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From Street Sweepers to Google

Reprinted from ThinkWay Strategies with minor edits… “If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great […]

The Basic Need for Purpose in Work

Reprinted from ThinkWay Strategies… The story is told1 that in 1944 Allied forces bombed and destroyed a prison camp factory in Hungary that was distilling human waste into alcohol to help fuel Hitler’s war effort. For the prisoners, mild relief turned to disgust at the thought of rebuilding the camp when the guards forced them to […]

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Lego: Understanding The Purpose of Business & Work

Reprinted from ThinkWay Strategies…   “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein –   Around the turn of the century, Lego was in trouble. They had lost their way. Revenue and earnings looked like this:   Through a series of events which reconnected them with […]