Continuous Learning, Continuous Transformation.
Checklists can help experts remember how to manage a complex process or configure a complex machine. They can make priorities clearer and prompt people to function better as a team. By themselves, however, checklists cannot make anyone follow them.
Intercession is the constant hitting 'refresh' of our justification in the court of heaven.
People in Christ, whether they struggle with alcohol, gossip, or conceit (we all struggle with something awful), are no longer properly called sinners. We still sin, of course, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t saints.
Neurons that fire together wire together.
A worker must win the hearts and affections of the people before he can do any effective work.
Mom said that anyone critical of her driving could help with the task. Now that we had a car, she continued, we could leave the next morning.
Radical open-mindedness is motivated by the genuine worry that you might not be seeing your choices optimally. It is the ability to effectively explore different points of view and different possibilities without letting your ego or your blind spots get in your way.
Jonathan’s group succeeds not because its members are smarter but because they are safer.
Leaving the Upper Room always means entering the Lower Room, trying once again to manage the difficulties of life, and every day becoming less and less substantial— more of a ghost than a solid person.
Stay flexible. In a fast-changing environment, objectives can stop being relevant, so it should always be easy to modify them, together with the key results.