Best Advice?
Posted by Bryan
Fortune Magazine shares the best advice ever given to leaders of finance, entertainment, technology, and military.
There are many good and some not-so-good nuggets of counsel in the collection. Here's a couple gems:
- "Always assume positive intent." - Indra Nooyi (Pepsico CEO) This is biblical, by the way.
- "In order to do something well, you have to keep practicing and preparing." - Eddie Lampert (Sears Holdings CEO) - This is why we worship!
- "Don't panic." - Elon Musk (SPACEX CEO) This is biblical, too.
- "Don't follow the pack." - Eileen Collins (Space Shuttle Commander). Surprise! This, too, is biblical advice!
Be sure to read the comments where other (non-Fortune-worthy) people share the best advice given to them.
Here's a couple highlights from this growing archive...
- Don't be an idiot. Best advice Michael ever gave me. Whenever I'm about to do something I think, "whould and idiot do that?" And if they would, I do not do that thing. (Dwight K. Shrute, Scranton, PA)
- Don't hurt nobody who don't need hurtin' (K, Edison,NJ)
- Work like it depends on you, and pray like it depends on God! (T. Miller, Findlay, OH)
I think I'm too young to say what the best advice I've ever gotten has been, but all you have to do is read my previous two posts to see what would have to rank up at the top. Here are a few other pieces of wisdom that have guided me well so far:
- Be biblical. God cares.
- You are never more like Christ than when you are being nailed to a cross by people you love.
- Forgive as you have been forgiven
- Put Christ first. There's a bigger gap between first and second and second and last.
- Love is a discipline. Be disciplined in love.
- Parenting is hard work. Wake up every day committed to doing your job as a dad
- Seek to understand before you are understood
- Do not strive to be spectacular; strive to be faithful.
- God never obligates himself to bless anything you do from your own resources or initiative.
- You aren't God. Be glad about that. God, though, is God. Be even more glad about that!
- If you want to be happy, take your attention off yourself, put it upon God and serve others.
- Love your wife every day in a way that shows you are thankful she's given herself completely to a guy like you.
And to close, consider this:
Do not like good advice so much that you frame it and hang it on a wall rather than putting it to good use.
What's the best advice you've received?
May 20, 2008 7:49 AM
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