Stories for Work – The Essential Guide to Business

To keep with the theme of the I Power Ideas site, this will not be an in-depth review but rather selecting highlights to pique your interest in the book to go pick it up and read and understand the concepts in more detail.

 

When things go badly, those who survive move away from the emotion of fear and towards a state of resolve.

 

Growth mindset.

 

Humor and laughter.

 

Be creative.

 

When we give greater autonomy, responsibility, trust, and unconditional support, they make more conscious decisions.

 

Old school pen and paper slows us down to process and be more mindful.

 

Car and Driver test showed 6x longer to react when reading or texting.

 

Martin Luther King, “If you can’t be the sun, be a star. It isn’t by size that you win or you fail. Be the best at whatever you are.”

 

“Nourish our people first – put teams first, will go to great places.”

 

 

 

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Here are our takeaways and thoughts - pause and reflect, then nourish and grow!

A quote that resonated was this quote from Martin Luther King, “If you can’t be the sun, be a star. It isn’t by size that you win or you fail. Be the best at whatever you are.”

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