Monday, Jan 29
“The Mormon Way of Doing Business: Leadership and Success Through Faith and Family” (Warner, $25.99) is by Jeff Benedict, a lawyer, author and journalist who lives in Connecticut and ran for Congress in 2002.
The Mormon Way
Dave writes: “The book is a collection of comments and personal experiences related by eight LDS business leaders: five CEOs, a CFO, a business school dean, and a professor/consultant. But the book isn’t structured as a series of biographical essays. It is organized topically, with chapters explaining how the Mormon beliefs and experience of these executives gave them the tools to succeed. More than that: how they managed to successfully balance their professional, church, and family responsibilities so ably. The chapters have titles like “On a Mission” (relating the LDS mission experience to readers, many of whom will not be LDS); “The Road Less Travelled” (about why these executives accept busy church callings despite their weighty professional duties); and “First Things First” (time management secrets to make it all work out).”
Dave goes on to say he finds the chapters after the first 11 most useful for the LDS readers — seeing how LDS CEOs managed September 11th and its aftermath.
Mongolia: Stories from John Groberg
Jeff Lindsay of the blog Mormanity writes that Anytime, Anywhere “is an inspiring book… …Among his many stories of experiences around the world as a General Authority are several stories from Mongolia. Since the Appleton, Wisconsin area has been blessed by a couple of faithful missionaries who came from Mongolia, I was especially intrigued by some of Elder Groberg’s experiences about bringing missionary work to the wonderful land.”
Lindsay goes on to summaries Elder Groberg’s experience resolving a missionary visa problem in Mongolia.
Press Release
BYU Religious Studies Center
Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History:
Ohio and Upper Canada
Edited by Guy L. Dorius, Craig K. Manscill,
and Craig James Ostler
Ohio became the first gathering place for the Saints in this dispensation when the Lord declared, “A commandment I give unto the church, that it is expedient in me that they should assemble together at the Ohio” (D&C 37:3).
