Sweet Success After Bitter Defeat

"God is truly using you to convey His word through your books. Your writing style is friendly, enjoyable, and encouraging. Thanks for breaking it down in a way that is easy to understand!"--Mrs. Macon Warren, Pawleys Island, South Carolina. (Practical Life)

Evelyn's riveting and impeccable-timed message exposes seeds of faith and deeds of darkness. Evelyn's teaching hits the nail on the head as she exposes Satan in every church. Don't think this applies to you? This is a must-read book for everyone, especially church leaders and prayer groups. Your life will never be the same if you heed the wisdom in this book. Evelyn shows that the church has nothing to prove and has no need to pretend. Evelyn leaves no hiding place for the enemy. She shines the light on Satan's territorial cracks and crevices. Many church wolves posing as sheep will have to change clothes! Dr. Drayton describes in poignant details how to become one who prays instead of one who preys. With simplicity, she shares the arena of truth using a cut melon and the heart of man. Come and share with Evelyn her "Watermelon Faith." Evangelist Evelyn Murray Drayton, an ordained minister and Christian author, earned a Masters Degree in Theology and a Doctorate Degree in Christian Counseling from Cathedral Bible College in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Evelyn is an excellent leader and motivational speaker who helps spearhead national and international ministries to help catapult them to the forefront. Her soothing, powerful, and prolific words have captured the hearts of many. Evelyn travels and ministers extensively proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ. She appears for live television and radio interviews. Evelyn is the author of four other published books. Her titles are I Had to Die Exposing Witchcraft in the Church, Silent Speaker, Feathered Wisdom, and Sweet Success After Bitter Defeat. Dr. Drayton, a community activist, is president and founder of Soul Winner Ministries, a non-profit 501(c)3 organization whose mission is to empower individuals and other organizations to help them reach their full potential.

Given that communication is the lifeblood of an organization, managerial leaders need to understand how to use communication strategies to build their teams to achieve organizational objectives. Studies repeatedly point to the impact communication skills have on the ability of managerial leaders to succeed or fail. Too often individuals move into managerial leadership roles without awareness of the need to improve their communication skills. These individuals may be subject matter experts whose technical skills allowed them to succeed as individual team members, but when placed in managerial leadership roles, they fail because they lacked the relationship building skills needed to foster teamwork. Therefore, this book provides the communication principles that are so critical for today's managerial leader. It builds a solid foundation while it guides readers in strategies to enhance their written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills. Most research has stated, and the author has found true in her own managerial leadership roles, a leader spends the majority of his or her day interacting with others. As managerial leaders, individuals face many challenging situations such as determining how to inspire a shared vision about goals and objectives, building trust within their unit, listening with an open mind, giving feedback, and encouraging collaboration, to name a few. The focus switches for the managerial leader from doing things to leading others. Therefore, this book is for anyone who currently serves as a managerial leader or for anyone who desires to manage and lead others. Most managerial communication books focus on the important written and oral communication skills. While the author believes these skills are critically important, she found in her role, as a managerial leader, she devoted the majority of her time to interpersonal communication. Leaders need to build teams and to maintain relationships with all stakeholders. The best way to make that happen is through skills such as listening, asking questions, and giving feedback. Therefore, this book includes an emphasis on interpersonal communication. As Chris M. Martin stated in a recent article, "The ability to communicate effectively may be the number one management quality." Therefore, this book will raise awareness relative to oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills so that individuals can become better managerial leaders.

Short stories from a master of the form, this collection scrapes away superficial assumptions and brings to life a multitude of characters whose concerns have dominated post-1994 South Africa but are in many respects timeless; in particular, they probe the limitations of middle class norms and blinkered identities and grapple with the diverse experiences of the many millions living on the margins of privileged ghettoes. Mixing satire with brutal realism, Kolski Horwitz dissects South African society with a keen and insightful eye.

This is the urban outlook on poetry telling stories from politics to poverty, from relationships to our environment. Real poems for real people. Some of these words are beautiful and some are harsh but they are all the realities of the world we live in, the things that we see and go through. Whether falling in love for the very first time or sitting in the welfare office, nobody does it like a sista.