Morning Briefings

Worldwide, three people die every second, 180 every minute and nearly 11,000 every hour. If the Bible is right about what happens after death, it means that more than 250,000 people everyday go either to Heaven or Hell.

– Randy C. Alcorn
Heaven

Some authors I’m planning on quoting in the book:

– Norman V. Peale & Ken Blanchard
The Power of Ethical Management

– Dwight Curry
How We Behave at the Feast

– Patrick Lencioni
The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive

– Sr. Melannie Svoboda
Living Faith

– Pooh’s Little Etiquette Book

– David R. Henderson & Charles L. Hooper
Making Great Decisions in Business and Life

– Randy Alcorn
The Treasure Principle

– Jan Norman
Office gift exchanges yield weird presents

– David Bornstein

How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas

– Guy Kawasaki
Five most important lessons I’ve learned as an entrepreneur

Most people don’t realize that they are getting defensive until it’s too late to do much about it. Once they are firmly hooked by their defensive behavior, it is difficult for them to remain effective in a relationship.

– James W. Tamm
Radical Collaboration: Five Essential Skills to Overcome Defensiveness and Build Successful Relationships

I think what is important is to have people run things who are principled, who have a set of ethics and who are anchored to those beliefs and ethics. It doesn’t matter if you are Jewish or Catholic or Mormon; what matters is that you take those values and you actually apply them. You bring those values to work.

– Jeff Benedict
The Mormon Way of Doing Business

I’ve been quiet lately on updates for a couple of reasons: 1) I tend to go incommunicado during Lent; and 2) it’s at the mid-point in the writing when it’s just work. The excitement has started to wear off and the light at the end of the tunnel seems blurred at best.

Pray for me. It’s lonely out here.

Leslie Bianco

Executive Editor

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives; do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies; succeed anyway.

– Kent M.Keith
Anyway-The Paradoxical Commandments: Finding Personal Meaning in a Crazy World

Jesus went into the desert an unknown young carpenter from Nazareth, with thirty years of hidden life behind him. After the desert he returned to Galilee, and started to preach. Quickly he became a public figure, but he loved to withdraw to desert or mountain to recharge his energies by prayer. He moved forward like any of us, with no sure knowledge of what was to happen to him.

– Sacred Space

We are apt to put things into different compartments and to feel that therefore they have no relationship one to another. We find it hard to appreciate that our business dealings (et al) are affected by our conception of our relationship to God.

– Herbert Vernon Harris
Strength for Service to God and Country

And we’re going to need your help in doing that. This, we’ve decided, is the year when we finally bust-out. If we are ever going to make a big move, now is the time.

Here’s what we need your help with:
1) In the Company of Prayer: The Book project is in the works. Please follow along on the journey. There is a link to our blog posting documenting the journey at the end of most Morning Briefings.

2) To attract publishers and others involved in the book project, we need to revamp and SEO our website and all of its various components.

3) We want more people like you in our community. To do this, we’ve initiated a meager Google Adwords campaign and have our sights on a similar Facebook campaign. Our test shows that the investment is working. We just need a bigger budget.

4) We need to keep everyone over here motivated. We’re now in our fifth year of operation, and as you all know, it’s not been the easiest five years for any of us. No one’s getting a paycheck over here. So, occasional comments on our Morning Briefings and quick responses to our daily reflections go a long way in boosting morale!

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Thanks and many more prayers,

Leslie Bianco
Executive Editor

How to Lose Customers and Alienate People: A cinema-chain employee responds with a rude e-mail to a customer complaint, and a Facebook boycott is born. Your company may have a strict social media policy, but that still doesn’t make it immune to Facebook, Twitter et al’s special brand of justice.

– Courtney Rubin
Inc.