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

Ron Edmondson

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. 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.).

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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. Entrepreneurs and executives know the feeling: Lying awake at night with worries barreling through their heads. He built walls, erected partitions, and hung blinds so that nobody could steal his ideas or sneak an early peek.

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The Nostalgia Trap

Harvard Business Review

While the innovations of the past 40 years have opened more opportunities for professionals and affluent entrepreneurs than they have closed off, that’s not the case for many working-class, small-town, and rural men and women. As for the people who actually provide those affordable consumer goods and services? In the U.S.,

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