Groundbreaking research based on a national database of over 200,000 churches shows that the overall United States population is growing faster than the church. The director of the American Church Research Project, Dave Olson, has worked to analyze church attendance, showing that it is virtually unchanged from fifteen years ago while our population has grown by fifty-two million people.What does this mean for you, your church, and the future of Christianity in North America? The American C...

Groundbreaking research based on a national database of over 200,000 churches shows that the overall United States population is growing faster than the church. The director of the American Church Research Project, Dave Olson, has worked to analyze church attendance, showing that it is virtually unchanged from fifteen years ago while our population has grown by fifty-two million people.What does this mean for you, your church, and the future of Christianity in North America? The American C...

God can use your unique gifts, passions and personality to help you become a better leader. While personality inventories can help you understand your temperament, the model designed by leading church planter David Olson is designed to form fruitful Christian leadership.Olson's model reveals how three factors—spirituality, chemistry and strategy—work together. The free online inventory that is a companion to this book takes just five minutes to complete, and the resulting report appears in...

Enjoy a great reading experience when you buy the Kindle edition of this book.In this revolutionary book, it is a comprehensive book designed to help unravel the risk factors and present the latest studies for Alzheimer's, and proven strategies to improve cognition and slow progression in those who have already been diagnosed. David Olson identifies the risk factors that anyone can control, and shatters the myth that Alzheimer’s is caused just by genes.

Max Prescotts new reality hurts like hell. The finality of his recent divorce has left him reeling. As he heads on an extended Caribbean vacation to escape his troubles, Max has no idea that unforeseen events are about to unfold that will forever reshape his world. After he unpacks and settles into the relaxed lifestyle of Grand Cayman, Max drinks in the islands beauty in an effort to forget his life back home. It is not long before he meets many new friends that include a gorgeous consult...

From the Spotlight to Real Life is a book to guide speakers to their message, and guide teams to become a cohesive unit through communication tips, listening skills, humor, and trust building. Whether you have a work team or a social event gathering - you'll have fun with the section of improvisation games and dare zone prompts for small or large groups. Imagine trying out creative ideas like writing with humor, or gentle encouragement to elaborate and exaggerate a story for effect. Great ...

Digitising Enterprise in an Information Age is an effort that focuses on a very vast cluster of Enterprises and their digitising technology involvement and take us through the road map of the implementation process in them, some of them being ICT, Banking, Stock Markets, Textile Industry & ICT, Social Media, Software Quality Assurance, Information Systems Security and Risk Management, Employee Resource Planning etc. It delves on increased instances of cyber spamming and the threat ...

This book provides an overview of data mining methods in the field of business. Business management faces challenges in serving customers in better ways, in identifying risks, and analyzing the impact of decisions. Of the three types of analytic tools, descriptive analytics focuses on what has happened and predictive analytics extends statistical and/or artificial intelligence to provide forecasting capability. Chapter 1 provides an overview of business management problems. Chapter 2 descr...

This book provides an overview of predictive methods demonstrated by open source software modeling with Rattle (R’) and WEKA. Knowledge management involves application of human knowledge (epistemology) with the technological advances of our current society (computer systems) and big data, both in terms of collecting data and in analyzing it. We see three types of analytic tools. Descriptive analytics focus on reports of what has happened. Predictive analytics extend statistical and/or arti...

This book presents data mining methods in the field of healthcare management in a practical way. Healthcare quality and disease prevention are essential in today’s world. Healthcare management faces a number of challenges, e.g. reducing patient growth through disease prevention, stopping or slowing disease progression, and reducing healthcare costs while improving quality of care. The book provides an overview of current healthcare management problems and highlights how analytics and knowl...

Although the importance of literacy is widely acknowledged in society and remains at the top of the political agenda, writing has been slow to establish a place in the cognitive sciences. Olson argues that to understand the cognitive implications of literacy, it is necessary to see reading and writing as providing access to and consciousness of aspects of language, such as phonemes, words and sentences, that are implicit and unconscious in speech. Reading and writing create a system of met...

This book is devoted to presenting models that have been applied in project management. There are a variety of project domains. We discuss engineering/construction projects, software development projects, massive projects to include governmental undertakings, and pharmaceutical product development. Chapter 1 gives an overview of projects, and discusses the difficulties in completing projects on time, within budget, and at designed functionality. While the successful completion of a project...