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. …
By Shelly Palmer https://shellypalmer.com/2023/07/a-verb-is-a-terrible-thing-to-waste/
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, …
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 …
From “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation” by Parker J. Palmer My youthful understanding of “Let your life speak” led me to conjure up the highest values I could imagine and then try to conform my life to them whether they were mine or not. If that sounds like what we …
From “What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman” by Lerita Coleman Brown “Once, when I was seeking the advice of Howard Thurman and talking to him at some length about what needed to be done in the world, he interrupted me,” writes Gil Bailie in the acknowledgments of his book Violence …
by David A. Shirey https://davidashirey.com/blog/living-out-the-verbs-of-our-lives-transitioning-into-retirement
What’s the difference between your brand story versus your business narrative? Turns out, everything.
By Stacey Burke https://www.entrepreneur.com/growing-a-business/10-lessons-ive-learned-in-10-years-of-running-my-own/455133
From “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation” by Steven Johnson This is a book about the space of innovation. Some environments squelch new ideas; some environments seem to breed them effortlessly. The city and the Web have been such engines of innovation because, for complicated historical reasons, they are both environments …