. . . . . 講生意 ，學耶穌: (二) 彼得‧德魯克 (1909-2005)

Does the world need more theology/Bible professors?? « nijay k gupta

“To conclude, dialogue in the Malaysian context obviously addresses a host of sensitive issues. Dialogue is not just an occasion for academic discourse. It is an ongoing negotiation of power between elites of different social-religious groups. It goes beyond exchange of abstract ideas and aims to forge alliances to build common society.”

Excerpt from:
Krisis & Praxis » Christian-Muslim Dialogue: Building a Common Society

三民網路書店>杜拉克教我的17堂課

十年前左右接觸了杜拉克，便愛上了他。他的管理智慧實用而且接摸到當代思維。他不流連於學術之框框，而是把當代的思想討論，有時甚至是始創的觀察帶進對人群和機構管理的範疇。這正是他的書吸引我之處。

我當時便想如何能把他的思想結合入當代教會管理裡。目前坊間看過的基督教文章，記得胡志偉先生曾介紹和推介過杜拉克的思想，至於另有否較完整的著述，彷仍未有所見。

「本書作者威廉‧柯漢，是杜拉克指導的第一批博士畢業生之一。他在美國空軍做到將軍職。最後，成為全職教授，管理顧問、與多本書的作者，並跟杜拉克維持著終生的友誼。大師的教誨使他的事業與人生各層面，皆受益良多。」

目次
推薦文：杜拉克談作者－彼得‧杜拉克
推薦文：親身感受大師在課堂上的活力／伊拉‧傑克森
推薦文：課堂中的智慧先知杜拉克／詹文明
前言：杜拉克究竟教了我什麼？
緣起：我如何成為現代管理學之父的門生
特寫：課堂上的杜拉克 
第1堂課　大家都知道的事情往往是錯的
第2堂課　自信心是一步一步建立起來的
第3堂課　別老是重複過去成功的做法
第4堂課　面對問題時，無知比經驗更可貴
第5堂課　開發本行之外的第二專長
第6堂課　想要出類拔萃，就不能害怕失敗
第7堂課　行銷的目標是為了不必再推銷
第8堂課　倫理、榮譽、操守和法律
第9堂課　未來無法預測，但可以創造
第10堂課　每個人都要有所承擔
第11堂課　先了解部屬，才能領導他們
第12堂課　失敗者依然潛力無窮
第13堂課　每個大兵的背包裡，都有統帥的指揮棒
第14堂課　經營管理也能自動導航嗎？
第15堂課　擬定策略不能套公式
第16堂課　如何激勵知識工作者
第17堂課　杜拉克的自我發展原則
後語：謝謝你，彼得！
感謝詞

 深欲一讀而快！但身在國外，得書不易。

Simply to share this with friends and colleagues.

Feb. Prayer Points

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1. For the first time, the official press in China has publicly admitted the existence of 50 million unregistered house-church believers. Pray this will be a step towards a more liberal religious policy and genuine freedom to worship and evangelize.
2. There are still elements among officialdom who persecute Christians at the local level; pray that God will overrule so those who recognize the valuable contribution of Christians to society will take over control of policy and its implementation at both the national and local levels.
3. Rev. Thomas Wang, one of North America’s leading pastors, has inaugurated the “America Return to God” prayer movement. Evangelist Luis Palau addressed 500 participants last September (Great Commission News, Fall 2009). Pray that many more Chinese Christians in America will pray and take action to return the country to biblical standards.
4. China is close to becoming a 50% urban nation. Pray for effective gospel outreach in her vast cities which continue to see millions of poor rural migrant workers pouring in.
5. Continue to pray for dedicated workers in the earthquake stricken zone of northern Sichuan who are engaged in long-term rehabilitation work.
6. There are 5 million blind people in China. Pray that they will receive fair treatment in employment and that more Braille Christian materials can be produced for them.
7. House-church evangelists face many strains in their marriages and family life as they are often away from home for long stretches. Pray they will see that taking time with their wives and children is not unspiritual, but a necessity.
8. Pray for Mr. Li, sentenced to 10 years in prison in China, and for Mr. Zhang sentenced for 7 years (both Christians), for the “crime” of helping desperate North Korean refugees try to escape into Mongolia via Inner Mongolia (Barnabas Aid, December 2009.)
9. Pray for the strategic ministry of the large TSPM churches in Shanghai which attract many students and professionals.
10. A believer in Henan wrote to FEBC asking: “Je-Ho-Vah can be split into gods of three stages and in my hometown people all believe in the god ‘Vah’. Is this right?” This seems to be a distortion of the doctrine of the trinity; pray for rural Christians prey to strange heresies. May God send them true teachers and pastors.
11. During his November visit to China President Obama stated that “freedom of speech, of press and religion are not just core American values but we believe are universal rights” (Daily Telegraph, November 2009). Praise God for improvements in religious freedom in China; pray for greater openness to the implementation of religious freedoms at all levels of government.
12. Many tribal Christians in Yunnan (Lisu, Miao, Yi etc.) are drawn to the cities to find work, where they are in danger of losing their faith and distinctive culture. Pray they will find warm fellowship and good teaching from fellow believers in the cities.
13. “My husband has strayed far from God. He never goes to meetings. He persecutes and insults me. I pray for him every day but this seems not to work. I feel very weak and sad.” Pray for Mrs. Wang and her backslidden husband in Hubei, central China. (Letter to FEBC.)
14. At least 726,000 people in China are affected by schistosomiosis (snail fever) which is rampant in some rice-fields (The Economist, June 20, 2009). Pray for sufferers and for Christian doctors seeking to treat them.
15. Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei province, has more than 2 million inhabitants but only 1% are believed to be Christians (China’s Unreached Cities). Pray for effective outreach by the city’s Christian churches and house-church fellowships.
16. A senior health official revealed that China has a serious syphilis epidemic with 278,000 cases—three times the number in 2004 (Shanghai Daily, October 29, 2009). Pray for sufferers and that Christians will take a strong stand for biblical morality which will have an influence in general society.
17. “Please pray for us. As soon as the school holidays began, officials from the Minorities and Religious Affairs Bureau, the Propaganda Department and the 610 Office which bans Falungong, drove into the mountains. They prohibit students and children from hearing the gospel and ban outside evangelists.” (Letter to FEBC.)
18. The 200,000-strong Tu people of Qinghai and Gansu are one of the least evangelized minorities in China. Most are Lama Buddhists. Pray that Chinese Christians will be raised up and trained to reach them for Christ.
19. There are now 360 million web-users in China and more than 3 million China-based websites (China Daily, November 2, 2009). Pray Christians will have greater freedom to set up Christian web-sites and download teaching materials from overseas.
20. The Chinese magazine Liaowang has admitted that China runs thousands of secret “black jails” where inmates—usually poor rural people petitioning the government about injustice—are beaten or tortured (Daily Telegraph, November 27, 2009). Pray these places will be abolished and the petitioners given a proper hearing.
21. Pray for outreach to the huge foreign communities in Beijing, Shanghai and other cities. Pray especially for Muslims and North Koreans working or studying in China that they may hear the gospel.
22. OMF International workers worldwide report many wonderful opportunities to share Christ with Chinese students. Pray for patience, “stickability,” flexibility and lots of love!
23. About 100,000 desperately poor people in Hong Kong still live in tiny “cage homes” (partitioned flats of one room.) “Even a dog’s home is better than here,” complained one resident (South China Morning Post, October 5, 2009). Pray the Hong Kong government will ease the plight of these people.
24. The city of Yiwu in Zhejiang south of Shanghai hosts 200,000 Arab traders annually to buy low-cost goods. There are many Chinese Christians locally. Pray they will have a vision for serious outreach to these Muslim visitors.
25. Chinese construction companies are building offices for the Algerian and Yemeni foreign minsitries in Algiers and Sana’a, as well as a light-rail system in Mecca, the Muslim holy city (Daily Telegraph, August 28, 2009). Pray for any Christians in these companies with opportunities to witness.
26. Pray for a young Kazak couple who have come to faith in northwest China. Pray for other Muslim family members some of whom are very opposed.
27. 2010 is the centenary of the World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh started in 1910. Pray for greater Chinese participation in global mission in the 21st century and for all those Chinese cross-cultural missionaries already working in many countries.
28. An unprecedented open-air Christmas gathering was allowed in Ho Chi Min City in Vietnam on December 11. About 40,000 people turned up and 8,000 responded to “anointed” gospel preaching to receive Christ (Compass Direct, December 14, 2009). Praise God! Pray the time will come in the near future in China when the gospel can be proclaimed similarly and for revival to sweep the land.

Live with Writing Mistakes

Writing expert Peter Elbow uses an interesting approach to the physical process of putting words on paper that may work for you, too. In his book Writing with Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process 2nd ed., (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), 28, he says, “Gradually I have learned not to stop and cross out something I’ve just written when I change my mind. I just leave it there and write my new word or phrase on a new line.”
Elbow goes on to explain.

What is involved here is developing an increased tolerance for letting mistakes show. If you find yourself crumpling up your sheet of paper and throwing it away and starting with a new one every time you change your mind, you are really saying, I must destroy all evidence of mistakes.” Not quite so extreme is the person who scribbles over every mistake so avidly that not even the tail of the “y” is visible. Stopping to cross out mistakes doesn’t just waste psychic energy, it distracts you from full concentration on what you are trying to say.
What’s more, I’ve found that leaving mistakes uncrossed out somehow makes it easier for me to revise. When I cross out all my mistakes, I end up with a draft. And a draft is hard to revise because it is a complete whole. But when I leave my first choices there littering my page along with some second and third choices, I don’t have a draft, I just have a succession of ingredients. Often it is easier to whip that succession of ingredients into something usable than, as it were, to undo that completed draft and turn it into a better draft. It turns out I can just trundle through that pile of ingredients, slash out some words and sections, rearrange some bits, and end up with something quite usable. And quite often I discover in retrospect that my original “mistaken phrase” is really better than what I replaced it with: more lively or closer to what I end up saying.

Elbow has many valuable tips and insights. Find them in Writing with Power: Techniques for Mastering the writing Process.

中共元老要求平反劉曉波案

劉曉波把坐牢視為推動中國民主進程的一部分。

據香港《明報》報道，20名中共部級、局級離休元老近日聯名簽署致中共中央公開信，要求糾正對劉曉波案的「違法錯判」。

公開信批評說，北京市第一中級法院的一審判決在事實和說理兩方面都不能令人信服，是以司法名義損害中共的改革開放形像。

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溫家寶鼓勵講真話

無巧不成書。中國政府網周一（2月1日）全文刊出了總理溫家寶09年11月的一次講話全文，鼓勵人們「要講真話」。

溫家寶說，當前要營造一種包容和寬鬆的環境，使人們能夠獨立思考，敢講真話。

溫家寶說，有些真話，雖然領導不愛聽，但確有價值，因為它包含真理。領導者應有聽取逆耳之言的雅量，去除思維定勢，包容不同意見，擇其善者而從之。

溫家寶還舉了春秋時期齊威王頒布命令徵求批評意見的例子。並說，封建時代的政治家尚能如此，共產黨人應當做得更好。

分析人士指出，對比中國政府對劉曉波一案的處理，溫家寶總理的講話不免顯得「葉公好龍」。

劉曉波去年聖誕日被判刑後，香港示威者上街抗議。

王丹、嚴家祺等海外民運人士在農曆新年前發表《網路革命宣言》，呼籲通過網路對抗獨裁、爭取民主。

《宣言》說，中國政府拒絕在政治上「鬆綁」，重判《零八憲章》起草人之一劉曉波，「堵死了和解之路」，是「對改良的蔑視」和「對革命的召喚」。

中國著名異見人士劉曉波曾參與起草倡導政治改革的《零八憲章》。

文轉自BBC中文網，詳閱：

BBC 中文网 – 兩岸三地 – 王丹等發表「網路革命」宣言