In (hyper-loyal) cultures, loyalty is so highly prized that it covers a multitude of leadership sins. I’ve seen numerous bad leaders cover their ineptitude by stressing the importance of loyalty over competence. They teach that loyalty is more important than excellence and they use that idea to distract the team from their own inability to perform. Phil Cooke
The soul is healed by being with children.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect.
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Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When someone is seeking, ” said Siddartha, “It happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he...
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Hermann Hesse
Your words will either give you joy or give you sorrow, but if they were spoken without regret, they give you peace.
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Shannon L. Alder
Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.
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Criss Jami
More Quotes By Phil Cooke
The most creative approach is often the simple approach.
God chose to introduce Himself to us in the first verse of Genesis as a Creator. And yet so few Christians really understand the power of creativity to influence the culture.
In spite of the phenomenal growth of the Internet and mobile devices, I still believe television will continue to be an incredibly important medium for the Church. After all, over the last century, radio never killed movies, and TV never killed radio. Everything finds its...
Culture is more important than vision. Some leaders have great vision, but have created a toxic culture where that vision will never happen.
By 1833 the largest publisher in America, Harper and Company, boasted one horse-powered printing press and seven hand presses while the American Bible Society owned 16 new state-of-the-art, steam-driven presses and 20 hand presses.
