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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 Jesus was a Jew, and his Jewishness is a historical fact. But is it important. To answer this question, we must recognize that Jesus lived in a Jewish context, and that his words and actions were directed toward a Jewish audience.
#2 The history of Christianity reveals multiple responses to Jesus' words and actions. Some believed that he was speaking symbolically,...
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#1 Women are God's idea. He created Adam first, but quickly realized that he needed a helper, so He took a rib from Adam's side and created Eve out of it.
#2 The offspring of Eve is Jesus Christ, who defeated Satan by taking away his authority. God will meet you where you are and help you get to where you need to be.
#3 Demographers estimate that 126 million women are...
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Cada día que pasa podemos ver cómo el matrimonio parece haber quedado en el olvido. Podemos preguntarnos una y mil veces por qué ya no resulta como la época de nuestros abuelos, bisabuelos o quizás nuestros padres, cuando se casaban para toda la vida. ¿Qué ha pasado? ¿Hemos hecho algo mal?
El matrimonio es la primera institución que Dios creó, inclusive antes que la iglesia misma, y tiene la misma antigüedad que tiene la humanidad. La vigencia...
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#1 The supernatural is not a limited experience for Christians, because our God is supernatural and has no limits. It is normal for Christians to see and experience angels and demons, visions and dreams from God, and a variety of miracles.
#2 When non-Christians experience the supernatural, it creates a hunger in them to know more. They do not know how to discern or...
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#1 The enemy's most deadly and deceptive trap is the offense trap. It severs relationships, widens the existing breaches between us, and handicaps us from fulfilling our full potential.
#2 The Greek word skand-alon, which is used to describe the offense of Luke 17:1, originally referred to the part of the trap to which the bait was attached. It is used in the New Testament...
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#1 There are many things that resist hurriedness. Like quicksand, they are called non-Newtonian materials. If you try to run your fingers through a non-Newtonian fluid, the substance becomes hard and almost like a solid, but if you move your fingers slowly through it, the material yields effortlessly.
#2 Mister Rogers knew how hurried children are in all aspects of their...
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#1 The Holy Spirit is a person, and His personhood is emphasized in John 16, when eleven times in eight verses, He is referred to by the personal, masculine pronouns He, Him, and His.
#2 The names given to the Holy Spirit reveal another aspect of His beautiful character. He is the Helper, Comforter, Advocate, Intercessor, Counselor, Strengthener, and Standby.
#3 The...
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#1 There is a desperate need for the Holy Spirit in the church, but many people do not connect that need with a particular need for the Spirit. We must examine ourselves and make sure we are open to the Spirit's work in us.
#2 We need to reexamine our faith, and how we think about and relate to the Holy Spirit. We don't live like we need the Holy Spirit, and we don't...
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#1 The initial objective of Jesus' plan was to enlist men who could bear witness to his life and carry on his work after he returned to the Father. He chose John, Andrew, Philip, Nathanael, James, and Matthew to be his first disciples.
#2 The Twelve Apostles were simple men who were chosen by the Lord to be his assistants. They were not key figures in the synagogue,...
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#1 Some things that happened in that church make more sense now, and some things I'm still sorting out. It takes a while. I'm scared because I think that I may never get better. But then I remember that other people have left that church and are doing great now.
#2 Leaving your religion is like the end of a marriage. The symptoms of separation are similar -...
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#1 Mary-Ann's story is achingly poignant, and her narrative will not only unravel her past but provide unique insight into the hearts and minds of Hutterite people.
#2 The Hutterite faith was born in the sixteenth century when Jacob Hutter, an Austrian hatmaker, led a group of Anabaptists to a new kind of Christian community. They sold everything they had and shared...
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#1 When we come to God confessing our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. We must allow God to wipe our slate clean by confessing our sins and receiving a new start.
#2 The road to Rome is long, and it is full of wrong turns and dead ends. But it is also the only way to reach God. Follow Jesus as the only way...
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#1 The song Anything Goes by Cole Porter is a perfect example of how the moral relativism that has infected our culture has led to the West on the brink of spiritual collapse.
#2 Porter was a prime example of how the culture in America has become extremely decadent. He was extremely alone at the end, and he never found the strength that came from faith in God.
#3 The...
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No one could ever imagine Gods perfect holiness, for we cannot call Him holy, we must call Him holy, holy, holy. He is the designer of the universe. His almighty magnificence is well beyond our imagination. We are not capable of realizing how mightily He loves us. A love so beautiful and perfect we could never understand. We have tried to capture a tiny bit of His glory in the bits and pieces of the knowledge He has given us. You will want to leave...
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#1 To read today's scripture is to read the words of a man who, in the innermost part of his being, believed in the steady hand of a good God. He was protected by God's strength, preserved by God's love. He lived beneath the shadow of God's wings.
#2 With Christ's resurrection, he poleaxed the devil and turned every grave into short-term housing. Heaven's angels were ready to celebrate,...
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#1 I am a private detective. For the past seven years, cases involving the FLDS Church, and its pedophile prophet have consumed most of my waking hours. I live just outside of Cedar City, Utah, a stunning high-desert community of some thirty thousand residents.
#2 I was unwittingly drawn into a desperate battle to bring Warren Jeffs to justice that has lasted for more...
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#1 Jesus' anger should make us gasp. He knows that if we don't get to God, invaluable treasures will be lost or obscured. We lose the space where we experience God's unfailing love and amazing forgiveness.
#2 We must take the time to be silent and contemplate, especially those who live in big cities like London and New York. God is the friend of silence, and we must...
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