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Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

by Chip Heath

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Pushing Up People: The Secret Behind One of the Most Exciting Success Stories in American Business

by Art Williams

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Will Thomas said: " This is one of the greatest books ever! Art built an earth-shaking, game-changing company that rocked one of the hugest (and most unscrupulous) industries out there, and he did it by treating the clients we'll, treating his work force well, by doing ...more "

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The A.L. Williams Way

by Art Williams

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Will Thomas said: " In the decades since Art sold A. L Williams to CitiGroup, who renamed it Primerica, the company has grown and changed. There are many things in this volume that no longer apply.

But there is so much that does, that every Primerican should buy this In the decades since Art sold A. L Williams to CitiGroup, who renamed it Primerica, the company has grown and changed. There are many things in this volume that no longer apply.

But there is so much that does, that every Primerican should buy this book and read it devotionally. We each should read at least some of it every day. The fastest growing of our agents say they have their record success from reading The A. L. Williams Way every day and applying it to their business.

Art built A. L. Williams for amateur part-timers, people already making a living, but who “have a burning desire to be somebody.” He built A. L. Williams on the “best friends” basis. The new agent (he calls them “greenies”) takes her trainer (upline) to meet her best friends. They go in the back door and sit together at the kitchen table. There the upline explains what we do. There are no applications taken on that first appointment. They go back next week, give the friends a cooling down period. There are no gimmicks, no fancy sales techniques. And the product is simple: “Buy term [life insurance] and invest the difference,” put whatever you save on your old cash value insurance into an IRA.

A. L. Williams uplines should never give their trainees (downlines) the idea that the trainee (downline) works for the upline. The downline must believe the upline works for him, the downline. And it must be true. The upline must be devoted to training, helping, encouraging, the downline to build her own business.

Art’s philosophy is that God comes first, family second, business third. He encourages spouses to participate as much as they want, calling them not spouses but partners. Many agents rename their business in the name of both spouses. My checks, my certificates, my plaques, for instance, come to “Will and Winnie Thomas”.

The companion volume to this is Art’s business philosophy, Pushing Up People, whose name is self-explanatory. He says to “treat people great,” because if your people ever feel mistreated, you always have to watch your back.

I’ve been a Primerica agent for decades and I am totally sold on the A. L. Williams Way. I consider this company the greatest business opportunity in the world. This book tells how to do it. It has my unqualified recommendation. ...more "

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Coach by Art Williams

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Her biggest issue? Attitude. She would not tolerate a negative attitude, pouting or quitting. She did not put up with it. No matter what happened, she expected us to stay positive, “look happy” (even if we weren’t), and to never, ever quit.

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“They reminded me that Christianity isn’t meant to simply be believed; it’s meant to be lived, shared, eaten, spoken, and enacted in the presence of other people. They reminded me that, try as I may, I can’t be a Christian on my own. I need a community. I need the church.”
― Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

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“We could not become like God, so God became like us. God showed us how to heal instead of kill, how to mend instead of destroy, how to love instead of hate, how to live instead of long for more. When we nailed God to a tree, God forgave. And when we buried God in the ground, Got got up.”
― Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

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“As Brené Brown puts it, “I went to church thinking it would be like an epidural, that it would take the pain away . . . But church isn’t like an epidural; it’s like a midwife . . . I thought faith would say, ‘I’ll take away the pain and discomfort, but what it ended up saying was, ‘I’ll sit with you in it.”
― Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

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“I explained that when our gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender friends aren’t welcome at the table, then we don’t feel welcome either, and that not every young adult gets married or has children, so we need to stop building our churches around categories and start building them around people.”
― Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

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“The church is God saying: 'I'm throwing a banquet, and all these mismatched, messed-up people are invited. Here, have some wine.”
― Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

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