LDS Cooperative "one heart and one mind...with no poor among us"

Tom Webb of St. Mary's University (and the Masters in Management program) presented a workshop on how cooperative managers need to manage differently from other enterprises.

He began by commenting that cooperators share, in addition to the values and principles, a common view that people are basically good. Corporations are managed by people and so corporations will act as good citizens. However, unlike cooperatives, corporations must deliver a return on investment and the search for profits may cause good people to make bad decisions. However, cooperatives can also make bad decisions.

The US and British forces have been waging a major offensive against civilians in Basra and Sadr City...an offensive that is not being reported in the mainstream news.

Like a camel traveling through a needle's eye[1]
My parents were fighting traffic between Orem and Provo a few years back when a shiny new BMW Z4 zipped past them. The license plate on the swanky sports car was emblazoned with, "Alma 36:1." Curious about the cryptic message the owner was conveying to the public, they grabbed their scriptures in the back of the car and looked up the cryptic slogan. It reads, "My son, give ear to my words; for inasmuch as ye shall keep the commandments of God, ye shall prosper in the land."