Finnish Management Society Learns from Respected Management Guru
Posted on December 17, 2009
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Finnish Chapter Meets with Leading Guru
BYU Management Society members and young professionals in Finland had a chance to hear from a world-renowned management and human resources expert 17 August 2009.
Dave Ulrich, who in 2001 was named the No. 1 Management Educator and Guru by BusinessWeek, gave the seminar on coming out of obscurity and achieving an abundant life. Ulrich discussed eight principles of abundance and how to find them at work, home, and church. Ulrich says the purpose of the discussion was to allow participants to look at the difficulties in life with a different mindset.
“Ulrich’s statement helped me see where our future success in the church is,” says Jussi Kemppainen, president of the Finland chapter. “Success is in the young adults and how we coach and train them to reach abundance in life.”
Young professionals in attendance found the presentation enlightening from start to finish. “They came up to me after the event and were astonished,” says Pini Kemppainen, Jussi’s wife and an organizer of the event. “I could see lives being changed. The examples were close to life so that each could see and ponder the principles and associate with them.”
Ulrich says his trip to Finland was as educational for him as it was for those who attended. Although people differ from culture to culture, he says, Latter-day Saints share the most important things in common.
“The Saints in Finland share values that bind us and actions that unite us,” he says. “We also all face common problems of learning to cope and seeing above the fray of day-to-day hassles. The promises of the Savior for an abundant and meaningful life can be realized by practicing gospel principles.”
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Great conference for our friends in Finland. We love you guys! Merry Christmas.