Latter-day Saints Bishop and Branch President
A bishop counsels his congregation’s members on spiritual matters. 2012 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. A bishop is the leader of a local congregation (known as a ward) with duties similar to those of a pastor, priest or rabbi. He has overall...
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The Power of Spiritual Indebtedness
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Top 70 Best Quotes from Principles by Ray Dalio
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95 Best Quotes From The Laws of Human Nature
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Top 40 Best Quotes from “Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World”
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Top 42 Quotes from Think Again by Adam Grant
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Top 25 Quotes From The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger
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The Power of Compounded Growth and Lifelong Learning
“Compounding is the process in which an asset’s earnings, from either capital gains or interest, are reinvested to generate additional earnings over time. This growth, calculated using exponential functions, occurs because the investment will generate...
How Not to Take Things Personally? | Frederik Imbo
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Change Leadership: John Kotter’s 8-Step Model
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John P. Kotter’s Top 48 Best Quotes
“Most US corporations today are over-managed and under-led. They need to develop their capacity to exercise leadership.”
Top 85 Best Quotes from “Quiet: The Power of Introverts”
In her book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, Susan Cain argues that we dramatically undervalue introverts and shows how much we lose in doing so
David Epstein’s BYU Speech “The Path of Most Resistance: How to Learn For a Changing World”
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WHEN COLLABORATION MAY KILL CREATIVITY
If you had gathered the same people who created Linux, installed them in a giant conference room for a year, and asked them to devise a new operating system, it’s doubtful that anything so revolutionary would have occurred.
Top 40 Quotes from The Coddling of the American Mind
In The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff, the authors make the case that our culture has embraced three Great Untruths in the past ten years or so: The Untruth...
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Is COVID-19 Killing The Open Office?
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If You Regularly Say “I’m Sorry You Feel That Way” You May Lack Empathy
According to an article on Inc.com if you regularly say “I’m sorry you feel that way” or some variation of this phrase, you may lack empathy, because “you can’t actually be sorry for the way someone else feels. You can only be sorry for...
Top 30 Quotes (and Tips) From Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
Does we really need seven or eight hours of sleep a night? The answer is that we do, even if we have convinced ourselves that we don’t.
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Optimism and Pessimism: Two Ways of Looking at Life
The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything they do, and are their own fault. The optimists, who are confronted with the same hard knocks of this world, think about misfortune in the opposite way. They tend to believe defeat is just a temporary setback, that its causes are confined to this one case.
9 Tips to Remember More of What You Read
When asked once about the key to success, Buffett said, “Read 500 pages like this every day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it.”
Put Your Dream to the Test: 10 Questions to Help You See It and Seize It by John C. Maxwell
“Always remember there are only two kinds of people in this world—the realists and the dreamers. The realists know where they’re going. The dreamers have already been there.”
Bezos, Musk, & Buffett See The World Differently, Because They See Time Differently (by Michael Simmons)
Long-term thinking supports the failure and iteration required for invention, and it frees us to pioneer in unexplored spaces. Seek instant gratification — or the elusive promise of it — and chances are you’ll find a crowd there ahead of you. — Jeff Bezos
The Law of Legacy (#21) – The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
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Top 60 Quotes From “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience” by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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The Law of Explosive Growth (#20) – The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John C. Maxwell
The Law of Explosive Growth is the 20th of the 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John C. Maxwell and it states that: “to add growth, lead followers; to multiply growth, lead leaders.”
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