From “How Will You Measure Your Life?” by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon To maximize the value of the advice in this book, you must have a purpose in your life… A useful statement of purpose for a company needs three parts. The first is what I call a “likeness”. By analogy, […]
From “Cumulative Advantage: How to Build Momentum for Your Ideas, Business, and Life Against All Odds” by Mark W. Schaefer Kristian Bush is one of Nashville’s most prolific singer-songwriters and is best known for being one half of the Grammy-winning, multi-platinum band Sugarland. Kristian told me that a mashup of early life events created an
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From “Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life” by Richard Rohr The Dalai Lama said much the same thing: “Learn and obey the rules very well, so you will know how to break them properly.” Such discrimination between means and goals is almost the litmus test of whether you are moving in
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From “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation” by Parker J. Palmer After a few months of deepening frustrations, I took my troubles to an older Quaker woman well known for her thoughtfulness and candor, “Ruth,” I said, “people keep telling me that ‘way will open.’ Well, I sit in the silence,
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From “What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman” by Lerita Coleman Brown I have not yet read about a nature-based custom common among the enslaved Gullah people, African Americans who lived along the coast of and on the islands near South Carolina. Gullah youth would go out into nature to find
From “Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life” by Henri Nouwen with Michael J. Christensen and Rebecca J. Laird God speaks to us all the time and in many ways, but it requires spiritual discernment to hear God’s voice, see what God see, and read the signs in daily life. -Henri Nouwen
From “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything” by Stephen M. R. Covey Redundancy is unnecessary duplication. Of course, redundant mission-critical systems and data management are necessary. But a redundancy tax is paid in excessive organizational hierarchy, layers of management, and overlapping structures all designed to ensure control. For the most part,
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From “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” by Carol S. Dweck, PhD Mindsets are an important part of your personality, but you can change them. Just by knowing about the two mindsets, you can start thinking and reacting in new ways. People tell me they start to catch themselves when they are in the throes
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From “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation” by Steven Johnson In the late nineties, a Stanford Business School professor named Martin Ruef decided to investigate the relationship between business innovation and diversity. Ruef was interested in the coffeehouse model of diversity, not the “melting pot” political kind: the diversity of professions
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From “Embracing Your Second Calling: Find Passion and Purpose for the Rest of Your Life” by Dale Hanson Bourke “We arrive in this world with birthright gifts – then we spend the first half of our lives abandoning them or letting others disabuse us of them,” Parker Palmer says in Let Your Life Speak. “We