Margin is the space that once existed between ourselves and our limits. Today we use margin just to get by. This book is for anyone who yearns for relief from the pressure of overload. Reevaluate your priorities, determine the value of rest and simplicity in your life, and see where your identity really comes from. The benefits can be good health, financial stability, fulfilling relationships, and availability for God’s purpose.

The impact technology has on our lives today is incredible and offers amazing conveniences to our everyday lives. There is no doubt or debate about how technology can enhance life if it is used in the right way—in moderation and with clear and concise boundaries around it. But the more technology enters our lives without boundaries, allowing it to rule and take top priority, the more easily we can find ourselves virtually imprisoned by it and not able to truly enjoy its benefits. Instead, we become its slave as it leads us down a road of isolation, stealing our rest and taking the place of the things in life that matter most to us: our families, our friends, and our relationship with God. InCreating a Tech Sabbath Habit,author Bryan Brooks shares his personal technology lifestyle transformation in a remarkable way. Through exposing details of his personal testimony of trials, combined with divulging his God-given convictions about the risks of technology overload, Bryan helps guide you through implementing your own tech Sabbath habit plan. Filled with commonsense approach and practical insight,Creating a Tech Sabbath Habitwill help you learn the importance of unplugging your mind—following God's command of rest to restore your spirit—and will teach you how to lead a more balanced high-tech lifestyle without getting rid of the technology in it.

Rediscover the space you need in between your work, your schedule, and your limits by eliminating unneeded frustrations and reflecting on how you spend your time. From Richard Swenson, author of the bestselling book Margin, this devotional’s 180 daily readings offer encouragement, healing, and rest as you deal with time management, stress, and busyness.

This book deals with risk capital provided for established firms outside the stock market, private equity, which has grown rapidly over the last three decades, yet is largely poorly understood. Although it has often been criticized in the public mind as being short termist and having adverse consequences for employment, in reality this is far from the case. Here, John Gilligan and Mike Wright dispel some of the biggest myths and misconceptions about private equity. The book provides a unique and authoritative source from a leading practitioner and academic for practitioners, policymakers, and researchers that explains in detail what private equity involves and reviews systematic evidence of what the impact of private equity has been. Written in a highly accessible style, the book takes the reader through what private equity means, the different actors involved, and issues concerning sourcing, checking out, valuing, and structuring deals. The various themes from the systematic academic evidence are highlighted in numerous summary vignettes placed alongside the text that discuss the practical aspects. The main part of the work concludes with an up-to-date discussion by the authors, informed commentators on the key issues in the lively debate about private equity. The book further contains summary tables of the academic research carried out over the past three decades across the private equity landscape including: the returns to investors, economic performance, impact on R&D and employees, and the longevity and life-cycle of private equity backed deals.