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April 9, 2007
Keeping the faith: living the Mormon life at Yale
On Wed., Apr. 4, “The Mormon Way of Doing Business” focused on a mix of Jesus, family, and billions of dollars. Hosted by the Yale Latter Day Saints Student Association and its law school counterpart, the event brought in several big names: Radio host Glenn Beck moderated the panel that featured Jet Blue CEO David Neeleman, Deloitte & Touche Global CEO Jim Quigley, former Madison Square Garden CEO David Checketts, and former CEO of Life Re Corp Rod Hawes. Joining them was Jeff Benedict, the author of The Mormon Way of Doing Business, which examines the role Mormonism plays in the lives of all four CEOs. Each business tycoon shared stories—and occasionally wept—discussing a range of topics, from life-changing missions to Brazil, to business integrity and family, to listening to God while negotiating $300 million transactions.
Connecticut author Jeff Benedict is on a cross-country book-signing tour for his latest work. For an author, that is not unusual.
His book, "The Mormon Way of Doing Business: Leadership and Success Through Faith and Family," profiles eight CEOs who are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. All eight describe the effect their faith has had on their accomplishments in the business world. The subject nature of this book and its success, now in its third printing, is more unusual.
Benedict is frequently accompanied at speaking engagements by one or more subjects of the book, which is quite unusual.
Some person or organization in Salt Lake City purchased a rare LDS hymnal at auction on Thursday for $180,000 — several times the expected price, and the same price was paid by another buyer in the northeastern United States for a first edition Book of Mormon at a rare documents auction in New York City.
The purchase price for both items is believed to be among the highest ever paid for historic documents associated with the early history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
A new book created for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints features invaluable memory techniques and tricks for remembering scripture.
Written by David Larsen, "How to Remember Everything in the New Testament and General Conference" is a companion work to "How to Remember Everything in the Old Testament." Both books are published by Cedar Fort Inc. in Springville.
The Mormon Way of Doing Business Leadership and Success Through Faith and Family By Jeff Benedict, Warner Business Books, 256 pp. $25.99
Reviewed by Cecil Johnson
In the delightful 1960 film Never on Sunday, the celebrated Greek actress Melina Mercouri portrayed a love-for-sale lady named Ilya who took that day off from work to rest.
The six business executives spotlighted in investigative journalist Jeff Benedict's new book, The Mormon Way of Doing Business, also are never-on-Sunday workers.
In the beginning, former Ensign news editor Christopher Kimball Bigelow created The Sugar Beet, a bimonthly satirical newspaper on Mormon culture, in the likeness of The Onion.
And it came to pass that after The Sugar Beet stopped production, a Gentile publisher named Susan Vogel contacted Bigelow with the idea to turn the best of The Sugar Beet into a bound volume called The Mormon Tabernacle Enquirer (Pince-Nez Press, $14.95).
