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Whitestone Podcast — 326 episodes

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A Very Key Lesson from a Dozen Roses

2

A Kingdom Worldview, as Fresh as Ever

3

Who are Christians Disciples Of?

4

Whatever You Do…

5

God’s Dramatic Breakdown of Barriers for Us

6

The Intimate Awesomeness of Obeying God’s Voice

7

God Invented Modern Marketing

8

How About Some Empathy Now

9

The Pressure’s Off

10

A Brief Tale about Teaching Ethics

11

On the Wrong Side or the Right Side of History

12

Intentionally and Wisely Handling Knowledge Debt

13

About Enoch

14

Another Season of Government-forced Virtue Ideas

15

Fruitfully Living Out God’s Ways

16

Limits: The Inappropriate Delegation of Thinking

17

God’s Three Overarching Directives to His Disciples

18

God’s Perfect Offer Redefines Your Risks

19

Delayed Gratification & Delayed Ratification

20

Born on Third Base

21

Are 21st-Century Evangelicals Evangelical?

22

Intentional Learning from Folks Doing Badly

23

Charlie Munger’s Advocacy for Backward Thinking

24

Where is the Geographic Center of Christianity?

25

Is History Always Written by the Victors?

26

About Cal Coolidge

27

Supernatural Intelligence

28

Expanding the Net…Engaging God’s Key Measure

29

Limits #6 - Would Jesus Be a Respected Church Member Today

30

Strategy #8- In the Things of Our Father

31

Marketing #25 - A Tale of Two Antiochs

32

Supply Chain #23 - What’s Your Crucial Supply Chain of Learning

33

Savviness #5 – The Willful Blindness of Hardened Religionists

34

About the “Memphis Smiths”

35

Disorder and the Destiny of Human-Led Institutions

36

The Promise and Peril of Commonplace-Usage AI

37

Limits #5 - The Startling Path to Limiting Sin

38

Strategy #7 - Fresh Pockets of Greatness in the Midst of Decline

39

Marketing #24 - The Everyday Art of Living the Gift

40

Supply Chain #22 - A Look at Supply Chain Chaos and Uncertainty

41

Finance Focus #36 – To Die is Gain…For Whose Sake?

42

About Junior Bridgeman

43

Savviness #4 – The Commonplace Drifting into Foolishness

44

A Right Heart Begets Extraordinary Stewardships

45

Limits #4 - Was Eric Limiting God?…or Not?

46

Strategy #6 - 9 Key Pointers for Us from the Church at Antioch

47

Marketing #23 - Responding to What Some Churches Often Proclaim

48

Supply Chain #21 - Are Good Deeds Part of God’s Great Commission?

49

Finance Focus #35 – The Present Value of All Things

50

About Henry Kissinger

51

Savviness #3 – Blanks That Need to Be Filled In

52

The Word of God and Bad Filters

53

Limits #3 - Man Limiting the Voice of God, Then and Now

54

Strategy #5 - What is the Gospel?

55

Marketing #22 - The Three Greatest Alignments Ever

56

Winning by Losing

57

Finance Focus #34 – Intergenerational Indebtedness

58

About the Unknown Believer

59

Savviness #2 – Establishing a Framework for Fruitful Savviness

60

The Average Christian is...Average

61

Limits #2 - Your Amazing Journey of Settling for Christ

62

Strategy #4 - Key Markers of Kings and Laws in God’s Economy

63

Marketing #21 - Who are the Prospects for Christianity in the Future

64

Powerful New-Covenant Obedience

65

Finance Focus #33 – Die Broke or Die Invested?

66

About Howard Cummings and Margie Cummings

67

Savviness #1 - Pursuing Fruitful Savviness

68

Free Trade and the Gospel

69

Limits #1 - The Self-Imposed Mindset of Settling for Less

70

Strategy #3 - You Can’t Most Fully Understand Strategy If…

71

Marketing #20 - FOMO Stewardship

72

COYOTE: Carefully Own Your Own Theology Early

73

Finance Focus #32 Trust Fund Babies, Trust Fund Adults

74

About Ambassador Vernon Walters

75

Research-Wisdom-Action #27 - Working Very Hard to Misunderstand Basics

76

Supply Chain #20 - Handling Chokepoints Exceptionally

77

Abraham #20 - Choosing to Live Out Your Identity

78

Strategy #2 - Shakeability, Failures, Redemption

79

Marketing #19 Differentiation: A Better Covenant

80

Do You Care What Others Think?

81

Finance Focus #31 - Making a Federal Case Out of It

82

About Steven Edwards

83

Research-Wisdom-Action #26 – Mind the Gaps: Beliefs to Emphases to Practices

84

Supply Chain #19 - The Providence of Intertwining Supply Chains

85

Abraham #19 - Faith and Unfilled Expectations or Requests

86

Strategy #1 God’s Strategy of His Unshakeable Kingdom

87

Marketing #18 - Paul: “Delivered as of First Importance”

88

Stewardship Single-Mindedness

89

Finance Focus #30 – Certainty and Uncertainties

90

About Stewart Hagestad

91

Research-Wisdom-Action #25 - The Promise & Perils of Benchmarking Individuals

92

Kingdom-Minded - Fox and Hedgehog

93

Abraham #18 - You've Got to Be Yoking

94

Supply Chain #18 - Building Real Reliability in Your Supply Chain

95

Marketing #17 - Getting in the Flow of Mass Customization

96

Being Centered on Others - Its Privilege and Power

97

Finance Focus #29 The Legacy of Unseen Compounding

98

Sowing and Reaping

99

Research-Wisdom-Action #24 - The Promise & Perils of Benchmarking Companies

100

About Herb Kelleher

101

Abraham #17 - Every Generation Chooses

102

Supply Chain #17 - The 3C Secret to Truly Sustainable Success

103

Marketing #16 - Supercharged Mass Customization

104

A Rolling 10,000-Hours Strategy

105

Finance Focus #28 – Triumph: Inheritance Bestowed & Rewards Tallied

106

God's Genius of Our Laboring in Obscurity

107

Research-Wisdom-Action #23 - Research, Me-search, We-search, He-search

108

About Thomas Sowell

109

Abraham #16 - Kingdoms, the Kingdom, and 21st Century Believers

110

Supply Chain #16 - The Morality of Supply Chains: Let Freedom Ring!

111

Marketing #15 - The Promise and Perils of a Global Brand

112

In This Era of Warp-Speed Change…

113

Fed Up with the Fed?

114

You Don’t Wanna Break into That Jail!

115

Research-Wisdom-Action #22 - The Pareto Principle of 80/20

116

About Barnabas

117

Abraham #15 - An Inspired Inheritance

118

Supply Chain #15 - Supply Chain Miracle

119

Marketing #14 - The Crucial Scalability of Your Enterprise

120

Go Risk Well!

121

Finance Focus #26 - Personal Diversification in the Modern Era

122

Connecting with Our Master Teacher

123

Research-Wisdom-Action #21 - Navigating Conflicting Mindsets

124

About Michael Milken

125

Abraham #14- The Great Human Theory

126

Supply Chain #14 - The Greatest Supply Chain Shift in History

127

Marketing #13: The Pirate Model

128

Every Christian’s Reachable Life of Greatness

129

Finance Focus #25 - Widespread Prosperity: The Essential Ingredient

130

The Fascinating Morality of Your Daily Work

131

Research-Wisdom-Action #20 - Action is Research

132

About Carl Yankowski

133

Abraham #13 - A Circumcised Heart in the Workplace

134

Supply Chain #13 - Drying Some Beaks in Your Supply Chain

135

Marketing #12 - 21st-Century One-to-One Connections

136

Great Personal Pivots

137

Finance Focus #24 - The Accretive Love of Neighborly Transactions

138

Great Enterprise Pivots

139

Research-Wisdom-Action #19 - Facts Taken on Trust: Muggeridge vs. Duranty

140

About Winston Churchill

141

Abraham #12 - You Can Be Like Abraham

142

Supply Chain #12 - The Tip of the Iceberg

143

Marketing #11 - The Most Famous Logos in the World

144

Overarching Purpose Embedded in Our Purposes

145

Finance Focus #23 - Flattened Financial Democracy

146

Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast

147

Research-Wisdom-Action #18 - The Seven P's of Wisdom

148

Believe It To See It

149

Abraham #11 - The Ayes Have It

150

Puttering Around or Pottering for Greatness

151

Marketing #10 - Content Marketing

152

About Paul Schneider

153

Finance Focus #22 - Walmart’s Pricing: Fans and Critics

154

Workhorse vs. Racehorse

155

Research-Wisdom-Action #17 - What Do the Experts Say?

156

Continental Divides and Closed Basins

157

Abraham #10 - The Vertical Anchors the Horizontal

158

Supply Chain - The Silk Road and the Digital World

159

Marketing #9 - The Crucial Role of Network Nodes

160

About Ralph Peer

161

Finance Focus #21 - Increase

162

Franchising

163

Research-Wisdom-Action #16 - Lake Wobegon vs. Antioch

164

Walmart Does Free-Markets Capitalism Proud, Again

165

Abraham #9 - Walking with God, No Matter the Century

166

Supply Chain - Expanding Markets: SOM, SAM, and TAM

167

Marketing #8 - Bundling

168

About Ralph Carr

169

Finance Focus #20 - God’s Reigning When It’s Raining

170

Appointment to Ambassador

171

Research-Wisdom-Action #15 - The Key Hazards of Generalists and Specialists

172

Storytelling and “Happily Ever After”

173

Abraham #8 - A Righteous Christian Nation?

174

Supply Chain - Invisible Hand

175

Marketing #7 - Influencer Marketing & FRED

176

About Adam Smith

177

Finance Focus #19 - An Unwelcome Partner? Inflation & U.S. Debt

178

Consistent Joy for Analyticals and Achievers

179

Research-Wisdom-Action #14 - Sherlock Holmes & Curious Incidents

180

Stored Procedures & the Kingdom of God

181

Abraham #7 - When Partnered with Faith-Fatigue

182

Supply Chain - Labor Shortages

183

Marketing #6 - Viral Marketing

184

About Berry Gordy

185

Finance Focus #18 - Five Finance Foundations for Every Believer

186

The PPP Affliction and Its Remedy

187

Research-Wisdom-Action #13 - A Tale of Two Playing Fields

188

Love the People, Fix the Dysfunction

189

Abraham #6 - The Pull Date on Patience

190

This Changes Everything!

191

Marketing #5 - Jesus and Brand

192

About Ada Lovelace

193

Finance Focus #17 - An Unwelcome Financial Partner? Income Taxes

194

Supply Chain - The Vertical Must Serve the Horizontal

195

Research-Wisdom-Action #12 - The Art and Practice of Unlearning

196

Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin in 2020s America

197

Abraham #5 - The Melchizedek Event

198

Knowledge Worker: Past, Present, and Future

199

Marketing #4 - Capital D Differentiation and Its Knockoffs

200

About Harry Guggenheim

201

Finance Focus #16 - Grandpa Bredo and Legacy

202

Supply Chain - McLean’s Container World

203

Research-Wisdom-Action #11 - Before Proceeding, You Must…

204

Leadership Exists to Serve Stewardship

205

Abraham #4 - A “Lot” of Troubles

206

True and Untrue Mysteries, Solved

207

Marketing #3 - The Marketing Mix

208

About George Washington Carver

209

Finance Focus #15 - Priced for Perfection

210

Supply Chain Perpetual Reconfiguration of Infrastructure

211

Research-Wisdom-Action #10 - “I Don’t Know”

212

The Most Powerful Words Ever Spoken

213

Abraham #3 - An Occupying Obedience

214

21st Century Factors of Production

215

Marketing #2 - The Crucial Foundation of Utilities

216

About Wayne Gretzky

217

Finance Focus #14 - Bootstrapping

218

Supply Chain Cooperation

219

Research-Wisdom-Action #9 - The Next 10,000 Hours

220

The Hedgehog and the Fox

221

Abraham #2 - Hearing Can Beget

222

Risk Redefined

223

Marketing #1 - Offerings That Have Value

224

About Ross Perot

225

Finance Focus #13 - IPO, Initial Public Offering

226

Supply Chain Headlines

227

Research-Wisdom-Action #8 - From Galileo to the Greeter

228

Anchors and Seabeds

229

Abraham #1 - The Preparatory Years

230

Profit or Growth?

231

John Boyd #11 - Linking to the Past

232

Business vs Nonprofit – Six Key Facets

233

Finance Focus #12 Stock Markets & Participatory Magic

234

Are You on Offense or Defense?

235

Research-Wisdom-Action #7 - Stop, Look, Listen

236

What’d You Do After That?

237

Daniel #12 – Astutely Avoiding Flawed Cornerstones

238

The Moats of Kings, Buffet, and God

239

John Boyd #10 - A Life Pattern of Standing in the Gap

240

Your Key Obstacles Are Internal

241

Finance Focus #11 The Deep Joy of Well-Executed Alignments

242

Jesus and Product-Market Fit

243

Research-Wisdom-Action #6 - Walter, Fanny, and the Bookmobile

244

Leadership vs. Stewardship

245

Daniel #11 - Linking to the Future

246

Patient Urgency

247

John Boyd #9 - Groundbreaking Influencer

248

Opportunity Cost

249

Finance Focus #10 Ownership

250

Four Enablers of Widespread Prosperity

251

Research-Wisdom-Action #5 - Receiving History and Living Out History

252

Distinguishing Need vs. Demand

253

Daniel #10 – Surfing the Biggest Waves

254

Incompetence Torpedoes Stewardship

255

John Boyd #8 - Who Do You Really Work For?

256

Building on the Perfect Victory

257

Finance Focus #9 Limited Liability

258

Competition: Sports vs. Business

259

Research-Wisdom-Action #4 - Nestings for Greatness

260

Believe the Best, Expect the Worst

261

Daniel #9 – Seek Reveal Speak

262

Positioning with the Son

263

John Boyd #7 - Bad Blockers

264

The Forging of Our Character

265

Finance Focus #8 Dotted Line vs. Bottom Line

266

Is God a “Metrics” God?

267

Research-Wisdom-Action #3 - The Ultimate Source

268

Follow Your Passion

269

Daniel #8 – Fearless Steadfastness

270

Free Markets and the Pencil

271

John Boyd #6 - Redesigning War

272

Essential Three-Way Conversations

273

Finance Focus #7 - The Time Value of Money

274

Sweat the Right Stuff!

275

Research-Wisdom-Action #2 - Keep His Commandments

276

Days of Reckoning…or Rejoicing

277

Daniel #7 – Unavoidable Enemies and Conflicts

278

The Art of Storyhearing

279

John Boyd #5 - Designing for Stewardship

280

What’s Your NBA “Net Rating?”

281

Finance Focus #6 - Farsightedness & Your Investments

282

Mentoring and the Peter Principle

283

Research-Wisdom-Action #1 - What Are You Pursuing First?

284

How Big is Your Gospel?

285

Daniel #6 – Response to Calamities

286

John Boyd #4 - Being Relentlessly Curious to Completion

287

Flat Organizations & The Telephone Game

288

Spiritual Blindness in a Christian Leader

289

Finance Focus #5 - The Three C’s of Money

290

The Digital Disruption of Supply

291

The Final Deadline for Many Newspapers

292

Daniel #5 - Building Bankable Trust

293

John Boyd #3 - iPhones, Software, and Fighter Jets

294

The Pony and Romans 8:28

295

The Criticality of The Only Accurate Autobiography

296

Finance Focus #4: Debt Capital vs. Equity Capital

297

Businesses and Nonprofits: Greed or Stewardship?

298

The Incredible Opportunity of Leveraging Unused Capacity

299

Daniel #4 - Relentlessly Faithful Dailiness

300

The John Boyd Series - Part 2: The Art and Science of High Performance

301

The Amazing Power of Superior Ownership Alignments

302

Finance Focus #3: Your Optimal “Mix of Six” Factors of Production

303

Cannibalizing in Your Organization

304

Mentoring & Discipling Series – Part 1: The Selection of Strong Mentors

305

The Mushrooming World of Disintermediation

306

Daniel #3 - Lifetime Ambassador

307

John Boyd #1 - Building Snowmobiles

308

Differentiation, Backward and Forward!

309

Finance Focus #2: Risk-Reward

310

On Pursuing Fame

311

Amazon, Walmart, A&P, and Your Enterprise

312

The Vital Importance of Rightly Applying History

313

Daniel’s Relevance to Leaders - Relevancy #2: Competence

314

Boeing and Ethics Dimensions of Cutting-Edge Technology

315

A Blockbuster Idea for a Netflix Movie

316

Finance Focus #1: Is Your Use of Debt Good or Bad?

317

The Evergreen Target of Being an Elite Knowledge Worker

318

The Risks of Mt. Everest vs. Mars Hill

319

Feeling Like Adam in Your Economics?

320

Why Strong Leaders Devour Book Reviews

321

Daniel #1 - Time and Place

322

General Electric and Your Same Great Challenge

323

Tariffs, the Chicken Tax, and Neighbors

324

Uncertainty Creates Epic Opportunities

325

Benchmarking to the Uniquely Best for Extraordinary Results

326

Full-Time Ministry for Every Christian