Transcript Janice took a risk and told her boss the truth: his “big idea” for increased sales was a dud. It actually distracted the field staff from what did work. And numbers were...
Johann Sebastian Bach—choirmaster and composer—wrote dozens of cantatas. Each one wove music and mood to present that Sunday’s biblical text for his mostly illiterate congregation. At the bottom ...
In the late sixties, Pete Seeger recorded a hit song called "Turn! Turn! Turn!" The words are from the Bible. The third chapter of Ecclesiastes says, "For everything there is a time and...
The philosopher Kierkegard gives us a great lesson for life. ...
Transcript Tim McGuire was editor of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. When he retired, he overheard someone trying to explain what he intended to do next. A friend said, “Tim’s going to write about...
In 1915, Winston Churchill was out of the Admiralty and suddenly facing forced leisure. When he found a children’s set of watercolors, he decided to try painting. At first, the large blank page...
Donna got up on the wrong side of the bed—and she let people know it.
The University of Hawaii has a graduate assistant football coach who can’t move or speak on his own. Brian Kajiyama has cerebral palsy. He buzzes the field in a motorized wheelchair. He speaks...
Michael Whitehurst likes to challenge his buddies to be accountable. Sometimes he uses metaphor.
