Mormons do it best

Mormon church leaders and businessmen embrace the idea that there’s relationship between the missionary experience and success in business. For 2 years, missionaries spend 10 hours a day, 6 days a week, knocking on doors and offering The Book of Mormon to strangers often in a language missionaries barely speak. They must persuade people to listen in the face of near-constant rejection. Also, missionaries in witnessing extreme poverty, may understand that they need to take responsibility for their futures.

On Business: When you get into business, most of what you try doesn’t work either. And so the notion of having focus and determination, working hard, and leading others are all things you would look for in a corporate executive vs. someone who closes his tent after one little disappointment.

On running meetings from Mormon church experience: You learn by experience that it’s better to have an agenda, have a plan, have a structure, have people participate, and if you have to discipline somebody, you learn to do that in private.

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