesus, CEO] is a phenomenal blend of practical wisdom and spiritual truths that is humorous, profound, and highly readable.

George Marks, director, Red Rose Distribution

Jones presents Jesus not as a religious messiah but as an executive leader A kind of how-to manual for succeeding as corporate officers internally, externally, and for eternity.

San Diego Union Tribune

[Jones] sentiments as expressed here ring with sincerity. Her thoughtful use of Jesus biblical sayings on belief, boldness, discipline, and the like add to her credibility.

Publishers Weekly

This books strength lies in its ability to surprise two very different groups of readers: those put off by a title slanted toward corporate success and those attracted by the titles promise of a step-by-step guide to such success Practical and pithy advice for anyone (whether CEO or not) who works with other people to get things done.

Booklist

The Path

Laurie Beth Jones sprinkles the narrative with enough humor and personal detail that its easy to be swept along Its the blend of the fabulous and the personal that makes The Path so inspirational. Readers who identify with Joness Christianity will find the book transcendent; those who dont will still be pulled along to examine their talents, values, and purpose.

Worldbusiness

Offer[s] practical, useful help to Christians and nonbelievers alike. Jones has made her mark, and her books are here to stay.

Christian Retailing

The Power of Positive Prophecy

Im a Laurie Beth Jones fan. Her book The Power of Positive Prophecy offers a unique perspective on prophecy. Read it! Laurie Beth cares about you and wants to help you make the most of your life.

Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager

Praise for Laurie Beth Jones

[Joness] style is engaging and breezy with enough personal details and humor that make it easy to be swept along. While loosely hitting biblical touchstones, she makes an embracing case for Jesus as a modern role model.

Tom Depoto, Star-Ledger (Newark, N.J.)

Also by Laurie Beth Jones

Jesus, CEO
Using Ancient Wisdom for Visionary Leadership

The Path
Creating Your Mission Statement for Work and for Life

Jesus in Blue Jeans
A Practical Guide to Everyday Spirituality

Grow Something Besides Old
Seeds for a Joyful Life

The Power of Positive Prophecy
Finding the Hidden Potential in Everyday Life

Jesus, Inc.:
The Visionary Path
An Entrepreneurs Guide to True Success

Copyright 2002 by Laurie Beth Jones
Foreword copyright 2002 by Ken Blanchard

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

Published by Three Rivers Press, New York, New York.
Member of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc.
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This book is copublished with WaterBrook Press, 12265 Oracle Boulevard, Suite 200 Colorado Springs, Colorado 80921, a division of Random House, Inc.

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Originally published in hardcover by Crown Business, a division of Random House, Inc., in 2002.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Jones, Laurie Beth.
Teach your team to fish: using ancient wisdom for inspired teamwork /
Laurie Beth Jones.
1. Teams in the workplace. 2. Executive ability. 3. Leadership. 4. Jesus Christ Leadership. I. Title
HD66 .J655 2002
658.402 dc21 2001047743

eISBN: 978-1-4000-4528-0

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To Doug Hawthorne, one of the greatest Fishermen I have ever
met, and to all teambuilders everywhere, who stand on the
shore and feel humbled by just how deep the sea really is.

Today, as never before in history, organizational leaders are realizing that to maximize performance people need to be organized in teams. No longer can we depend upon a few peak performers to make the difference. The mantra today is none of us is as smart as all of us.

People who get the importance of teamwork and are breaking new ground in the area of teambuilding, often think of themselves as creative innovators. Thats what I used to think I was years ago when I helped develop Situation Leadership and