418:). I know for a fact that he made it into the reprint of Sacred Marriage, as well as a few of Gary's other books, and coauthored The Sacred Search. Yet even though he has all that influence in that sphere, his business books have even more influence, that influence is just harder to account for because the books are used internally by management in corporations. We run into this "problem" at Princeton University in business/entrepreneurship courses I'm in because often some of the most "creative" scholars (as Knowledge would define them) aren't largely quoted because they are used internally by powerful corporations, who like to share externally almost nothing. It is just sort of word of mouth which books are considered of big influence and thought changing. Wilke's book does that for emphasizing and mapping out how intentional work culture and relationships can increase profits and is the other necessary side of the coin to standard business operations. Thomas's citations of Wilke show how influential he is in a domain that he doesn't even specialize in, this is something that could be reasonably attributed to his work on corporate culture.
334:. It's one in a list of four recommended books, but only a mention - no in-depth coverage. All four books are published by Sonkist Ministries (originally, I think) and LEADon, both of which are founded by Wilke (Rebecca Wilke co-founded Sonkist Ministries), and are therefore self-published. I found no reviews of any of the four books which Steve Wilke authored or co-authored. The joint bio for the couple on Amazon says they "serve as radio media consultants on Marriage, Family, Mental Health, and Educational issues." I wonder if that's the radio show reference - that they are interviewed from time to time on some radio show. Yes, he has a Ph.D., but that doesn't make any of his works scholarly, and none of them appear to be - certainly not the four we've identified so far. And I see nothing to indicate any of his books are well known either. This all strengthens my !vote to delete. Anyone can self-publish and run self-help seminars. I see nothing more here. In cases where notability is marginal, my bias is to keep, but this doesn't strike me as even marginal.
513:, you have done a great deal to improve this article, but there is still inadequate sourcing. All content about Steve Wilke is either self-published or from Amazon, except the Bill Maher appearance. (The AFTA article is about Framo, not Wilke.) The cit given for the couple's radio show did not support the claims made or the listener numbers, and in any case it is from the couple's own website, not an independent RS for potentially contentious information. (They have a COI to provide higher numbers and greater importance.) I have a hunch there is more out there, but I have looked pretty diligently and not found any, yet I am not familiar with sources for Christian ministries or reviews of Christian books. I don't like deleting articles that look marginal, but this hasn't yet met notability requirements, not even marginally. I do hope you can find RS, either in the corporate literature or the Christian literature - wherever. Deletion is an unpleasant undertaking.
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December (VERY impressive, and a total surprise, given his narrow target audience), but it's around 1.6 million now. Still, that book was the subject of at least nine independent reviews, four of them in academic journals. (He wasn't even targeting academics when he wrote it. He has no college degree, but they consider it a valuable work.) It remains a very important book in his field - the seminal work, in fact, on the subject he covered. (And it was self-published, as specialty books often are.) I know, it's just one bit of information in your decision-making, and I don't disagree with you, but I wanted to point that out.
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Southwestern, and the city manager of Lake Mills, WI, all named Steve Wilke.)
257:#2 "The person is known for originating a significant new concept, theory or technique." Like most scholarly authors, their books are often only read by a select few, though this does not disqualify them for notability. He just happens to be one of those topics where there is not that much literature and thus not that many references, but Knowledge rightfully contains many articles on the scholars who specialize in more obscure topics. Wilke falls into that category and thus should qualify under #2 of
261:. Also, I checked the Amazon page and can confirm that all of them were written by Wilke. Albeit he strangely seems to always include his wife in the authoring of his books. The books that aren't listed here on the Knowledge page seem to be more popular literature in character than these two business management philosophy books listed here, which fall under scholarly.
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is a report of one of his seminars, but a closer look at the website shows any member of the armed forces can contribute content, so it's pretty much a blog entry by the guy who wrote it. There seem to be a number of places that sell his 2 books, but no reviews anywhere that I could find. If his
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Corporate Family Systems work. I think they fall under the headings of self-help and popular psychology
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279:(Please sign your posts. :) I think it's a bit of a stretch for him to qualify under #2. He isn't known for originating Family Systems (that was his advisor, James Framo). He adapted it for use in corporate settings. His adaptation is arguably original, but
695:. Does not meet WP:N. And may I say that I find it highly offensive (and this is an aside, not a vote) that all of the books listed were co-authored by a husband&wife team, but that the only WP article and the only Amazon author page is in
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