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Lifes supreme achievement is to be a scholar of the scriptures
In Jesus’s time and throughout the ages, the Jewish people believed that becoming a great scholar of the Scriptures represented life’s supreme achievement.
Leaders with vision and no compromise fail
Leaders with a holy vision and no compromise fail. Early in the rise of Lincoln’s political career his party was at a crossroads. They sought to elect a new Illinois politician, but could not decide upon the man. Abolitionists cried for a candidate with a bold public stance against slavery. Unionists urged for a moderate voice to subdue the rising discontent between North and South. Each had their candidate; each vilified the other’s.…
Pride strikes at the pinnacle of success
If pride were a snake, it would live on the mountaintop. When you receive a generous promotion, make a major sale, garner work accolades for a critical project; these are times when pride comes near to kill. There’s little time to bask in one’s self-sufficiency on the climb up. Pitfalls hide on both sides, the peak is still distant, the possibility of success tentative. At the exhilarating finish, the temptation to rely on yourself and to boast in your achievement is high, and there is little protection from your environment.…
Dominant culture affects corporate design
ℹ️ The idea of the corporation is a seed which grows different flowers in diverse soils, and the wise entrepreneur will ask questions and temper expectations accordingly. Ride a rickshaw through any Indian city and you will discover, possibly with fear, that ‘commute’ means something different than in the United States. Jump on a subway in London and you’ll politely be asked to ‘mind the gap’. These are surface-level differences, but a host culture, like unique soil, will also sprout corporate expressions as different in their character and makeup as the nation itself differs from its neighbors.…
Entrepreneurial ability is more than creativity
Entrepreneurial success cannot be predicted on the basis of the entrepreneur’s creativity. Inventiveness is not a certain indication of entrepreneurial ability. Many of the well-known inventors: Da Vinci, Newton, Einstein, were able to see what no one else could. They designed machines or proposed ideas ahead of their time, ideas that would later become billion dollar enterprises. Yet they would not be the ones to create value for their communities from the ideas they generated, neither would they capture any of the benefit for themselves.…