Not exact matches
Its
mission is to «help voters take back control of their democracy» by giving them a place to debate issues, research candidates» platforms, recruit vote pledges
from others and
more.
On the eve of the first anniversary of United Airlines» man - dragged -
from - plane incident,
more than 15,500 American Airlines said they are on a
mission to humanize air travel, the Chicago Business Journal reports.
The initial leases grew
from $ 500 per acre to over $ 1,100 per acre with
more than 1,200 acres being leased out to companies like Vincor, and
Mission Hills and Burrowing Owl wineries.
Carter said if there was one thing he could change about his time in office it would be the failed
mission to rescue the hostages
from Iran, which he said could have been successful if he had one
more helicopter.
Check out the full infographic for all 30
mission statements, including those
from Uber, Palantir, Pinterest, Dropbox, and many
more (in no particular order):
It's a place where people will be able to improve and be better and stronger and
more effective, and the effect of that spills over
from endurance sports to impact other aspects of people's lives... so in many ways it also feels like a
mission of doing good.
One of Nadella's first bold moves was to change the
mission from the archaic - sounding «a computer on every desk in every home» to the much
more customer - focused aim of «empowering every person and organization on the planet to achieve
more.»
«We've done so while bringing
more than 140,000 American troops home
from Iraq, and drawing down our forces in Afghanistan, where our combat
mission will end later this year.
If a core aspect of your work,
from the people, to your position, the product or the company's
mission isn't aligned with your personal motivations, defining clear boundaries for work - life balance will likely be
more important in your current job.
At the beginning of his presentation, he stressed that the
mission of his companies is to accelerate humanity's exit
from the fossil fuel era and to create
more sustainable lifestyles.
This is far
from the first time threats of violence have successfully shuttered discussion surrounding Gamergate's controversial
mission and even
more controversial actions.
Her work relies on data
from NASA's spaceward
missions, and a shift
from earth science toward even
more space data might offer new opportunities for her research.
Backed with
more than $ 45M
from investors like Goldman Sachs, Pine Brook and Kleiner Perkins, the company is on a
mission is to eliminate the inefficiencies of the mortgage industry and bring transparency to a traditionally opaque and confusing process.
Rinearson understands the male - dominated culture of both finance and tech can lead some women to shy away
from jumping into the industry, so she's made it her
mission to get
more women involved — starting with high schoolers.
Lastly, meaning may also be derived
from a
more concrete source: The social
mission inherent in the Coworking Manifesto, an online document signed by members of
more than 1,700 working spaces.
Changing the landscape Everything about Benevity,
from our suite of technology products to our passionate client service, is driven by our shared value
mission to make Goodness matter
more for companies, charities and communities.
They are
more likely to support economic incentives
from the government to encourage Canadian companies to set up operations in Asia, and initiatives to facilitate trade and investment
missions for Canadian companies to visit Asian countries.
[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned
from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid of your fear of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about
more than yourself [20:25] Make your
mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for
more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?
[05:50] Do it for passion, not for money [06:10] The importance of innovation and marketing [06:30] Start with a
mission and finding how to add value [06:50] Joe Gebbia's trajectory over a decade [07:10] Culture is the ultimate element to building your brand [07:40] Namale Resort [08:00] Finding a way to do
more for others than anyone else [08:45] The beauty of competition [09:15] Don't just advertise, become the expert [09:25] Value - added marketing [09:40] It takes 16 impressions to inspire buying behavior [10:10] Do something where marketing isn't marketing [10:30] The 17 - year old kid in real estate [11:35] Find a way to stand out
from the crowd — the trash strike example [14:10] Authenticity plays a critical role [16:00] Building reciprocity with your customers [17:00] Double the value you add [17:20] Bringing innovation and marketing to the forefront [18:35] Innovation can mean raising your price [18:55] What innovation really means [19:25] Changing the way something is perceived [20:55] The man who was copying Tony constantly [22:00] Does change happen in a second?
From the
mission statement, though, it would seem that Fitbit has its sights set on being
more than just a peddler of tech products.
Precursor Ventures is not yet a big name in venture capital, but it's taking on a big
mission: Making sure
more entrepreneurs
from diverse backgrounds get an equal shot at venture capital dollars and their Silicon Valley dreams.
The video and song start off harmless enough, until the 1:19 mark when Duncan gets into a rap battle with a TSA agent and transforms into a potentially offensive hip - hop stereotype to unleash rhymes like On a
mission from God; I like to call Him a Friend / I think that people are sick, and He's the med - o - cine, and this mind - expanding verse: Think I'm just a white man with a sheltered life / Nice home, two cars, two kids and a wife / Just look a little closer while you're starin» at me / «Cause sometimes what you get is
more than what you see.
The Church must go beyond mercy ministry in reaching the unreached people on our doorsteps, says Graham Miller
from London City
Mission More
A lot of the planters and pastors I talk to think that involvement in global
missions is something that has to wait until the church is
more established, but shouldn't international
missions be part of a church's DNA
from day one?
A very smart ethicist
from Harvard asks me, «Why does America have to have a
mission in the world any
more than Luxembourg has to have a
mission in the world?»
Earlier this year, Joanna and Chip auctioned
more than 300 items
from the original cafe to raise money for
Mission Waco's Jubilee Food Market, a nonprofit grocery store that's set to open next month.
But a
more careful reading of
mission history shows that, at the beginning, Western Protestant
missions, particularly those
from Britain, wanted to tread a path very different
from Western mercantile and colonial interests.
Roman Catholic
missions gave the impression of being even
more foreign than the Nestorians, who were almost entirely Mongol, for they received far
more visible support
from outside China than was ever true of the Nestorians either in the ninth or fourteenth century.
Ultimately, our
mission is to make disciples (Matthew 28:19 - 20) which includes everything
from serving unbelievers so they are drawn to Christ and saving Christians so they become
more like Christ.
But if it's fear that holds me back
from being on
mission and growing in Christ each time I choose courage and to be vulnerable I learn
more and grow to love God
more in the end.
Such a perspective for congregational
mission implies that Christ is already present in every community struggle, not just churchly ones, and that the gospel the congregation witnesses to other groups is
more likely encountered in those groups» own setting than imported
from our parish home.
The practical awareness of a «
mission» is inseparable
from the deciphering of the signs of the new creation, of the tendential character of the Resurrection, to quote Moltmann once
more.
But I did demur
from what I thought is an unduly «church - centric» approach that does not care enough for the secular world as an arena of
mission in our daily callings, and that seems too closed to the «world» as a source for building up a
more wholesome common life.
And the unity of the Church apart
from a
more vigorous, bold and adventurous witnessing to the truth of the Gospel, is a dead unity, something that is splendidly null and beautifully void».34 At the same conference, D.T. Niles observed that unity was never a strategy for
mission but was a part of the
mission itself.
From personal experience i was in a church who has the whole congregation pray for 1/2 hour in tongues.The people in this church were leaders from Africa.A place who sees more supernatural then us because we feel the need to analyze the thing to death.When we did the atmosphere shifted lives were changed.When i was on a mission trip to Mexico i felt lead to go pray with the women who in that culture are outcasts one of ladies who came with me started singing in the spirit as i was we stopped each other in shock when we realized we were sing the same song the needs of the women were met with out an interrup
From personal experience i was in a church who has the whole congregation pray for 1/2 hour in tongues.The people in this church were leaders
from Africa.A place who sees more supernatural then us because we feel the need to analyze the thing to death.When we did the atmosphere shifted lives were changed.When i was on a mission trip to Mexico i felt lead to go pray with the women who in that culture are outcasts one of ladies who came with me started singing in the spirit as i was we stopped each other in shock when we realized we were sing the same song the needs of the women were met with out an interrup
from Africa.A place who sees
more supernatural then us because we feel the need to analyze the thing to death.When we did the atmosphere shifted lives were changed.When i was on a
mission trip to Mexico i felt lead to go pray with the women who in that culture are outcasts one of ladies who came with me started singing in the spirit as i was we stopped each other in shock when we realized we were sing the same song the needs of the women were met with out an interrupter.
He had sent
more than eighty monks for
mission work in Turkestan (a region in Central Asia extending approximately
from the Caspian Sea to Lake Baikal).
It also shifted attention
from the church's
missions to its
mission; it carried with it the implication that Christian giving is
more an expression of moral commitment than of calculation.
Today's blog comes
from Stephan Bauman, who serves as the President of World Relief, which includes approximately 2,500 staff in 20 different countries focused on a
mission of empowering local churches to serve the vulnerable, including
more than 25 offices in the U.S. that resettle refugees.
Evangelical and fundamentalist
mission agencies have grown in proportion, while mainline bodies have focused
more on assisting indigenous ministries, supplying social services, lobbying for social justice through political channels, and even turning the cultural conduit around by sponsoring reverse missionary programs.14 Viewed
from only the American context, it appears that mainstream Protestantism has suffered a serious decline in its missionary efforts.
234 executions,
more than any other governor in modern times... yea, that's some
mission from God that he is on.
Indeed, the force of those historical changes derived
from the strength of the nationalist sentiment which the vernacular translations of
missions did far
more to excite and guide than any other single factor.
The world need one
more crackpot on a
mission from God, doesn't it?
I think we need to hear
more from women missiologists and
mission thinkers.
Fr Robert Rivers then turns to a
more practical approach in
From Maintenance to
Mission: Evangelisation and the Revitalisation of the Parish.
Mainline churches, on the other hand, without this strong emphasis on snatching people
from the threat of hell, have tended to interpret
mission less as competition and
more as nurture, cooperation, and action for social justice.
In this sense we must not only wish that Christian
mission continue among the religions of the East (Max Müller said that for every missionary he would rather send out ten
more), but also that the religions of the East send missionaries to us, (Chips
from a German Workshop, IV, 354) as Leibniz had already desired in the introduction to his Novissima Sinica.
The
mission was to save man
from God my crucifying God thereby releasing man
from sin that was placed on man by God, it there is still sin in the world after
more that 2000 years, I'd say, that is a failed
mission, if you do not agree please tell me how I am wrong.
It has been
more than sixteen years since Pope John Paul II issued Ex Corde Ecclesiae, underscoring that the Catholic university is born
from «the heart of the Church» and should faithfully serve the Church's faith and
mission, meaning the faith and
mission of those who are the Church.
Christians are being held back
from getting involved in
mission because of misconceptions, a survey has...
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