My friend, Sean Kouplen, recently released a new book called 94X with a simple concept. The average employee spends 160 hours in the workplace each month, while the average American only spends 1.7 hours a month in church. Sean realized that when you do the math, 160 hours divided by 1.7 hours, employers have the attention of their employees 94 ...
Multitasking is a badge of honor for many. But according to Earl Miller, a neuroscience professor at MIT, “You can’t multitask.” Our brains are hard-wired to only do one cognitively demanding activity at a time. In a Wall Street Journal article, Miller says what we actually are doing is task-shifting, jumping from one task to another. In fact, juggling tasks ...
Recently, Bud Light experimented and embraced the “woke” agenda in their controversial ad with transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney. Their decision didn’t go well for their beer sales. Considering the point of advertising is to increase sales, the fact that Bud Light sales decreased over 20% for weeks afterwards, doesn’t bode well for their experiment. Bud Light should have known their ...
When I was a child, our local shopping center, Truman Corners, creatively advertised a ping pong ball drop. A helicopter was scheduled to drop ping pong balls into the parking lot. The ping pong balls would be marked with potential prizes. This creative idea filled the parking lot with thousands of people chasing bouncing ping pong balls. The individual ...
A CEO I worked for early in my career became furious with one of his family members. Rather than working through the anger, this CEO fired his relative without processing the ramifications. He may have had good reason for his anger, but his approach had a lasting impact on his family. Their family was splintered and estranged for many years. ...
As we celebrate Memorial Day, I’m reminded of the end of the movie, Saving Private Ryan. Private Ryan is in a cemetery reflecting on the men who died in World War II due to their mission of retrieving him from combat. Private Ryan wrestles with how well he lived out his life after the war. He struggled with knowing ...
Shortly before one of our Summit speakers was scheduled to speak, I learned that he had acquired food poisoning. When I checked on him, he was doubled over in pain and looked gaunt. It seemed impossible for him to go on stage. But we gathered a team of people and began praying. Moments later he delivered a very focused, powerful ...
If you had known me when I was working construction during college, you would have experienced a very different person. At that stage in my life, my language was filthy, I drank heavily, I was a thief, and women were not treated respectfully. In my early 30s, when God finally captured my heart, I had to begin killing off my ...
Sportswriter, Terry Pluto, interviewed Pastor Chuck Myricks about his tips for living out your faith at work. Our last tip of Pastor Myricks is to get to know people as people. Pastor Myricks points out that everyone experiences trials. It may be a sickness or a family member’s death. During these times, a kind word or even a prayer are ...
Sportswriter, Terry Pluto, interviewed Pastor Chuck Myricks about his tips for living out your faith at work. Pastor Myricks’ sales experience at IBM and Word Records provided him with wisdom worth sharing. One of Pastor Myricks’ tips is to be a good teammate. There are times when your teammates need help. You need to be considered a team player. You’re ...
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