Morning Briefings

No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

– John 15:13

Early in life, people give up their health to gain wealth. In later life, people give up some of their wealth to regain health!

– Ken Blanchard, D.W. Edington and Marjorie Blanchard
The Heart of the Leader

DFID, the UK Government aid organization, launched a new program to promote entrepreneurs across Nigeria, India, Bangladesh, Zambia, and Malawi and help companies develop business models that benefit the poor. Large companies are encouraged to work with smaller ones to establish their distribution network. An example is Coca Cola. To date, more than 2,600 small distribution businesses have been formed as a result, creating direct employment for more than 12,000 people, and generating more than $500 million in revenues throughout East Africa.

– Andreas Widmer
Making Business Work for the Poor

God recognizes the cry of my heart as prayer. There is no doubt about it, prayer is a marvelous exchange.

– Macrina Wiederkehr
A Tree Full of Angels

The question isn’t did you fail, but did you pick yourself up and move ahead. And there is one other little question ‘Did you collaborate in your own defeat?’ A lot of people do. Learn not to.

– John Gardner
from a 1993 speech

The true measure of a man has nothing to do with status: life is not about prestige; it is about passion and purpose. It is about impacting the lives of others.

– Jeffrey Marx
The Long Snapper: A Second Chance, A Super Bowl, A Lesson for Life

The will of God is not to send us the disaster, but to send us the disaster to overcome.

– Rabbi Kushner

Taken as a whole, Proverbs 16:3 (Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed) is telling us that when we genuinely devote our work to the real Boss, over time, God will transform our mind set. He’ll change the way we view management and He’ll inoculate us from compromising His will on the job.

– Michael A. Zigarelli
Management by Proverbs

It is not what you do for your children but what you taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

– Ann Landers

The good life, in the most positive use of that term, is the result of a healthy desire to be successful. But on our way to becoming successful, we begin to pick up signals that tell us success is not enough.

– Bob Buford
Halftime