In more than fifty years of consulting, Peter Drucker pointed out that he never found a “natural,” someone who is instinctively effective. Every effective person he encountered—and as perhaps the greatest consultant and business thinker of the twentieth century, that’s a lot—had to work at becoming effective.
—Matt Perman
HT: What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done by Matt Perman
Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
—Exodus 20:8-11 NIV
Most of us haven’t paid sufficient attention to the skill of defining our work clearly. This is why it so often feels like our workdays never stop. When you don’t have your work clearly defined, there can never be any finish point.
—Matt Perman
HT: What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done by Matt Perman
You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.
—Exodus 20:7 NIV
The knowledge worker cannot be supervised closely or in detail. He can only be helped. But he must direct himself, and he must direct himself toward performance and contribution, that is, effectiveness.
—Peter Drucker
HT: What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done by Matt Perman
You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.
—Exodus 20:4 NIV
If only every Christian in the Church today were living the Sermon on the Mount, the great revival for which we are praying and longing would already have started.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
HT: What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done by Matt Perman
You shall have no other gods before me.
—Exodus 20:3 NIV
Generosity is at the heart of true productivity in all areas of life. This is what the Scriptures teach and, interestingly, what the best business thinkers are also showing. Further, a life of doing good for others is actually the most exciting life, for God calls us to find ways of doing good with a sense of creativity, competence, and adventure.
—Matt Perman
HT: What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done by Matt Perman
The Lord reigns
for ever and ever.
—Exodus 15:18 NIV
