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Excellent thoughts from Greg Foster, following up from Justin Taylor’s post on whether there is a distinctively Christian way to think about all of our vocations. Related posts: Is There a Christian Way to be a Bus Driver? If God Can Protect Those Who Go To Hard Places as Missionaries, ...
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Wow. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Here’s the intro: One of the world’s top physicians, Dr. Eric Topol, has a prescription that could improve your family’s health and make medical care cheaper. The cardiologist claims that the key is the smartphone. Topol has ...
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A great article from the 99%.The 5 most dangerous creativity killers are: Role mismatch External end goal restriction Strict ration of resources Lack of social diversity Discouragement/no positive feedback Here’s one of the most important highlights of the article. There is truth to the fact that constraints often add to ...
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Live58 is a movement to end extreme poverty in our generation. This is a helpful connection from the latest email newsletter by the team: When we think of justice, the environment isn’t normally the first thing that comes to mind. Perhaps we think of human rights, or all those crime ...
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Justin Taylor gives a great answer to this question, which helps us all understand how any area of life or occupation we have — whether bus driver, marketing director, CEO, web designer, programmer, custodian, or anything else — relates to our faith. Justin shows that the single question of whether ...
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Michael Raynor and Mumtaz Amhed nail it in their article in the April Harvard Business Review: Better before cheaper—in other words, compete on differentiators other than price. Revenue before cost—that is, prioritize increasing revenue over reducing costs. There are no other rules—so change anything you must to follow Rules 1 ...
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Some helpful tips on inspiring excellence from the Harvard Business Review blog. Here are three that are especially key: Regularly, genuinely, and specifically acknowledge and appreciate people’s successes Create and protect periods of uninterrupted focus Tie the pursuit of excellence to a larger mission Related posts: “Religious Leaders Speak Inadequately ...
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David Murray has done an excellent service by listing more than 200 of the top leadership resources he’s collected over the last few years. They are divided into (1) Christian leadership posts and (2) other leadership posts. As he said, “there is much to learn from both.” Related posts: An ...
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A helpful chapter on speed leading in the book Taking Control of Your Time points out that leading in the midst of highly ambiguous environments requires a different approach than we typically think. The typical approach for setting direction is geared for relatively known territory. It goes like this: Observe ...