{"id":10849,"date":"2014-04-20T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2014-04-20T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10849"},"modified":"2014-04-20T13:08:05","modified_gmt":"2014-04-20T17:08:05","slug":"what-businesses-can-learn-from-the-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/what-businesses-can-learn-from-the-pope\/","title":{"rendered":"What Businesses Can Learn From The Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/042014_1703_WhatBusines1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If The Pope were ever to meet with a budding CEO he&#8217;d no doubt have many spiritual lessons to teach the young executive. But there are also a lot of business lessons to be learnt from him writes The Economist:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Focus on core competencies. By refocusing the Catholic Church&#8217;s efforts to help the poor The Pope has bought a consistency of message and purpose that has helped to increase the Church&#8217;s popularity.<\/li>\n<li>The focus has also allowed the Pope to cut unnecessary costs such as those for elaborate ceremonies or unnecessary luxuries.<\/li>\n<li>Pope Francis has repositioned the Church&#8217;s &#8220;brand&#8221;. While he hasn&#8217;t broken with the Church&#8217;s stance on homosexuality he has shifted the Church&#8217;s focus away from it.<\/li>\n<li>The results speak for themselves. The Pope is popular and Church attendance has increased.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the steps that The Pope has taken, other lessons that can be learnt from him, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/leaders\/21600980-about-take-over-crisis-ridden-company-demoralised-workforce-turn-roman-case\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/leaders\/21600980-about-take-over-crisis-ridden-company-demoralised-workforce-turn-roman-case\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If The Pope were ever to meet with a budding CEO he&#8217;d no doubt have many spiritual lessons to teach the young executive. But there are also a lot of business lessons to be learnt from him writes The Economist: Focus on core competencies. By refocusing the Catholic Church&#8217;s efforts to help the poor The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/042014_1703_WhatBusines1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10849"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10851,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10849\/revisions\/10851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}