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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Rob Bell’s The Heretic

Joseph Lalonde

Watching Rob Bell, Pete Holmes, Kristen Bell, Elizabeth Gilbert (of Eat, Pray, Love fame), and others share their thoughts on faith and Bell’s journey was interesting. This seemed to be the general consensus from those I watched the movie with as well. Elizabeth Gilbert: You can’t be soulless and have a life of any meaning.

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Negotiating Innovation and Control

Harvard Business Review

No one would ever say it that way, but it clearly explained why even seemingly simple decisions required consensus and multiple rounds of meetings. There is an interesting idea coming out of the work my colleague Clark Gilbert is doing to transform the Deseret News and Deseret Digital (both owned by the Mormon Church).

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How Will You Measure Your Company's Life?

Harvard Business Review

These concepts will be explained in more detail in a fall Harvard Business Review article written by my colleagues Matt Eyring, Clark Gilbert, and Dick Foster.). The group quickly came to consensus that corporate longevity and employee satisfaction were critically important to them. Environmental impact. Short-term profits.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

b Between 1920 and 1930, for example, 87 percent of Broadway shows flopped despite being attached to big names like Rogers and Hammerstein, or Gilbert and Sullivan. That’s how groups become mired in consensus, and after a while, everyone thinks and acts alike.

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There's No Formula for Fixing Detroit, and That's a Good Thing

Harvard Business Review

and the general consensus was that no, the huge inflow of federal money and artsy types from all over that converted the once-depressed German capital into a global hotspot was not going to be replicated in Detroit — although a few artsy types were already there and some federal money sure would be nice. Entrepreneurs.