God Is My CEO: Following God's Principles in a Bottom-Line World »

Larry Julian, President of the Julian Group, uses his experience consulting with the corporate, government, and community sectors in successful speaking, facilitating, and coaching engagements. Over the past several years, Larry has facilitated hundreds of strategic planning retreats, teambuilding retreats and leadership development programs. In addition, Larry has conducted several leadership surveys and has written numerous articles to help leaders find deeper insight and meaning to their leadership roles.

His clients have included 3M, American Express Financial Advisors, Amoco, AT&T, General Mills, Honeywell, Mayo Clinic, PepsiCo, US West, and hundreds of other large and small companies.

He is a member of National Speakers Association and Minnesota Speakers Association and is a graduate of Michigan State University School of Business. He lives with his wife in suburban Minneapolis, Minnesota.

About Larry's passion to write GOD IS MY CEO:

After years of work within the trenches of corporate America, Larry observed that people in all positions, from CEO to line employee, were searching for meaning and purpose in their work. In particular, leaders were desperately looking for guidance for the tough moral and ethical decisions yet there were no books that addressed these deeper issues.

"I have observed that people want to do the right thing, but are challenged by and succumb to the bottom-line demands of daily business. While we are encouraged to seek God on Sunday, we are not equipped or supported to trust God in order to make the right decisions in the trenches Monday through Friday. I have discovered a huge number of business leaders who are searching for spiritual guidance to help them through the tough dilemmas. My passion is to help the leader seek God for guidance and, as a result, find personal and business success."

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Publishers Weekly

Will money or morality emerge victorious in the war zone of work skirmishes? Julian, with seasoned experience as a leadership management consultant for companies such as 3M, Honeywell, AT&T and General Mills, provides solid answers for this troubling dilemma. He discusses 10 key principles that he deems essential for transforming workplace problems into both spiritual and bottom-line success stories. Each chapter poses an issue (such as developing patience, cultivating leadership by example, yielding control, making tough decisions and maintaining right priorities) followed by a solution. In a chapter on "integration," for example, Julian poses the bottom-line question: "How do I balance employee needs with profit obligations?" To explain his approach (to "integrate people and profits into win-win solutions"), Julian details the experiences of two business executives who have creatively solved this problem, and shares the underlying principles they implemented. Indeed, the personal stories of business leaders form the core of the book, tied together by Julian's practical steps and discussion questions at the close of each chapter. Readers will be especially intrigued by the trials and triumphs of such well-regarded business executives as S. Truett Cathy (Chick-Fil-A), Bob O. Naegele Jr. (Rollerblade), C. William Pollard (The ServiceMaster Company) and Marilyn Carlson Nelson (Carlson Companies). Many leaders, whether newly indoctrinated to the world of business or veteran executives, will find tools for the trade in this excellent guidebook to living out one's faith in a ruthless "bottom-line" world. (Apr.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.