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Pat Riley on Unity

Pat Riley, super-successful professional basketball coach, once said of his strategy ?The ultimate goal is not to win. That?s the big misconception. The ultimate goal is to become a team. If that?s your final destination, the winning and recognition will follow you.? (Robb Report, p. 77)

Work and Contentedness

Benjamin Franklin, while working to build forts, observed, ??When Men are employ?d they are best contented. For on the Days they work?d they were good-natur?d and cheerful; and with the consciousness of having done a good Day?s work they spent the Evenings jollily; but on the idle Days they were mutinous and quarrelsome, finding fault with their Pork, the Bread, etc., and in continual ill-humor?.? (Autobiography, p. 165) ? Copyright 2002 Steve Miller - All Rights Reserved

Tick and Dog Relationships

Most people are into relationships for what they can get, not to what they can give. Thus, some couples have a relationship like a tick and a dog. But imagine the problems when the relationship is between two ticks. True love is in a relationship for what it can give, not get.

Spiritual Life Helps Marriage

About 4 in 10 first marriages in American end in divorce. But a 1986 publication claims that among couples who marry in the church and continue to attend church regularly, the divorce rate is one out of fifty. Add to the church attendance a prayer life at home and the rate becomes one in 1,105! Truly, couples that pray together, stay together!

Carnegie on Teamwork

Andrew Carnegie believed his greatest strength in building US Steel was in hiring those people who not only would get the job done, but would work in perfect harmony together with a shared sense of mission. This "almost miraculous power unleashed when two or more people are working together in harmony toward a common goal," he called the "mastermind alliance." (Bottom Line, 3/92)

Getting Along With People

?According to a report by the American Management Association, an overwhelming majority of the two hundred managers who participated in a survey agreed that the most important single skill of an executive is his ability to get along with people. In the survey, management rated this ability more vital than intelligence, decisiveness, knowledge, or job skills.? (The Making of a Christian Leader)

Why Smart People Fail

In the book, ?When Smart People Fail,? the authors narrowed down six of the most common reasons that people suffered major career defeats. One of these major reasons was, ?lack of social skills.? According to the authors, ?you may get along on brilliance alone for a while, but most careers involve other people.? And if people don?t like you, they can help you fail. They tell the story of a well-dressed businessman who gave a sound verbal thrashing to the porter who was handling his luggage. But an observer was amazed that as the businessman continued to rail, the porter accepted the abuse calmly. So after the businessman left, the observer praised the porter for his restraint. ?Oh, that?s nothing,? he replied. ?You know, that man?s going to Miami, but his bags ? they?re going to Kalamazoo.? (?Why Smart People Fail,? in Reader?s Digest, condensed from When Smart People Fail, by Hyatt and Gottlieb, Simon and Schuster, NY, 1987)

To Live Below With The Saints We Know...

?To live above with the saints we love, that is glory. To live below with the saints we know, that?s another story.?

Listening, Titanic and Pearl Harbor

"The sinking of the Titanic and the attack on Pearl Harbor are tragedies that might have been avoided - if people had listened." (Tell it Often, McCloskey, p. 243)

Iacocca on Making Deals

"I never made a deal in my life that had any lasting value unless the other guy felt he had won a little, too." (Lee Iacocca, in Newsweek, Dec. '85)

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