As I was reading Good to Great, I quickly realized that I needed to change my perspective with which I was interpreting what I was reading. At this point in my life I am primarily a student, and I am studying technology, not business. My perspective as I began to read Good to Great was that of the idea that this didn’t apply to me now, and might not for quite a while. I realized that for me to gather useful information from the reading that was applicable to me now, I needed to change my perspective to the idea that I could apply what was reading about business and businessmen to my own life as a student. I’ve chosen two topics that the book covered in terms of business and I will discuss them and give an example of how they apply to my life. The topics are facts and faith, and continual improvement.
The first topic on which I would like to reflect is that of facts and faith. In the Latter Day Saint culture, sometimes we do not associate those two words together often and may view them as differing perspectives and even opposites. Alma said that “faith is not to have a perfect knowledge of things” (Alma 32:21, Book of Mormon). The definition of fact from the …show more content…
In fact, it is the first principle of the Gospel, without it the rest of the Gospel would not work. Faith is how any individual starts out on their journey back towards Heavenly Father. But, just as Alma likens it, faith is like a seed. It is planted in a sure foundation and nurtured. It eventually grows and can be as satisfying as any known fact. Faith can also be planted in foundations that are not sure. It can give false hope and eventually die, leaving the faithful individual hanging. We must be sure to not only have faith, but to plant our faith in foundations based on facts. No matter how brutal those facts may be. To ignore the brutal facts is to put faith in something other than reality, which can be worse than not having faith at
The first topic on which I would like to reflect is that of facts and faith. In the Latter Day Saint culture, sometimes we do not associate those two words together often and may view them as differing perspectives and even opposites. Alma said that “faith is not to have a perfect knowledge of things” (Alma 32:21, Book of Mormon). The definition of fact from the …show more content…
In fact, it is the first principle of the Gospel, without it the rest of the Gospel would not work. Faith is how any individual starts out on their journey back towards Heavenly Father. But, just as Alma likens it, faith is like a seed. It is planted in a sure foundation and nurtured. It eventually grows and can be as satisfying as any known fact. Faith can also be planted in foundations that are not sure. It can give false hope and eventually die, leaving the faithful individual hanging. We must be sure to not only have faith, but to plant our faith in foundations based on facts. No matter how brutal those facts may be. To ignore the brutal facts is to put faith in something other than reality, which can be worse than not having faith at