Peter Steinke Knihy

Anxious times call for steady leadership. When tensions emerge in a congregation, its leaders cannot be as anxious as the people they serve. To remain effective, congregational leaders must control their own uneasiness. This takes self-awareness and confidence to manage relationships and influence behaviors. Knowing how to deal with anxiety and how to work throug complex challenges can lead a congregation to new insights, growth, and vitality. Anxious times hold not only the potential for loss but also for creation, important lernings, and changes that will strengthen the congregation. With this new book, internationally respected consultant Peter Steinke goes deeper into the requirements of effective congregational leadership. Born from the wisdom of Steinke's distinguished career, this new volume will both enlighten and embolden leaders. Steinke inspires courage in leaders to maintain the course, unearth secrets, resist sabotage, withstand fury, and overcome timidity or doubts. His insights, illustrations, and provocations will carry leaders through rough times, provide clarity during confusing times, and uplift them in joyous times.

We resist change less when we associate it with mission and fortify it with hope. So argues longtime congregational consultant Peter Steinke in his fourth book, A Door Set Open, as he explores the relationship between the challenges of change and our own responses to new ideas and experiences. Steinke builds on a seldom-explored principle posited by the late Rabbi Edwin Friedman: the 'hostility of the environment' is proportionate to the 'response of the organism.' The key, Steinke says, is not the number or strength of the stressors in the system--anxiety, poor conditions, deteriorating values--but the response of the individual or organization to 'what is there.' Drawing on Bowen system theory and a theology of hope, as well as his experience working with more than two hundred congregations, Steinke makes the case that the church has entered an era of great opportunity. Theologian and sociologist Ernst Troeltsch said the church had closed down the office of eschatology. Steinke reopens it and draws our attention to God's future, to a vision of hope for the people of God. The door is set open for exploration and new creation.

Uproar helps leaders understand the powerful impact that emotional processes have on the people they lead.

Dieses moderne Lehrbuch der Finite-Elemente-Methode (FEM) ermöglicht aufgrund der ausführlichen Darstellung und der rechnergestützten Vorgehensweise einen einfachen Einstieg in die Methode. Nach der Darstellung der mathematischen Grundlagen werden das Verfahren von Ritz, elastostatische Probleme und Potentialprobleme behandelt. Die beigefügte CD-ROM enthält zum besseren Verständnis der Methode und zur Vertiefung des Stoffes die Lernsoftware CALL_for_FEM. Die Lernsoftware bedient sich der Computeralgebra und beschreibt die Ableitungen des Buches in verallgemeinerter Form. Dies schließt ein mittels Computeralgebra geschriebenes FE-Programm ein. Das Buch ist sowohl für Studenten als auch für Ingenieure in der Praxis und für Physiker geeignet. NEU: Eine aktuelle, erweiterte und verbesserte Version der Lernsoftware CALL_for_FEM 2.0 ist im Internet unter: http://www.fh-muenster.de/fb3/steinke/hilfe/updates/updates.htm zu finden. P.S.: CALL_for_FEM steht für: Computer Aided Learning and Lessons for FEM