From “Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life” by Henri Nouwen with Michael J. Christensen and Rebecca J. Laird For Henri, discernment was a daily practice. In fact, it was a moment-to-moment practice, because he found no model, no pattern for what he felt called to do. He stepped into the unknown like a tightrope […]
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From “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything” by Stephen M. R. Covey Consider another example, The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was passed in the U.S. in response to the Enron, WorldCom, and other corporate scandals. While it appears that Sarbanes-Oxley may be having a positive effect in improving or at least sustaining trust
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From “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation” by Steven Johnson The pattern of “competition” is an excellent case in point. Every economics textbook will tell you that competition between rival firms leads to innovation in their products and services. But when you look at innovation from the long-zoom perspective, competition turns
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From “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner” by Frederick Buechner THE TEMPTATION IS always to reduce life to size. A bowl of cherries. A rat race. Amino acids. Even to call it a mystery smacks of reductionism. It is the mystery. As far as anybody seems to know, the vast majority of
How not to alienate your audience in 9 easy steps https://open.substack.com/pub/adamgrant/p/if-you-do-this-your-emails-might?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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From “How Will You Measure Your Life?” by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon There’s a reason that the film “It’s a Wonderful Life” has been so resonant for decades: what matters most in the darkest hours of George Bailey’s life are the many personal relationships he has invested in along the way.
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By Shelly Palmer https://shellypalmer.com/2023/07/a-verb-is-a-terrible-thing-to-waste/
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From “Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life” by Luke Burgis We’ll see in this chapter that mimetic conflict is contagious. It can lead to a social environment in which everyone is reacting mimetically to everyone else. This dynamic keeps people locked in cycles of endless conflict, bound to one another through mimesis,
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By Susan K. Smith Sometimes, life is so painful that we actually shut God out. The fact that life can and does throw hardballs that knock us down is something we all know about. We have been there. We have found ourselves trying to get up and regain our footing, and our stability in a
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