Not exact matches
«As a company that is committed to the
principle that everyone deserves to
live without fear of discrimination simply for being
who they are, becoming an employer in North Carolina, where members of our teams will not have equal rights under the law, is simply untenable,» Schulman wrote in an open letter.
Attached to the letter was a list of practices they called «common sense corporate governance
principles» that amounted to a basic outline of a code many U.S. public companies today already either agree with or
live by, or both, including issues of
who sits on the board, the kinds of topics the board should discuss, and the adoption of proxy access.
In the bottom right quadrant put the names of your low performers
who are committed to
living the
principles of your desired culture.
I know my earlier book
Principled Profit: Marketing That Puts People First has changed
lives, and this book not only expands and amplifies those powerful concepts under a specifically eco-friendly lens, its also going to reach a lot more people because it has the support and power not only of my personal network, but also the resources of both a big NYC publisher (John Wiley & Sons) and my superstar co-author, Mr. Guerrilla Marketing himself, Jay Conrad Levinson — the man
who brought us not only all the Guerrilla Marketing books but also Uniteds Friendly Skies, Allstates Good Hands, and even the Marlboro Man.
[16:00] Pain + reflection = progress [16:30] Creating a meritocracy to draw the best out of everybody [18:30] How to raise your probability of being right [18:50] Why we are conditioned to need to be right [19:30] The neuroscience factor [19:50] The habitual and environmental factor [20:20] How to get to the other side [21:20] Great collective decision - making [21:50] The 5 things you need to be successful [21:55] Create audacious goals [22:15] Why you need problems [22:25] Diagnose the problems to determine the root causes [22:50] Determine the design for what you will do about the root causes [23:00] Decide to work with people
who are strong where you are weak [23:15] Push through to results [23:20] The loop of success [24:15] Ray's new instinctual approach to failure [24:40] Tony's ritual after every event [25:30] The review that changed Ray's outlook on leadership [27:30] Creating new policies based on fairness and truth [28:00] What people are missing about Ray's culture [29:30] Creating meaningful work and meaningful relationships [30:15] The importance of radical honesty [30:50] Thoughtful disagreement [32:10] Why it was the relationships that changed Ray's
life [33:10] Ray's biggest weakness and how he overcame it [34:30] The jungle metaphor [36:00] The dot collector — deciding what to listen to [40:15] The wanting of meritocratic decision - making [41:40] How to see bubbles and busts [42:40] Productivity [43:00] Where we are in the cycle [43:40] What the Fed will do [44:05] We are late in the long - term debt cycle [44:30] Long - term debt is going to be squeezing us [45:00] We have 2 economies [45:30] This year is very similar to 1937 [46:10] The top tenth of the top 1 % of wealth = bottom 90 % combined [46:25] How this creates populism [47:00] The economy for the bottom 60 % isn't growing [48:20] If you look at averages, the country is in a bind [49:10] What are the overarching
principles that bind us together?
The Frankel Fiduciary Prize was established to acknowledge individuals
who have made significant contributions to the preservation and advancement of fiduciary
principles in public
life.
And by the way, destroying the environment, choosing greed as your fundamental
principle, and badmouthing everyone
who is not exactly likw YOU is not reflecting God in your
life.
It is always good for nations, as well as for individuals, to go back to first
principles — to take fire again from the fire that plainly burned in so many brave others
who cast their
lives upon the flames of patriotic duty.
And they didn't enter political
life to settle for some regular Republican
who's more like a CEO than a
principled statesman.
Everyone
who runs for a public office will have his / her
life exposed; if a belief in God is part of the core, then that coincides with the
principles that originally shaped this country and have made it a democratic and desirable place to
live.
I am a proud American
who chose to become Baha'i around 20 years ago, and I am very proud of the strength and resilience that the Baha'i community in Iran is demonstrating, while attempting to
live their
lives in obediance to Baha'i
principles, which include obediance and loyalty to their government even when it is trying to destroy them.
«Youth is the period for the conscience to be formed so that that young people can become people
who are clear - sighted in
life, people of
principle, people
who inspire trust and are credible.
But I think the main working
principle is that each of us has vulnerabilities — both good things and bad things in our
life — that can be exploited by someone
who has no scruples.
Doors keep out those
who aren't
living life with the
principles of God.....
Both broad streams of traditionalist responses to the contemporary climate of oppression — those
who say our troubles are an extension of liberal
principles and those
who say they are a betrayal of those
principles — tend to jump too quickly from theory to practice, and so to treat the
lived experience of our society as a kind of working out of philosophical premises.
The social ethical
principles here arise out of love itself; which means the responsible relationship of people
who commit their
lives to one another.
There can be little question that Whitehead himself accepted this; he believed that the tenderness, sympathy, and love which were shown in Jesus»
life and death are in fact the disclosure of the nature of the Divine Reality
who is the chief — although not the only —
principle of explanation for all that has been, is, and will be.
More was a man
who stood by his
principles in an issue unworthy of martyrdom, while Bonhoeffer stood to the death for a purpose worthy of giving one's
life — to rid a country of tyranny.
OR, might God choose to reveal truth through the experiences of a people
who tried to be true to him, certain moral
principles, failing again and trying again, people looking for universal truths and communicating them to their children generation after generation, orally and through writing things down, organizing themselves into communities and societies, aiming for justice, teaching each other, defending their families,
lives, cities, and governments.
God, after an, did not assume the guise of a remote Rabbi
who simply declared the
principles of eternal truth, but in the Son he compassionately entered into the
life of ordinary people and declared to them what God's Word meant to them.
Jesus is the logos not as some cosmic abstract
principle, but in his human
life as Israel's Messiah and as the one
who brings the proper relationship of the creature to the Creator.
Im not talking about religion, or being religious, but believing in His word and applying it to your daily
life,
living it truly not by man's
principle, but by God's Word, putting faith in Him just as a mother would to a babysitter
who is going to look after her child, or just as you would trust someone with your money, or yet with your own
life.
Rather than waiting for a
life of achievement,
principles and values to become your reality, pursue this kind of
life by finding a mentor
who can lead you in its direction.
I honestly try to
live by the
principle that Harry Truman once said: «It is amazing what you can accomplish when you don't care
who gets the credit.»
He is part of a wider movement of conservative Christians
who are choosing to
live their
lives on the edge of society, unplugged from civilization as much as they can,
living under basic biblical
principles.
His Grace Bishop Angaelos added: «I am thankful that the visit was fruitful and gave His Holiness an overview of the diverse and dynamic role of Coptic Christians across Britain
who endeavour to
live faithfully according to their Christian
principles, while being fully integrated into their surrounding community.
Economist George Gilder,
who identifies himself as an evangelical Christian, has argued,» «Give and you'll be given unto» is the fundamental practical
principle of the Christian
life, and when there's no private property you can't give it because you don't own it....
On a personal note, I am very happy to write because we as a family have much to thank Dr. Abraham for - a man
who as a pastor to us
lived out the
principles that he teaches as a theological ethicist.
The
principles of academic freedom and of relative independence for education within the political structure do not exclude or excuse those
who teach from active participation in political
life.
I remember one of my teachers, Dr Don Burt,
who said that as we teach about spiritual
principles and spiritual healing that if issues in our own
lives don't come up we aren't teaching effectively.
In the long run the usefulness of his
principles and the test of that church will be the quality of Christian
life of those
who respond and are «enfolded» into the full and regular
life of the congregation.
As Seyyed Hossein Nasr writes, «For traditional man, Muslim or otherwise, that is a man whose
life and thought are molded by a set of
principles of transcendent origin and
who lives in a society in which these
principles are manifested in every sphere does not have cause to question the teaching of his religion.
Concluding our six - part series on the Spring Harvest 2005 theme, Steve Chalke focuses on the occasions when Daniel learned to compromise and others when he chose to stand his ground - vital
principles for you and me
who also
live in a an alien and sometimes hostile culture.
To this may be added the odd fact that the same people
who claim to be defenders of freedom want to forbid Christians, for example, to send their children to denominational schools or to
live according to their own moral
principles.
... Pope Benedict XVI,
who has indicated the hermeneutical
principle of reform within continuity... «wherever this interpretation guided the implementation of the Council, new
life developed and new fruit ripened» (Benedict XVI, Address to the Roman Curia, 22 December 2005).
And those
who do
live the
life of the community, seeking to appropriate for themselves its central affirmations, yet unconcerned about the peripheral, secondary, and now and again misleading assertions and practices that have often been associated with those essentials; those
who learn gradually to join in its prayers and receive the sacraments, and to read the Bible with open, earnest, yet critical minds; those
who endeavor with heart and soul to express in daily
life the Christian
principle of
life «in Christ» — such men and women will find increasingly that they genuinely belong.
They said they have made «a personal commitment to Jesus Christ that is still important in their
life today,» that their faith is very important in their
life today; believe that when they die they will go to Heaven because they have confessed their sins and accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior; strongly believe they have a personal responsibility to share their religious beliefs about Christ with non-Christians; firmly believe that Satan exists; strongly believe that eternal salvation is possible only through grace, not works; strong agree that Jesus Christ
lived a sinless
life on earth; strong assert that the Bible is accurate in all the
principles it teaches; and describe God as the all - knowing, all - powerful, perfect deity
who created the universe and still rules it today.
Is the church composed only of those
who call themselves Christians, or followers of Jesus, and
who accept a certain dogma; or does it consist of those
who dwell in the Spirit, by whatever religion or label they identify themselves, those
who live according to the
principle of love for one's fellow man, and of recognizing the holy spirit within each?
seem to want to mold public policy based on the rantings of fictional characters created by a hypocrite
who railed against socialist and collectivist
principles and then collected her Medicare and Social Security benefits later in
life, can we also consider alternatives?
1) those
who never heard of the Islamic
principles, perhaps because they were
living too far off 2) those
who where exposed to Islam with false claims about the religion (thus misleading them into like islamophobia),
Even if I learned that God really doesn't exist, I would still want to follow the basic
principles of trying to
live as a Christian because of the joy my actions bring to myself and others by always trying to put others first instead of being selfish and / or dishonest to get what I want like so many people
who have no faith choose to do,
It was an exercise in delusion, if not hypocrisy, because all that we said about equality,
life, liberty, public happiness, freedom, the right of assembly, participation, and the other noble
principles applied in fact only to the white man, not to the majority of persons in this country,
who at that time were red, or to a sizable minority
who were black and in chains.
You know, the guys in fiction (and in
life)
who can kick your tail seven ways but more violent - minded people wouldn't know it because these guys would rather let someone beat them up than to throw a punch and betray their
principles.
Is everyone
who says they are a christian really following God's laws, probably not, but for the most part I would say they are at least attempting to
live their
lives according to God's
principles.
In the sharing of Christian experience and mutual reinforcement in the faith the idea has affinities with the Methodist class meetings of an earlier day; and when the cell
principle is integrated sufficiently with the rest of
life, it reminds one of those early Christian groups
who «day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes,... partook of food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having favor with all the people.»
Religious thinkers, I believe, need to be more vocal in their support of those
who affirm the need for political and economic
life to be based on moral
principles.
Over the last decade, we've sold thousands of homes with the guiding
principle of producing value and breathing
life into each family that has crossed our path, and we do not, nor will we ever discriminate against people
who do not share our views.»
He defines the Church as Christ «existing as a commentary» and he understood it to be «a community and fellowship of faithful persons
who live according to the
principle of vicarious actions, i.e., an active «being for one another».
That is why, perhaps, it is impossible for Garrow to imagine a
principled opposition to the reformers whose
lives he chronicles,
who proceed as if an abortion were no more morally problematic than an appendectomy.
A Church of Scotland clergyman has said Christians
who vote no in the Scottish independence referendum are not «
living by [Christian]
principles».