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In chapter 3 of Back To The Cottage, John Sipple lays out 7 foundational
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In this final chapter of Back To The Cottage, John focuses on the art of leadership: who are the leaders? What exactly do they do? How are they developed?
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How do you raise effective kids who become effective adults? Ingram presents principles and exercises to develop your child's potential, values, and character while drawing closer to your child.
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Five breakthrough techniques: unconditional responsibility, unflinching integrity, authentic communication, impeccable commitments, right leadership
Is church work more spiritual than any other work?
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I believe the real difference between success and failure in a corporation can very often be traced to the question of how well the organization brings out the great energies and talents of its people. What does it do to help these people find common cause with each other? [...]
Thomas J. Watson
David Batstone: Saving the Corporate Soul -- and (Who Knows?) Maybe Your Own
Eight Principles for Creating and Preserving Wealth and Well-Being for You and Your Company Without Selling Out
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Batstone, the executive editor of Sojourners magazine, among other endeavors, outlines eight principles for building corporate integrity and profitability without compromising your own values.
We're all for the afterlife but what are we supposed to do in the meantime? In the middle of too much, too fast, how are we supposed to pay attention to God?
Second in Bernard Moon's two-part recollection on how business ethics can be passed from one generation to the next.
Dan Wooldridge points out four things that jetBlue is doing to enable it to successfully respond to its recent crisis that stranded passengers on the runway for 11 hours.
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But I think that the things we have come to care about are insignificant when placed on the scale that Dostoyevsky, or Camus, or Tolstoy, or Kierkegaard, or Kafka, or the Old Testament, or the New Testament, or Rollo May would use. The problem is, Sarah, we're just not very serious people these days. [...]
Michael E. Gerber
Dan Wooldridge shares this excerpt from Joseph Michelli's book, The New Gold Standard, to make us think about the authenticity of corporate values and culture in caring for people and making a difference.
Dan Wooldridge follows up on Jim Hancock's post on Enron: Innovation Corrupted with thoughts on how worldview trumps values in decisionmaking and the impact that has on personal and corporate life.
When we leave our legacy in the hands of others, we must look beyond their competency, and into their hearts.
Successful businesses realize the importance of capital, financial capital, but also increasingly intellectual and social capital. The most significant capital of all, however, is moral capital.
Dan Wooldridge points out that the rampant cheating in schools will eventually have a long term impact in business performance and the quality of our society.
Dr Peter Heslam, director of Transforming Business at Cambridge University, reflects on Anita Roddick (founder of The Body Shop) and her contributions to transformational business.
Most middle-class Americans tend to worship their work, to work at their play, and to play at their worship. As a result, their meanings and values are distorted, their relationships disintegrate faster than they can keep them in repair, and their lifestyles resemble a cast of characters in search of a plot.
Gordon Dahl
Humanness - that's what we must stress, if we are really the children of God, redeemed as men. Without it community dies. So I would encourage all of us to outdo each other in order to create, in order to have something to share. Let us not take offense at what others have. [...]
Udo Middelman
Dan Wooldridge reflects on George Gilder's Soul of Silicon essay. Good parenting is the ultimate entrepreneurial act and the most crucial process of a healthy economy.
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Dan Wooldridge offers a challenge that businesses really live out enduring values in order to make a difference in the world.
Glenn McMahan, our man in Brazil, takes only cold comfort from the knowledge that the corrupt will eventually fall into pits of their own digging. Is that enough? What benefit does integrity bring to a person? What reward is there for honesty?
The Times of London reports Google co-founder Sergey Brin has second thoughts about the price Google paid to be in China.
As an investor or consumer, should you care how a company makes a profit as long as it is a good investment?
Some people laughed when Google went public with their plan to fight evil and make the world a better place. They're not laughing anymore.
Jim Hancock presents an update of the fastest-growing searches on Google... What do our searches say about who we are, and what does it mean that the Department of Justice want to know?
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Anyone with a hierarchy of values has placed something at its apex, and whatever that is is the god he serves. The Old Testament and New Testament call such gods idols...the systems that give them allegiance are religions.
Herb Schlossberg
"27 Thing to Do Before You Die" struck Bradley J. Moore as irresistibly intriguing, even though it was really just more of your standard-fare motivational crap. Or was it?
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Recently, Glenn McMahan has caught himself complaining about potholed roads as he drove in a nice car past a man pulling a heavy cart by hand...about the heat as he sat in an air-conditioned office...about the falling value of the dollar as he ate a great meal. That sounds uncomfortably familiar
Chip Toth of LeadersInspire shares a vivid lesson that he and his clients learned about authentically living out values at the curb of O'Hare Airport.
What Matters Now cover, "More," by Thomas Hawk
"When the economy tanks, it’s natural to think of yourself first," Seth Godin writes in What Matters Now, the free eBook released last week. But, "It turns out that the connected economy doesn’t respect this natural instinct. Instead, we’re rewarded for being generous."
David Wooldridge writes about British golfer, Brian Davis, who self-reported an infraction and lost over $400,000 and the chance to win his first tournament. Would leaders from Goldman Sachs have reported such an infraction on the course?
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