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The goals of this book are to describe what management theory and practice looked like in the first century, to use this as a lens to examine what the Gospel of Luke says about management, and then to draw out implications for today. It turns out that management is a dominant theme in the Gospel, that its message is consistently countercultural, and that Luke contains a four-phase process model to help readers implement change. The book presents a new way to understand the Gospel and the moral foundations of modern management.
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For example, this is unlike Bruce Barton’s The Man Nobody Knows (1925), where Jesus is described as “the founder of modern business” (159), and which has been called the second most-read life of Jesus ever written in the United States, with two hundred and fifty thousand copies sold in 1925 and 1926 alone. The book even resulted in a silent movie of the same title (Elzey, 1978). This is also unlike Laurie Beth Jones’s (1995) best seller Jesus CEO, which presents Jesus as a “‘CEO’ who took a disorganized ‘staff’ of twelve and built a thriving enterprise” (Jones, 1995: back cover).
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Dyck, B. (2013). Overview of this Book. In: Management and the Gospel. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137315861_1
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