Archive for November, 2007

Don’t be first, be best…

Here’s a couple quotes from November’s issue of “Fast Company” (p.69). I thought my readers who are leaders might enjoy them.
“The scrappy Savings and Loan Credit Union in…..Australia has an internal strategic motto.” “We don’t want to be first but we sure as________…..don’t want to be third.”
“Don’t be first, be best. Look for […]

Helping people decide

Manipulation has no place in the work of the Gospel. But leadership requires knowing how to help people get the “stuff” they need to make sound decisions. Here are some thoughts I have run across that can help the process of getting an apparently non-responsive group to show progress:
1. Narrow options
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Nostalgia…

Nostalgia, Webster tells us means, “to return home.” But the word is also related to an ancient word meaning “to survive.” Emotionally it means “the state of being homesick” or “sentimental yearning.” Whatever it is, I don’t like it.
I have hidden the books I have written in the past out of sight. […]