Background
Lucas, James Raymond was born on March 9, 1950 in St. Louis. Son of James Earl and Anna LaVerne (Ryan) Lucas.
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1001 Ways to Connect with Your Kids
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1001 Ways to Connect with Your Kids is a book for Christian parents who want to "connect" with their kids on a deeper level but lack specific ideas for doing so. The primary purpose of the book is to establish parents as the source of understanding and to help their kids through intentional and consistent actions. It contains creative and insightful ideas for parents to build up and reinforce relationships.
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Balance of Power: Fueling Employee Power without Relinquishing Your Own
(Power. This groundbreaking book takes you far beyond "emp...)
Power. This groundbreaking book takes you far beyond "empowerment" into the much more effective world of powersharing. It takes a fresh look at how power can be used as a means of adding and creating value. It challenges you to ask yourself and others in your organization some crucial questions: Are we using power as a tool or as a goal? Are we using power to liberate or to dominate? Do we understand the competitive advantage of having a balance of power? This mind-opening book will show you how to share power, who to share it with, how much to give away, and how much to keep.
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Proactive Parenting
(For every doubt about parenting, the Bible has a clear an...)
For every doubt about parenting, the Bible has a clear answer. In chapter after chapter of sound practical advice, Lucas shows parents how to defeat the doomsayers and help their children experience every blessing God has for them throughout their growing years. "One of the finest books on parenting available".--John Nieder, author of The Art of Family Living.
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Noah: Voyage to a New Earth
(Surrounded by a society of corruption and depravity, besi...)
Surrounded by a society of corruption and depravity, besieged by a culture infested with venereal disease and immorality that is spiraling into gross depravity, one man stands faithful to God-Noah. This book chronicles the powerful saga of God's judgment and Noah's stalwart obedience. Fashioned in a setting of the future, Lucas guides you through the doubt and frustration of a seemingly impossible task-to stand against the bitter anger and murderous violence of an opposing culture. He tells of one man's crushing trials and painful exhaustion, and his persistent faith and dependence upon a sovereign God.
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Walking Through the Fire: Finding the Purpose of Pain in the Christian Life
(Building on the image of God's refining and purifying fir...)
Building on the image of God's refining and purifying fire, this book explains God's purpose for pain in a Christian's life. It lists 10 purposes of discipline and seven purposes of punishment, explains the crucial differnece between discipline and punishment, and identifies the right response to discipline and the right response to punishment.
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Fatal Illusions: Shredding a Dozen Unrealities That Can Keep Your Organization From Success
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Why do our best efforts at change always seem to stall? What stops us from moving forward? As individuals and as organizations, we lay the blame on a lack of time, information, money, or motivation. However, our own illusions are usually the true culprit. As this insightful book will quickly convince you, getting real is the only way to really get ahead. We labor under fatal illusions when we base our behavior on what we wish to be true about our business, or about the marketplace, rather than on what is actually true. We treat our symptoms while core problems fester unchecked. The syndrome is all too common, but there is a remedy. Fatal Illusions shows how to dig out the truth and free yourself for positive action. This book analyzes 12 major illusions with significant power to harm you and your organization. The illusions involve too-comfortable beliefs about mission statements, teamwork, incentives, and other big issues that soak up time and resources--and they may startle you by hitting so close to home. For example: "Of course our people understand what's important" "Everybody knows what quality is" "We don't need passion if we have a good plan" "Just give people a chance and they'll work together" Throughout the book, self-tests help you pinpoint which fatal illusions are lurking in your organization. Then you'll learn proven, specific techniques for correcting the misperceptions, one by one. You'll discover how to uproot the fallacies that prevent successful implementation of benchmarking, employee empowerment, and other management initiatives. Deeper and more far-reaching than virtually any other management book, Fatal Illusions is your guide to becoming "unstuck" in business and in life. By helping you squarely face "the things you know that just ain't so," it will propel you from your current plateau to brand-new heights of success.
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1001 Ways to Connect with Your Kids
(With great accessability and wisdom, James Lucas offers c...)
With great accessability and wisdom, James Lucas offers creative ideas for touching your kids' hearts and connecting with their souls. As a father of four grown children, Lucas understands the range of approaches needed for different age groups, different seasons in life, and different personalities. Discover words, actions, people, and even problems that can create connections between you and your kids. With these paragraph-long suggestions you can create life-long memories with the people you love most.
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The Passionate Organization: Igniting the Fire of Employee Commitment THE PASSIONATE ORGANIZATION: IGNITING THE FIRE OF EMPLOYEE COMMITMENT By Lucas, James R. ( Author )Jun-01-1999 Paperback
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The Passion Principle: Designing a Passionate Organization (Passionate Lives and Leaders Series Book 1)
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Do you want an organization with an unmistakable identity, a vision so compelling that people invest themselves in the cause and compete for a chance to join you? This booklet shows you how to fashion a powerful charter for success. A great organization pursues a great vision -- a vision, forged by passionate, committed people in the organization. A passionately shared vision draws on all of their ideas, personalities, and passions to build a unique organization, one whose success can be admired but not replicated. World-class leaders don't stop there: they design cultures that draw out and align the individual passions of all their people with the passions of the organization. When a passionate organization™ meets an organization whose people are merely engaged, the passionate organization™ will triumph every time. This step-by-step guide will show you how to design 7 factors in your organization around a powerful core, clear 5 obstacles to building a passionate organization, and build 10 key elements into your organization to ignite and sustain its passion.
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High-Performance Ethics: 10 Timeless Principles for Next-Generation Leadership
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Do you have to lower your ethical standards in order to succeed at your job? High-Performance Ethics authors Wes Cantrell and James Lucas say that the answer is no. The authors outline ways to make ethical decisions (based on the Ten Commandments) that lead to highly successful business practices. High-Performance Ethics includes tips on how to lead a team with integrity, practical tools for resisting the pressure to compromise workplace standards, and encouragement for workers who want to see strong businesses―and strong values―thrive. 10 Principles: • First Things Only (priorities) • Ditch the Distractions • Align with Reality (never claim support for a bad cause) • Find Symmetry • Respect the Wise • Protecct the Souls • Commit to the Relationships • Spread the Wealth • Speak the Truth • Limit Your Desires
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The Passionate Organization: Igniting the Fire of Employee Commitment
("Everyone's heard about companies that seem to have every...)
"Everyone's heard about companies that seem to have everything--great products, enormous capital resources, reputation, skilled employees, ""advanced"" planning--and they still fail. Why? Perhaps they lack passion. Emphasizing ""big vision,"" mutual trust, and deeply held core values, Jim Lucas demonstrates how to win and keep the competitive edge by thinking with the heart as well as the head. He shows how a committed, passionate workforce can: * make shifts and leaps that strategic planning alone cannot envision * fight to achieve the organization's mission * bring continuous improvement, creativity, and innovation to their work * enjoy a more fulfilling life, personally and professionally, by committing to something greater than themselves."
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(The Passionate Organization: Igniting the Fire of Employee Commitment ) Author: James R Lucas Sep-2008
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High-Performance Ethics: 10 Timeless Principles for Next-Generation Leadership by Wes Cantrell, James R. Lucas (2007) Hardcover
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1001 Ways to Connect with Your Kids (Arabic Language Edition)
(1001 Ways to Connect with Your Kids is a book for Christi...)
1001 Ways to Connect with Your Kids is a book for Christian parents who want to "connect" with their kids on a deeper level but lack specific ideas for doing so. The primary purpose of the book is to establish parents as the source of understanding and to help their kids through intentional and consistent actions. It contains creative and insightful ideas for parents to build up and reinforce relationships. Customer Reviews 5 out of 5 Stars. Reviewed by A Customer. Best book I have read about getting to know your children. It has lots of ideas on how to communicate to your children and how to have fun with your kids while raising them at the same time 5 out of 5 Stars. Reviewed by A Customer. An amazing buffet of ideas for parents! By "1001 Ways to Connect With Your Kids," is one of the easiest, most enjoyable "how to" books I've read in a long time. James Lucas' approach to connecting with children jumps way beyond psychology and lands right in the practical. The more I read, the more I realized it was about spending time, talking, and getting creative. With this book, you'll never run out of ideas on how to make your children feel special. Long after reading it, you will want to keep it around as a reference, pull it out from time to time, and use these ideas. This book is a must for any parent who wants to be and stay close to his or her children.
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The Paradox Principle: How Passionate Leaders Merge Competing Ideas (Passionate Lives and Leaders Book 4)
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Competing ideas are everywhere. Even the smart people on your team hold passionate differences of opinion. This handbook provides a breakthrough approach to merging those competing ideas to generate value and produce commitment. Leaders wonder; Can I be creative and disciplined? Zealous and open-minded? Focused and able to listen for input? Seeing both sides gives leaders a chance to carve out unique contributions and produce results their competitors can't imitate. Find out how to lead passionate mergers of competing ideas with this innovative, practical guide.
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The Parenting of Champions: Raising Godly Children in an Evil Age
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The Thinking Principle: Using Passion to Innovate and Create Value (Passionate Lives & Leaders Book 3)
(Why do smart people so often collaborate to produce stupi...)
Why do smart people so often collaborate to produce stupid decisions and plans? Why do we so often seem to end up with "lowest common denominator" ideas and solutions? Do we have structural and process barriers to innovation? Even though we have good intentions, are we inadvertently destroying value? Discover how to build 10 key elements into your organization to make it a thinking organization(TM) -- an organization that creates more value collectively than smart people could create alone. Learn how to harness this intelligence with 10 essentials for generating an innovative culture. And find out how to get everyone passionately focused on making things better and creating new value -- instead of just "doing a job."
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The Attraction Principle: Finding, Keeping, and Teaming Passionate People (Passionate Lives and Leaders Book 2)
(Leaders soon learn that it's impossible to inject motivat...)
Leaders soon learn that it's impossible to inject motivation into people who lack passion. So how do you find and keep the truly passionate, committed, pure-performance™ people who will take your organization or team to new levels of success? If you're tired of stunts and fads and interviewing gimmicks, this indispensable guide will show you how to get down to what really matters. The handbook provides 5 major sources of clues to help you identify passionate people, an elegantly simple way to determine whether this passionate person is right for your organization, 10 keys to keeping the people you've worked so hard to find, and 7 Keys to Effective Teams™.
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1001 Ways To Connect with Your Kids
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Hardcover Great Condition
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- Fatal Illusions Shredding a Dozen Unrealities That Can Keep Your Organization From Success
- 1001 Ways to Connect with Your Kids by James R. Lucas (Foreword by Cheri Keaggy) (2003-05-01)
- Proactive Parenting by James R. Lucas (1993-05-04) (Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)
- Fatal Illusions: Shredding a Dozen Unrealities That Can Keep Your Organization from Success (People -- and their companies -- can get stuck in old pat...)
- The Passion Principle: Designing a Passionate Organization (Do you want an organization with an unmistakable identity...)
James Raymond Lucas
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James Raymond Lucas, Author, business executive, management consultant. Registered profile engineer, Missouri, Kansas. President Mother and Unborn Baby Care, Overland Park, 1990; elder Living Faith Church, 1985-1996. Member ASTD, International Platform Association, Society Manufacturing Engineers (senior), American Association Christian Counselors (charter), American Management Association.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Engineering Management, University Missouri, 1972. Postgraduate in Industrial Engineering, University Missouri, 1978. Postgraduate in Theology, Regent College, Vancouver, 1999.
Degree in Engineering Management, Missouri University, Rolla, 2007.
Career
Product analyst, The Lee Company, Westwood, Kansas, 1971-1973; manager planning, Black & Veatch, Kansas City, Missoury, 1973-1979; director construction, Hallmark Cards, Kansas City, Missoury, 1979-1981; project manager, The Pritchard Corporation, Kansas City, Missoury, 1981-1983; freelance author, Overland Park, Kansas, since 1983; general manager, president, chief Executive officer, EPIC Manufacturing, Kansas City, Missoury, 1984-1986; president, Luman Cons., Prairie Village, Kansas, since 1983; operations manager, PSM, Inc., 1987-1991; vice president, Human Computer Interaction, Inc., 1991-1993; executive director, Relationship Development Center, since 1992. Member seminar faculty American Management Association, since 1994. Publisher, president Quintessential Books, since 1993.
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The Thinking Principle: Using Passion to Innovate and Create Value (Passionate Lives & Leaders Book 3)
(Why do smart people so often collaborate to produce stupi...)
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The Passion Principle: Designing a Passionate Organization (Passionate Lives and Leaders Series Book 1)
(Do you want an organization with an unmistakable identity...)
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The Passion Principle: Designing a Passionate Organization
(Do you want an organization with an unmistakable identity...)
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Fatal Illusions: Shredding a Dozen Unrealities That Can Keep Your Organization From Success
(Why do our best efforts at change always seem to stall? W...)
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Noah: Voyage to a New Earth
(Surrounded by a society of corruption and depravity, besi...)
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The Passionate Organization: Igniting the Fire of Employee Commitment
("Everyone's heard about companies that seem to have every...)
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High-Performance Ethics: 10 Timeless Principles for Next-Generation Leadership
(Do you have to lower your ethical standards in order to s...)
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1001 Ways to Connect with Your Kids
(1001 Ways to Connect with Your Kids is a book for Christi...)
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1001 Ways to Connect with Your Kids (Arabic Language Edition)
(1001 Ways to Connect with Your Kids is a book for Christi...)
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1001 Ways to Connect with Your Kids
(With great accessability and wisdom, James Lucas offers c...)
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Walking Through the Fire: Finding the Purpose of Pain in the Christian Life
(Building on the image of God's refining and purifying fir...)
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The Attraction Principle: Finding, Keeping, and Teaming Passionate People (Passionate Lives and Leaders Book 2)
(Leaders soon learn that it's impossible to inject motivat...)
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Fatal Illusions: Shredding a Dozen Unrealities That Can Keep Your Organization from Success
(People -- and their companies -- can get stuck in old pat...)
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Proactive Parenting
(For every doubt about parenting, the Bible has a clear an...)
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The Paradox Principle: How Passionate Leaders Merge Competing Ideas (Passionate Lives and Leaders Book 4)
(Competing ideas are everywhere. Even the smart people on ...)
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1001 Ways To Connect with Your Kids
(Hardcover Great Condition)
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Proactive Parenting by James R. Lucas (1993-05-04)
(Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)
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Balance of Power: Fueling Employee Power without Relinquishing Your Own
(Power. This groundbreaking book takes you far beyond "emp...)
- Fatal Illusions Shredding a Dozen Unrealities That Can Keep Your Organization From Success
- 1001 Ways to Connect with Your Kids by James R. Lucas (Foreword by Cheri Keaggy) (2003-05-01)
- The Passionate Organization: Igniting the Fire of Employee Commitment THE PASSIONATE ORGANIZATION: IGNITING THE FIRE OF EMPLOYEE COMMITMENT By Lucas, James R. ( Author )Jun-01-1999 Paperback
- (The Passionate Organization: Igniting the Fire of Employee Commitment ) Author: James R Lucas Sep-2008
- High-Performance Ethics: 10 Timeless Principles for Next-Generation Leadership by Wes Cantrell, James R. Lucas (2007) Hardcover
- The Parenting of Champions: Raising Godly Children in an Evil Age
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The Thinking Principle: Using Passion to Innovate and Create Value (Passionate Lives & Leaders Book 3)
Membership
Member American Society for Training and Development, Society Manufacturing Engineers (senior ), American Society for Engineering Management, Academy Engineering Management (past president), American Association Christian Counselors (charter), American Management Association, National Society Professional Engineers, Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity.
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Avocations: piano, writing music, reading, traveling E-mail: [email protected].
Connections
Married Pamela Kay Petersen, June 10, 1972. Children: Laura Christine, Peter Barrett, David Christopher, Bethany Gayle.
