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By Owen Phelps, Ph.D. Most likely we’ve all heard the adage that “Assume makes an ass out of u and me.” And most likely we’ve heard it again and again because it’s so true. I had that brought home to me in a truly humbling way recently when I was watching an episo...

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A Lead Like Jesus Encounter is underway this week at the Winnebago County Jail in Rockford, IL, sponsored by the Yeshua Catholic International Leadership Institute, and three public Catholic Vision for Leading Like Jesus Encounters will be offered later this month in central Iowa. The ecumenical ...

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By Owen Phelps, Ph.D. We’re all familiar with a host of theories about what drives better performance among individuals and in organizations. On a galley slave ship the drivers were big brutes with whips. In wars you had the threats of a firing squad. My parents tried to motivate ...

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This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24 By Owen Phelps, Ph.D. In The Catholic Vision for Leading Like Jesus, we recommend that people who want to lead like Jesus should pray regularly. Often when we think of prayer, we leap quickly to the notion of...

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By Chris D’Souza And he said to them, “Is a lamp brought in to be put under a bushel, or under a bed, and not on a stand? For there is nothing hid, except to be made manifest; nor is anything secret, except to come to light. If any man has ears to hear, let him hear.”&...

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Catholic Vision for Leading Like Jesus Encounters will be offered this month at the Prairiewoods Spirituality Center in Hiawatha, IA, just north of Cedar Rapids, where participants have three choices of dates and times: Tuesdays, Feb. 21 and 28, 6-9 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 23, 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m...

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The Yeshua Institute’s newest video, Time Alone: Jesus Needed It and So Do We, marks the first presentation by Carl Koch, DA, author of 36 books and a Fellow of the Institute. “We’re delighted to have Dr. Koch providing us with video presentations,” said Owen Phelps, Ph.D....

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A new study from Maurice Schweitzer, Wharton professor of operations, information and decisions, and Wharton lecturer and research scholar Jeremy Yip shows that anger can influence people in organizations to lie or behave deceptively in areas that have nothing to do with the original conflict. Th...

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Stephanie Scotti says that when it comes to persuasive communications, Aristotle was right – as far as he went almost two millennia ago. The Greek philosopher said there were three principles of persuasive communication: Logos -- presenting a clear and rational argument; Pathos -- u...

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People who would like to participate in a Catholic Vision for Leading Like Jesus Encounter  may want to travel to the Prairiewoods Spirituality Center in Hiawatha, IA, just north of Cedar Rapids, where they have three choices of dates and times: Tuesdays, Feb. 21 and 28, 6-9 p.m. Thursd...

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