article thumbnail

Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom

Joseph Lalonde

Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom takes place before Indiana Jones And The Raiders Of The Lost Ark. The second film in the Indiana Jones series is actually a prequel. That’s right! Did you know that? I didn’t until I began researching the film to write this article.

Arkes 275
article thumbnail

Leadership Insights: Interview With Mark Sanborn Author Of The Fred Factor

Joseph Lalonde

M ark Sanborn, author of Fred Factor and Fred Factor 2.0 along with 6 other titles), is a powerful force in the leadership world. He’s the president of Sanborn & Associates, authority on leadership, and a great public speaker. Mark graciously gave a few minutes of his day to answer a couple of burning leadership questions I had. In the following interview with Mark, I asked: Mark, you’ve written quite a few books. Two of your books focus on a man named Fred.

Arkes 222
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

4 Illustrations of Faith in Practice…

Ron Edmondson

Illustration One: “Make yourself an ark of gofer wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and outside. And Noah did this. He did everything that God had commanded him. Genesis 6:14, 22 HCSB). Illustration Two: The Lord said to Abram: Go out from your land, your relatives, and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was 75 years old when he left Haran. Genesis 12:1, 4 HCSB).

Arkes 56
article thumbnail

GC24: Killer Gamification: Engaging for Impact

Engaging Leader

The term “gamification” gained popularity in 2010; by the end of 2012, it had reached mega-trend status. For decades, video games had demonstrated phenomenal power in engaging the focus of people of all ages. Now, businesses were using gamification, which we define as game-inspired tactics to engage people, often with similarly powerful results. However, the […]. The post GC24: Killer Gamification: Engaging for Impact appeared first on Engaging Leader.

article thumbnail

Arc is Electrifying Green Building

Chart Your Course

The Arc platform is not Noah’s ark, the vessel in the Old Testament that saves Noah’s family and the world’s animals from the planetary engulfing flood, but it may only be a modest overstatement to analogize Arc scored existing green buildings saving life as we know it. Next week will be a year since the launch of Arc.

Course 170
article thumbnail

Leadership in Sustainability

Coaching Tip

and Mars Petcare''s pet food manufacturing facility in Fort Smith, Ark. "We''re Mars Chocolate North America announced that its new manufacturing facility in Topeka, Kan., has earned LEED ® Gold certification —an internationally accepted benchmark for designing, constructing and operating green buildings—from the U.S. Green Building Council. The roughly 500,000-square-foot facility, which opened in March, produces M&M''S ® Brand Candies and SNICKERS ® Bars.

Arkes 91
article thumbnail

OSHA to Retailers: Make Black Friday Safer for Workers

HR Digest

22, 2018 in Bentonville, Ark. Is a $20 Black Friday bargain worth trampling a worker who earns $9 an hour? In 2008, at a Long Island Wal-Mart, over 2,000 people trampled into the store five minutes before it was scheduled to open. The crowd pushed it open, knocking the doors off their hinges and blasting it apart. The employees all of a sudden had to form a human chain to slow down the crowd that kept pouring. Eventually, the crowd ended up trampling a 34-year-old temporary employee.

Arkes 57
article thumbnail

Leadership Inspirations – Prior Preparation

Strategy Driven

“It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.” ” Howard Ruff. 1930 – present). American financial advisor. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership. Start your FREE trial membership * and receive: FULL ACCESS to StrategyDriven’s premium content for 14 days. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Free 14 day trial included with a monthly membership registration.

Arkes 50
article thumbnail

10 Leadership Lessons And Quotes From 10 Cloverfield Lane

Joseph Lalonde

Howard : Crazy is building your ark after the has already come. A fter a terrifying accident, a young woman wakes up shackled to a pipe in a basement. Enter John Goodman as Howard who proceeds to tell her of what happened to the outside world. A bombing. Alien invasion. Who knows what really happens but he claims the outside world has been wiped out and he’s here to protect Michelle and Emmett. Thus begins 10 Cloverfield Lane, the follow-up to JJ Abrams shaky-cam flick Cloverfield.

Arkes 140
article thumbnail

7 Excuses for Not Doing What God has Called Us To Do

Ron Edmondson

Do you think Noah knew how to build a boat the size of an ark? There’s always an excuse if we’re looking for one. I’ve made so many excuses in my life. For years I may have sensed God was calling me into vocational ministry, but I knew I had to provide for my family. Also, I would be leading with the limps of previous failures – how and why would God use me? I didn’t have the most pastoral qualities either.

Arkes 49
article thumbnail

7 Things To Do While You are Waiting on God

Ron Edmondson

Think of Noah and the many days he must have worked on the ark, yet he had apparently never seen rain. I’ve spent much of my walk with God waiting. Waiting for Him to give direction. Waiting on Him to open doors. Waiting on Him to make things clearer. Waiting on Him to supply the needed resources. Throughout the stories of the Bible we often find God’s people waiting. Think of Abraham who had to wait years for God to provide the promised son.

article thumbnail

How I Made the Transition from the Corporate World To Ministry World

Ron Edmondson

You can look up the reference, but basically God told priests carrying the ark of God to cross a body of water, but God made the priests get in the water before He parted the water.). It’s probably the question I get asked most often. I got it last week from a man who is a practicing CPA and a successful entrepreneur, but feels something is missing in his life. He’s highly skilled in the corporate world, but has always felt this certain calling to full-time vocational ministry.

Arkes 49
article thumbnail

3 Ways To Energize Your Recruitment Plan

Tim Milburn

Noah’s Ark was built by volunteers; the Titanic was built by professionals.”. “Don’t ever question the value of volunteers. Dave Gynn, Coleman Professional Services. If you’ve recently been selected to serve in a student leadership position… Congratulations! Now it’s time to get to work. One of the chief characteristics of a student leader is the knack to get others involved. A student leader manages tasks and leads people.

article thumbnail

7 Common Excuses for Not Doing What We Know God has Called Us To Do

Ron Edmondson

Do you think Noah knew how to build a boat the size of an ark? There’s always an excuse if we’re looking for one. I’ve made so many excuses in my life. For years I may have sensed God was calling me into vocational ministry, but I had to provide for my family. I would be leading with the limps of previous failures – how and why would God use me? I didn’t have the most pastoral qualities either.

article thumbnail

Why Seclusion Is the Enemy of Creativity

Harvard Business Review

He spent eleven years holed up, painting Christ on Judgement Day, Noah’s ark, and Creation itself. Michael SnellE/Getty Images. In 1545, Jacopo da Pontormo scored a major commission from Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici to paint the main chapel of Florence’s church of San Lorenzo. A contemporary of masters like Michelangelo, Pontormo was a distinguished but aging artist who was eager to secure his legacy.

Arkes 11
article thumbnail

Manage Risk Like a Royal Marine

Harvard Business Review

In the dark of night, Corporal Mike Stevenson leads his section of seven heavily-armed Royal Marines across the deck of HMS Ark Royal toward the waiting Sea King helicopter. It is March 20, 2003, a few miles off the coast of Iraq's Al Faw Peninsula. On the horizon, he can see fires erupting, and overhead, the afterburners of Patriot and Tomahawk missiles. In a few minutes, the Royal Marines will commence the mission for which they have spent months planning and preparing.

Arkes 15
article thumbnail

Manage Risk Like a Royal Marine

Harvard Business Review

In the dark of night, Corporal Mike Stevenson leads his section of seven heavily-armed Royal Marines across the deck of HMS Ark Royal toward the waiting Sea King helicopter. It is March 20, 2003, a few miles off the coast of Iraq's Al Faw Peninsula. On the horizon, he can see fires erupting, and overhead, the afterburners of Patriot and Tomahawk missiles. In a few minutes, the Royal Marines will commence the mission for which they have spent months planning and preparing.

Arkes 15
article thumbnail

When Talent Started Driving Economic Growth

Harvard Business Review

before overhead and marketing and distribution costs) of his next project, the 1981 blockbuster Raiders of the Lost Ark , in exchange for directing and producing the movie, which made him a multi-billionaire and changed the balance of power between stars and studios. I came out of a standard Keynesian economics education at Harvard College in 1979.

LBO 8
article thumbnail

Your New Hit Product Might Be Underpriced

Harvard Business Review

But in 2003, the company didn’t realize the mega hit it was about to have with the Noah’s Ark play set. The odds are stacked against new products or services. Between 65% and 75% miss their revenue or profit goals, depending on whose research you look at. We have diagnosed thousands of product failures over the last 30 years, and have found recurring patterns. Often new products are over-engineered with too many features, usually at too high a price.

Arkes 8
article thumbnail

The Nostalgia Trap

Harvard Business Review

” Besides, “there’s basically no country in the world where the consumer is not doing well,” added Bart van Ark, chief economist at The Conference Board. tim evans for hbr. Few people today call a doctor when they feel a bout of nostalgia coming on. But for 200 years, nostalgia was considered a dangerous disease that could trigger delusions, despair, and even death.

Arkes 10