If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.
— Stephen Covey
There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you've got the chemistry for a lot of industry.
Trust is central to an economy that works.
In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.
Family home evening is more for the purpose of teaching values and gospel principles, displaying talents and enjoying different kinds of family fun and activities.
Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.
But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!
Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.
Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.
You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.
The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.
We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.
Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.
If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.
The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.
Begin with the end in mind.
Studies have identified a significant 'skills gap' between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today's global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.
The solutions to our problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.
When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.
The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.
The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.
Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.
Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.
In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.
How can you possibly reconcile the justice of God with the idea that only through Christ can you be saved? Most of the world lives and dies and never even hears of Christ. There has to be some mechanism set up for all those who have ever lived to have an opportunity to hear of Christ.
If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.
There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.
Leadership is a choice, not a position.
The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.
Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.
Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.
Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don't forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.
Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.
We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.
Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.
Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
