Morning Briefings

Tough choices don’t always involve professional codes or criminal laws. Nor do they always involve big, headline-size issues. They often operate in areas that laws and regulations don’t reach.

– Rushworth M. Kidder
How Good People Make Tough Choices: Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living

Life is a series of tests. There are different trials for different seasons.

– Bob Buford
Stuck in Halftime

There’s global competition, technology changes, more regulations than ever before. It’s just complicated. Things are harder today.

– Patrick Lencioni
The Five Temptations of a CEO

Maintaining a sense of urgency throughout a company is one of the most difficult challenges in business.

– Yvon Chouinard
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman

In God’s eyes, addictions are avenues for salvation. They provide the impetus I need to finally surrender my life to God. My addiction is ‘exhibit A’ among my proofs for why I can’t manage the job of being my own savior.

– Mark E. Thibodeaux
God, I Have Issues

Although being nice can be a worthy attribute to cultivate, it must never deter us from speaking the truth and from loving in tough ways.

– Sr. Melannie Svoboda
Living Faith

There are times when I believe God welcomes the circus into our lives to give us an opportunity to show that there is another way to live and respond to things.

– Tony Dungy
Quiet Strength Men’s Study Bible

Most people know how to resolve conflicts between right and wrong, however, right versus right choices are best understood as defining moments. There are small ones that come up weekly, bigger ones every few months and some that really are classic defining moments that come up every couple of years–and you’ve got to get these right.

– Joseph Badaracco
Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose Between Right and Right (podcast)