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Get the Summary of Horst Schulze's Excellence Wins in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Horst Schulze knows how to win. In Excellence Wins, Schulze, in his absolute no-nonsense approach, shares the visionary and disruptive principles that have produced immense global successes over the course of his still-prolific 50-year career.
As the co-founder and former president of Ritz-Carlton Hotel...
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Premise: Are you hungry to develop a relationship with God? Are you hungry to hear God speak to you? Are you hungry to know God's callings? Are you hungry to respond to God's callings? Then this book is written for you. Throughout my years of teaching the Bible, I've taught to the "one". So, I'm writing to the one who has a hunger to understand the callings of God and to develop a great relationship with Him. From the time I gave my life to Jesus,...
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#1 We all get distracted from time to time. We must recognize the signs that we are becoming distracted, and then take action to fix it. We must be honest and admit that we had three distractions today, not just one.
#2 We all become distracted at some point. We become distracted from our goals and greater purposes by our temporary circumstances. We can be distracted...
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#1 If you can listen in this way, listen with ease and without strain, you will find a profound change taking place within you. This change comes without your volition or your asking.
#2 To listen is to hear what is being said and not to project your own desires and fears through which you hear only what you want to hear. To listen is to hear everything, including the...
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#1 The younger son went off and spent all his inheritance. Then a famine occurred, and he was forced to find a job to support himself. When he returned home, he found his father had sacrificed the grain-fed calf because his son was dead, but he had come back to life.
#2 The parable of the Prodigal Son is about a sinner repenting and God forgiving him, which is what many...
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#1 The writer of the book of Deuteronomy wants the reader to understand that Moses, the great leader of the Hebrews, the liberator who led his people out of slavery, the hero who defied Pharaoh, was also a man who could get it up. And that's why. He was in a new future. He was stepping out of the cycle. The writer of the book of Deuteronomy wanted the reader to understand...
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The best of the church are none too good for this work. Do not think because you have other service to do that therefore you should take no interest in this form of holy work, but kindly, according to your opportunities, stand ready to help the little ones, and to cheer those, whose chief calling is to attend to them.
To us all this message comes: "Feed My lambs!" To the minister, and to all who have any knowledge of the things of God, the commission...
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#1 The Buddhist poem, written several centuries ago, tries to find words for an intuition that is common to almost every culture in the world. It says that a man does not really begin to be alive until he has lost himself. This is the universal discovery that a man does not really begin to live until he has lost his life.
#2 There is a vital contradiction in the idea...
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#1 The most dangerous trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. When we believe the voices that call us worthless and unlovable, we find ourselves easily tempted by success, popularity, and power.
#2 The most dangerous trap in our lives is not success, but self-rejection. When we believe the voices that call us worthless and unlovable,...
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#1 The second half of the book ranges more widely over various topics that together inform and set the context of the biblical model of discipleship. Chapters 7, 8, and 12 were preached in Worcester College, Oxford, during the last two years of my chaplaincy there.
#2 The first half of the book is an invitation to do some homework. It grew out of my reading of the Bible,...
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#1 I had never been called into the exam room to help the medical team during an abortion, and I had no idea why I was needed now. I was director of this clinic in Bryan, Texas, and I was able to fill in for any position if I had to.
#2 I had performed diagnostic ultrasounds for clients before, but never for a abortion. I was horrified to see the image of the fetus on...
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#1 The distance between a Zen Master in the Far East and a Christian spiritual director in the West might seem wide, but it points to the wisdom we need to live the questions of our lives, both alone and in community.
#2 To seek spiritual direction, for me, means to ask the big questions, the fundamental questions, and the universal ones in a supportive community. Out...
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#1 The parable of the two brothers is about two groups of people: the younger brother, who leaves home to follow Jesus, and the elder brother, who stays home and follows the traditional morality of his family and community.
#2 The parable of the two brothers demonstrates the destructive self-centeredness of the younger brother, but it also condemns the elder brother's...
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#1 German theology has produced the most accurate and thorough critical analysis of the life of Jesus, and it has laid the groundwork for future religious thinking. It has not yet reconciled history and modern thought, but it has opened up a new path for the world.
#2 Early Christianity was right to live entirely in the future with the Christ who was to come, and it...
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#1 The Greek word for saint is hagios, and it refers not to one's character but to a state of being. Every believer is a saint, even the most ordinary and the most immature.
#2 Every true believer is a saint, set apart by God. The biblical meaning of the word saint is someone who has been purchased by Christ with His own blood and has been separated unto God to be transformed...
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#1 I had a personal encounter with Yeshua when I was eighteen. He said, Many are called, but few are chosen. I knew what he meant, but I needed to ask if I was chosen. I was overwhelmed by the peace and presence of God, and I felt as if I were in a state of euphoria.
#2 The Messiah is a powerful, prophetic portrait of the person and work of Jesus, the Messiah. He has a human nature,...
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#1 The story of the patriarchs takes up the final thirty-nine chapters of Genesis and covers the entire geographical spectrum of the ancient Near East. However, there are numerous candidates for Mount Sinai, and many theories about which path the Israelites took through the Sinai.
#2 The goal of our journey was to place the Bible's stories in the historical and cultural...
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#1 When the Spirit of the Lord is upon us, we impart not words, but life. Words are only used to understand what the Word is, but the Word is actually life-giving. When we are filled with the Spirit, we are imparting life.
#2 Water baptism is the third step in the process of being filled with the Holy Spirit. It is the desire of God that you be so immersed and covered...
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#1 The Lord, who is my Shepherd, is God the author, God the artisan, and God the agent who presents these facts to both my mind and my spiritual understanding so that they become real and relative to me as an individual.
#2 I am essentially bound to admit that Christ's ownership of me as a human being is legitimate. I belong to him simply because he deliberately chose...
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