Morning Briefings

While heroic confrontations make for a compelling Bible story, it is probably not a likely scenario for us. Our conflicts will most likely occur in the quiet of a troubled heart, trying to sort out God’s voice from the heavy static that surrounds us. It is never easy to do this.

– Paul Pennick
Living Faith

We can’t be judgmental of someone at work and leave it behind just by leaving work. We can’t stay angry at our spouse. If we look fearfully at one thing, a tinge of anxiety settles over all things. Judgment, anger, and fear are all mindsets.

– Hugh Prather
Spiritual Notes to Myself

Those who are in sales are always aware that the next sale is behind the next door. They are where the rubber of production meets the road of consumption, whether in a showroom or a studio or on the phone or calling you at home. When the recovery starts, they will be the ones making purchases happen.

– Ben Stein
The Sales Profession: Attention Must be Paid

There are exactly twenty-four hours in each day. Managing your time isn’t the real issue. Your time is fixed. What you need is to manage the activities that are consuming your time.

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

It’s said that God is present everywhere. For me this is nowhere more true than a baseball field. In fact, I expect that baseball may just be the secular version of God’s grace to us all. So step up to the plate and make the sign of the cross. There’s a lot we can learn from angels, both guardians and those from Anaheim.

– Gary Graf
And God Said,”Play Ball!”

When God delays in prospering our businesses or promoting our newest product, it is so that we may die to our own ideas, our own egos. After the delay, we often experience the joy of experiencing God’s best for us.

– Corey Cleek
Devotional Ventures: 60 Inspiring Devotions by Business Professionals for Business Professionals

In the Hundred Acre Wood and elsewhere, those who know how to write a proper letter are much respected and in great demand.

– Pooh’s Little Etiquette Book

Insomnia-producing ethical dilemmas do not usually embody the kinds of straightforward conflicts or temptations that an intelligent twelve-year-old would recognize and astutely resolve if asked, “What’s the right thing to do?” The real thorny ethical challenges are typically subtle, often involve the welfare of more than one person or group, characteristically require the rapid and intuitive calculation of probable consequences, and always occur in real time.

– Clinton W. McLemore
Street-Smart Ethics: Succeeding in Business Without Selling Your Soul

I am fortunate, you might say, and that could mean anything. I will tell you what happened and let you judge for yourself.

– Carole Radziwill
What Remains

Lessons From the Recovery of 2001: Not so long ago, there were heroes on Wall Street. To stock exchange staff, it didn’t look as if they could get back up and operating quickly. But they had to. Wall Street was a symbol of America, the exchange an icon for freedom.

– Peggy Noonan
The Wall Street Journal