Hi everyone! Welcome to our Global Reach-out program on ‘Workplace Strategy’.

Now it is the end of the year, and Christmas and New Year are coming soon. It's the season of gift-giving. Are you planning on giving gifts to the people around you? After all, Christians are probably the group of people to who love to give gifts the most, because we have all received a precious gift from God and feel deeply the love and grace expressed by God’s "gift". Of course, we are talking about the topic of the workplace, so the question is: Have you prepared a special gift for your colleagues and friends in the workplace?

What kind of gifts would you prepare for your coworkers? Of course, the thing they need will be the best gifts given to them. Maybe you have already shopped the most suitable gifts for your coworkers if you know them well, or maybe you are still struggling to get them gifts that will show your appreciation and benefit your coworkers. In today's program, we will recommend a few books for our audience’s reference.

The first book is “The Juggling Act: Bring Balance to your Faith, Family, and Work”, written by Pat Gelsinger.

Nowadays, it seems like everyone has a never-ending list of tasks, errands, and social events... Plus the huge pressure of competition. All of these can be overwhelming, but Pat Gelsinger, with the wisdom of his Christian faith, was able to handle them effortlessly.

Pat Gelsinger graduated from college and began working at Intel at age 18. While at Intel, he earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at Santa Clara University, and a master's and doctor’s degree from Stanford University later. As a young man, Pat was always up at 6:30 a.m., his first class started at 8am, and after school, he worked in the afternoons and evenings at Intel. After he was off work, he would study until 1 or 2 a.m. In the university, he learned how to design chips, and applied his knowledge of designing chips at Intel at night. He joined Intel's microprocessor design team at age 20 and was promoted every year. He became the youngest vice president in the company's history at age 32. At age 40, he was nominated to be Intel's first chief technology officer. Pat Gelsinger holds several patents in very large scale integrated circuit design, computer architecture, and computer communications; and has published several books. Intel announced the appointment of Gelsinger as their new CEO on January 13, 2021, effective February 15, and he is celebrated for his accomplishments in his career for past three decades.

What’s even more impressive, Pat Gelsinger is a very responsible husband and father, and an elder in his local church. His life, marriage, children, and career are filled with God's grace.

In the book the “The Juggling Act: Bring Balance to your Faith, Family, and Work”, Pat Gelsinger  shares the secret of his success in his career and his creativity. He gives us six special principles for mastering the key things in life. He tells us about his approach to "balance" in his faith, life, and work from six angles, interlaced with personal examples. At the end of each chapter, there are questions that help readers reflect on their lives and work. At the end of the book, the author provides the answer to these questions based to his own life experience.

In his book, Pat Gelsinger says, "My order is religion first, family second, work third." His six principles have helped many Christians around the world rethink the relationship between faith, work and family.

If you have a colleague or friend who is struggling with their time management skills and short of energy, this book can help a lot. The book is full of concrete, actionable advice that not only gives you ideas, but also gives you directions for follow up. Even non-Christians can benefit from this book.

The next book I recommend to you is “Win: at the crucial moment” by Roger I. Kung, a Christian entrepreneur who was born in Shanghai and grew up in Taiwan. He previously served as Senior Vice President of Motorola Corporation, President of Personal Communications Asia Pacific, and as a manager of Intel. He is known as the "Father of IRAM" and the "Father of Linux Smartphone". He not only has more than 30 years of practical and management experience, but also has nine global patents, has published dozens of papers in international science and technology journals, and won many awards. In 2003, Kong Yi founded Shanghai Yiren Information Technology Co., Ltd. in Shanghai. In 2013, he founded Cainisi Enterprise Management Consulting Co., Ltd. and E28 Leadership Academy to provide training and consulting services for workplace leaders.

The name Roger I. Kung may not be familiar to the audience, but he is a legend within Motorola and throughout China's communications industry. Motorola reached its peak during Kong's tenure. At that time the company was losing ground in the global market for mobile phones, but continued to do well in Asia, where it was number one in market share in many countries. Their main success lies in product innovation, and their successful products are almost all developed locally in Asia by the team led by Roger I. Kung. People familiar with the situation at the time often argue that the company would have been different if Mr. Kung had led Motorola's global handset division at the time.

Roger Kung always stresses innovation in management. Every time he discusses work with people, the most common question he asks is, "Do you have any new ideas?" "Is there a different way?" For him, innovation goes beyond products and permeates all aspects of work. He gets along with his employees. What impresses people most is that he would like to listen to suggestions from his employees, and respects them a lot. When he is talking to his employees, he listens carefully and never interrupts, regardless of the seniority or position of the other side. "Everyone has a good point of view," he said. "Be respectful." He respects everyone deep down in his heart, cares for and loves his employees wholeheartedly, and makes his team a warm community. To this day, it is not uncommon for people who have worked at Motorola to say, "I would work for Mr. Kung, even if I am not getting paid!"

In his book “Win: at the crucial moment”,  which is based on more than 30 years of diverse workplace experience, Roger defines the "five forces of turnaround" practices, to help readers effectively solve the problems they may encounter in their lives or careers, so they can turn the situation around.

The author believes that what youth who feel lost these days, or professional managers and entrepreneurs who are at a bottleneck need most at the "critical moment" in their lives is the ability to turn the situation around, which he calls "torque". He divides this “torque” into insight, charisma, power, capability, and virtue.

Insight refers to a person's ability to anticipate the future and set strategic direction. Charisma is the ability to motivate, and refers to a person's ability to motivate themselves and inspire and influence others. Power is the executive ability that a person has to put forward a specific plan, implement the plan, and achieve satisfactory results. Capability is the ability to make decisions, specifically a person's ability to make decisions and bear the consequences of their decisions. Virtue is a person's ability to be morally inspired, such as upholding integrity in business, respecting others, and so on.

If you have a colleague or friend who is at a corner of his life, who needs to decide where to go, or who needs to turn things around, this book could help them out.

The last book we are about to recommend here is the book “The Effective Executive in Action” written by Peter Drucker. In our previous program, his life story was introduced to our audience, so I won't go into it again today.

Peter’s writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of the modern business corporation. His position as a leading expert was established in management mostly because of his book “The Effective Executive”. After 40 years, he extracted the major concept from this book, renewed it, and re-wrote so it is up to date for today’s managers and professionals in their daily practice. This is the book we are introducing to you today: “The Effective Executive in Action”

This book is about deciding what is the right thing to do, and how to do things well. Not only does it provide a great tool for self-development for managers, it is also suitable for anyone who wants to do proper self-management.

This is Drucker's last book. From The Effective Executive (1966) to The Effective Executive in Action (2006), Drucker's books are classics of management, according to The Economist.

If your colleagues or friends are interested in business management or self-management, he or she will enjoy this book and benefit from it.

OK. Friends, these are our recommended books for you to give friends in the workplace. The authors of all these books have one thing in common: they are not only deeply rooted in their faith, but they have also achieved excellence in their professions. And they not only share their knowledge or skills in their careers, but also their life stories. May God bless people's lives and careers with these small gifts from us.