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The 2,000 Percent Nation explains how to understand and increase by twenty times national fruitfulness for God from fifteen perspectives: 1. How God measures a nation's fruitfulness 2. What governments should and should not do 3. What churches should concentrate on 4. What actions Christian ministries should emphasize 5. What Christian nonprofit organizations should accomplish 6. What schools, colleges, and universities should engage in 7. What voluntary associations should achieve 8. What purposes foundations should seek to fulfill 9. What social enterprises should work on 10. What for-profit companies should seek to do in serving Godly purposes 11. What activities independent professionals who work with organizations should make their top priority 12. What professional tutors of Godly breakthrough methods should teach 13. What a nation's visitors should do 14. Practices citizens and long-term residents can use to contribute more 15. What foundational tasks individual Christians should perform May God bless you as you read this book and draw on it to do His will!

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In 2006, Christians around the world were invited to submit their best ideas and most helpful experiences for helping lead more lost people to receive Salvation from Jesus Christ, presented as Christmas gifts to God. Ways You Can Witness describes six of the best ideas and activities, drawn from lands as far away as the Philippines and Rwanda but just as relevant for your home town. As you read and act on what you learn, you'll find your spirit uplifted by exciting ways to follow Jesus as a witness that you've probably never thought of doing before. Praise God for these wonderful opportunities!

"And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, 'All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.'" (Matthew 28:18-20, NKJV) Disciple focuses on teaching believers to act on Jesus' commands. By applying the book's 60 lessons, believers will gain knowledge and experiences that will greatly increase their awareness of and responsiveness to God, His touches on their lives, and His handiwork around them. Hopefully, such learning and experiences will lead to a lifetime of drawing closer to God and advancing and improving His Kingdom in ever more fruitful ways.

poetry of faith and doubt in an ordinary and incomprehensible life.

Help Wanted points to the one million unfilled jobs worldwide for helping others learn how to make breakthroughs in the most important tasks, and provides a way to speed training and hiring for these positions. When such breakthroughs are made, hundreds of millions more great jobs will be created. Advancing the lessons in this book can be seen as one of the greatest opportunities God has given us. Help Wanted's purposes are - to encourage you to teach how to create exponential fruitfulness (accomplishing more of what God intends) and - to inform you how to do so in highly effective ways. Teaching practical ways to be exponentially fruitful for the Lord can provide both eternal and day-to-day rewards that will further uplift any Christian's heart and soul. The eternal rewards are alluded to in Revelation 22:12 where Jesus promises to reward those who have done His work when He returns. If ordinary fruitfulness will earn rewards, just think about how much more exponential fruitfulness will be recognized by Him when each is rewarded according to the work that was done. If it is His will, the day-to-day rewards of such teaching can include experiencing more peacefulness, love, satisfaction, contribution, significance, confidence, inspiration, mastery, kindness, humility, enjoyment, and friendship. Help Wanted assists you to select a fruitfulness opportunity to serve, covering eleven major possibilities: witnessing, congregational ministries, Christian nonprofit organizations, universities, secular teaching, youth organizations, foundations, social enterprises, governments, for-profit companies, and independent professionals who advise organizations. For those who want to turn such Godly work into a part- or full-time profession, there's plenty of practical advice.

After thinking about the possible contents for the book over several weeks, Donald Mitchell was surprised to be awakened at 1:30 a.m. on May 19, 2009, by a voice that dictated to him in great detail what should be in this book. This dictation continued for many hours and finally paused for him to begin asking clarifying questions, which were then answered. The instruction lasted over six hours. In the Introduction, Mitchell notes, "From that experience, I believe that by writing this book I am merely serving as a fleshly vehicle for a message from the Holy Spirit that is intended for all people on Earth. I pray that I have been faithful and accurate in sharing with you what I was directed to write." 2,000 Percent Living presents fourteen Godly lessons that you can apply to accomplish at least 20 times more in every aspect of your life, while using less time, effort, and resources. As a result, you will focus more on what's important, spend a lot less effort on what isn't important, and achieve more satisfaction from your efforts: 1. Accept Salvation. 2. Cleanse your mind. 3. Pick better objectives. 4. Increase focus on your objectives. 5. Gain knowledge faster. 6. Obtain more helpful knowledge. 7. Create a 2,000 percent solution. (Achieve 20 times more with the same or less time, money, and effort.) 8. Teach others to make similar breakthroughs. 9. Create a new 2,000 percent solution annually. 10. Improve your breakthrough solutions. 11. Link seven complementary 2,000 percent solutions to add enormous benefits. 12. Increase benefits for those who cannot help you. 13. Draw 20 times closer to others. 14. Check your conduct to please God. 2,000 Percent Living is the tenth book published for the 400 Year Project (www.fastforward400.com and Adventures of an Optimist) designed to accelerate human progress by 20 times from 2015-2035.

Business Basics provides would-be entrepreneurs who are planning to start up a first business, experienced entrepreneurs who are preparing to start another business, and leaders of existing businesses with wisdom and directions to accomplish 8,000 times more. The book's 52 lessons are based on the most extensive investigations ever conducted into making business breakthroughs with existing resources, and the lessons show how to: - prepare for leading an extraordinarily successful enterprise - expand a market's size by twenty times and profitably gain market share while doing so - cut a company's costs (and those of its stakeholders) for providing and using an offering by 96 percent - decrease the investments needed to provide and use an offering by 96 percent As a result, revenues grow by much more than twenty times. Profits expand by more than 400 times as revenues soar, while unit costs plunge. Free cash flow is much more than 8,000 times larger because growth requires little or no new investment. The value of a business also expands by more than 8,000 times. Other stakeholders receive exponential benefit gains as well. In contrast to its title, Business Basics is also an advanced book that assumes knowledge of and facility in several of the books developed by the 400 Year Project (founded in 1995 to demonstrate how to accomplish improvements in less than one year that normally take at least twenty years to achieve: see at www.fastforward400.com) including The 2,000 Percent Solution, The 2,000 Percent Solution Workbook, The Irresistible Growth Enterprise, The Ultimate Competitive Advantage, The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution, and 2,000 Percent Living. Your time and attention in reading and applying those books will be well repaid by upgrading your knowledge, skills, and resources for breakthroughs you want to accomplish. Business Basics is designed to be read and applied over at least a year. The book's messages are captured in fifty-two lessons presented in the four parts that correspond to the four breakthrough questions listed earlier. Each lesson contains assignments for you. Some of the assignments can be done in a few hours. Completing other assignments may well extend over several months. Think of Business Basics as a book that combines theory, advanced practices, and directions for applied work. Each lesson has been tested by members of The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind, a group of entrepreneurs around the world that was founded in 2006. I serve as the research coordinator for the group, and I authored all of the lessons developed so far (exceeding 290 and growing). The fifty-two lessons you find in the book are the ones that were most valuable to the study group's members in recent years for answering the four breakthrough questions. Many people incorrectly doubt that businesses can make such exponential gains. I invite such skeptics to read and apply the book with a critical eye to see if what is shared makes sense. Business Basics is also intended to help business leaders who either copy or just slightly improve on the new business models that are created by the book's readers. As a result of such efforts, my goal is to encourage and to assist a million entrepreneurs to succeed in establishing 2,000 percent cubed businesses for the first time. From the resulting business models, I estimate that over a hundred million vastly improved businesses will eventually emerge. The offerings and benefits for stakeholders from such new business models will improve global prosperity in an unprecedented way, one of the goals of the 400 Year Project (to help everyone on Earth improve twenty times faster than normal from 2015 through 2035). I thank you for helping humanity by reading the book and applying its lessons. You will probably never know all of the good that you are doing.

The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution is the first book to show you how to add 20 times more revenues at 96 percent less cost from the same time and effort. This book builds on the principles in the world-wide best seller, The 2,000 Percent Solution. Examples alternate between explaining how for-profit companies can grow profits by 400 times and showing how nonprofit organizations can serve 400 times as many beneficiaries. 'The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution is a brilliant distillation of essential management principles that everyone, and I mean everyone, can use to drive dramatic acceleration of performance. It's packed with great stories that make the principles easy to understand, embrace, and apply. Whether you're a leader in a big, small, for-profit, or not-for-profit organization, you need this book.' Rosabeth Moss Kanter - Harvard Business School, best-selling author of Confidence: How Winning Streaks & Losing Streaks Begin & End

In 1995, Donald Mitchell began an audacious task: Demonstrate ways for the whole world to make 400 years worth of normal improvements in the 20 years between 2015 and 2035, a task he calls the 400 Year Project. The results could be as dramatic for humanity as going from sending smoke signals to watching videos sent via cell phones and email had been for extending communications. With guidance from management guru Peter Drucker, direction from clients, and assistance from talented colleagues and students, the project has identified many breakthrough solutions which meet the project's goals. Mitchell describes the roots of his practical optimism, identifies how he organized the project, shares what he learned from pursuing this investigation into untapped breakthroughs, and spells out the focus needed to accelerate global improvements by 20 times from 2015 to 2035. Mitchell also summarizes the books he's coauthored on creating accelerated breakthroughs as part of the 400 Year Project. This is the 2012 revised edition of the 2007 book.

Learn how to free your organization from bad habits that obstruct progress while adopting helpful ones: The payoff is accomplishing 20 times as much with the same time and resources. In this portable version of the 1999 original, you'll find just the latest and most essential examples, lists, and questions to create your 2,000 percent solutions while you are away from the office.

A specially-priced three volume paperback set of Donald Mitchell's acclaimed study of Mahler's music.

Using the methods described in Breakthrough Learning, you should be able to learn and successfully apply what you learn at least 20 times faster and with 1/21 or less time, effort, and resources than others use, even while following what they consider to be the most effective learning and application methods. There's also a second meaning of breakthrough learning: Make breakthroughs, which are ways of being vastly more effective in applying your own and others' time, money, effort, and other resources to accomplish something important. One possible way to do so is by learning and effectively applying some of the breakthrough processes developed by The 400 Year Project. These processes include 2,000 percent solutions (ways of accomplishing 20 times more results with the same or less time, money, and effort), complementary 2,000 percent solutions (2,000 percent solutions whose improvements multiply the effectiveness of other 2,000 percent solutions by the same degree), and excellent solutions (making one set of changes that have an impact equal to 10 complementary 2,000 percent solutions). The book 2,000 Percent Living also discusses how to make improvements by using 2,000 percent solutions, as well as with complementary 2,000 percent solutions. In Breakthrough Learning, you'll study different learning methods that will multiply the effectiveness for making breakthroughs of what is contained in 2,000 Percent Living by at least another 20 times. What are the key ideas in Breakthrough Learning? A good Broadway musical begins with an overture that gives an entertaining sense of the show. The opening scene grabs our attention and makes us interested in the characters and in finding out what will happen to them. Let me now try to do something similar in delivering this book's key ideas. The setting is of our world being flooded with new information at an astonishing rate, one that is so rapid that many people describe necessary learning as trying to drink out of a fire hose. Since we cannot begin to deal with all the new information and knowledge that is available, how can we make better use of relevant portions? In this regard, I have a burning desire: I want you to fulfill more of your God-given potential while applying the spiritual gifts and abilities that He has given you. I hope you will feel more of His heart for doing so as you read this book. Here is a preview. We start in Part One: Breakthrough Learning Fundamentals by considering six fundamentals of breakthrough learning, fundamentals that are too often ignored. There is perhaps no more valuable skill for gaining personal benefits and serving others than becoming adept at learning new disciplines on one's own. In Part Two: Teach Yourself, we focus on the most important aspects of this form of learning. The material is divided into nine lessons that describe how to be highly effective in self-directed learning. In Part Three: Teach Others, we look at instructing others so they quickly become highly effective breakthrough learners.

Advanced Business for Social Benefits: Profit from Serving Social Needs Well is different from many other business books by primarily paying attention to what a company can do to solve major social problems for the benefit of all stakeholders. The words of Jesus in Matthew 5:14-15 (NKJV) capture this book's perspective very well. To paraphrase His wisdom into the context of this book's topic: If you set a good example in serving important social needs, your example will increasingly become the way that all those who are affected by and observe what you do will think and act. Advanced Business for Social Benefits should be applied in conjunction with the five complementary breakthroughs (accelerating market growth by 20 times, reducing costs of an offering by at least 96 percent, eliminating 96 percent of investment for supplying offerings, increasing stakeholder value by 20 times, and expanding useful innovation by 20 times) discussed in Business Basics, Advanced Business, and Advanced Business for Innovation to expand stakeholder benefits by over 64 million times.

Advanced Business for Innovation: Stimulate Competitor Innovation and Copying is different from many other innovation books in primarily paying attention to what a company can do to shape an industry to be more innovative, to make customers more effective, and to stimulate increased and faster innovation and copying by competitors, rather than on just what innovation an organization should do. A paraphrase of Jesus' words in Matthew 5:14-15 (NKJV) captures this book's perspective very well: If you set a good example in innovating, that example will become the way those in your industry think and act. Advanced Business for Innovation is intended to be applied in conjunction with the four complementary breakthroughs (gaining market share while accelerating market growth by 20 times, reducing stakeholder and company costs of an offering by at least 96 percent, eliminating 96 percent of investment needed to supply offerings, and increasing value for all stakeholders by 20 times) discussed in Business Basics and Advanced Business to expand stakeholder benefits by over 3.2 million times.

Investigation Centers describes how to create and operate a new kind of place outside the walls of a church where people can comfortably seek helpful answers to their most important questions. It's a Christian book about important ways to share the love of Jesus Christ to those who need help, especially those who are hurting. Hopefully, every community will soon establish and operate such a center, where evangelism and discipleship will flourish to expand and improve God's Kingdom. Investigation Centers describes how volunteers and staff should serve at investigation centers to: - Supply a judgment-free environment for spiritual discussions. - Answer questions about God for believers and seekers. - Help believers to deepen their relationships with God. - Assist believers to find their callings from God. - Encourage good works by creating awareness of appealing opportunities to serve others. - Teach believers how to be more fruitful for God. - Provide training for making breakthroughs that expand and improve God's Kingdom. - Provide Godly answers to common problems. - Be a safe and relaxing place to spend time with friends and family. Investigation Centers complements two earlier books that Donald Mitchell coauthored about evangelism: Witnessing Made Easy and Ways You Can Witness. Applying those books has enabled millions of people to hear the Gospel message and many to accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.

At God's direction in 1995, The 400 Year Project set out to accomplish two audacious goals: 1. Identify ways that the rate of all forms of human improvement could be accelerated by 20 times. 2. Demonstrate the most practical ways to accelerate improvements. Through following God's directions and receiving His help, these goals were greatly surpassed in 2015. Your Breakthroughs contains the key 400 Year Project lessons for individuals, companies, nonprofits, governments, and nations to create and enjoy improvements that would otherwise take more than 400 years to accomplish. By applying Your Breakthroughs, you can benefit yourself and others far beyond your fondest hopes. Your personal effectiveness will be greatly increased. The performance of your workplace, your church, your community, and your nation will become more than 20 times greater. If you choose to employ the most advanced methods described in this book, you will accomplish more than most productive people would in hundreds of lifetimes. Yet the time, effort, and resources needed to do so are modest. Only those who want to live frustrated by not accomplishing what they see is needed will avoid reading and applying this book.

Discovering Mahler is the fourth and final volume of Donald Mitchell's unique studies of Mahler and his music. It fills the remaining gaps in the scrutiny of Mahler's works in the series, principally the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Symphonies, with the Ninth and Tenth.

A crucial year in the Britten/Auden relationship, which reshaped and redefined artistic direction in the immediate pre-war period.

Without an understanding of the conflicts of Mahler's youth one cannot truly appreciate the impulses behind the major symphonies and song cycles of his later years.

Donald Mitchell's second book on the life and work of Gustav Mahler examines the fruitful years of the First to the Fourth Symphonies, as well as the earlier song cycles from the Gesellen lieder to the magical Ruckert songs.

This volume concentrates on the composer's vocal music, including the late Rueckert Lieder, the 8th Symphony and Das Lied von der Erde.