{"id":4171,"date":"2012-05-15T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T16:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=4171"},"modified":"2012-05-15T08:49:55","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T12:49:55","slug":"why-do-mormons-make-such-great-businessmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/why-do-mormons-make-such-great-businessmen\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Mormons Make Such Great Businessmen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/051512_1228_WhyDoMormon1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It appears that Mitt Romney&#8217;s Mormon roots and business credentials are going to be scrutinized closely in the 2012 elections. What&#8217;s the link between Mormonism and business? Schumpeter highlighted:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Less than 2% of the United States&#8217; population is Mormon, yet Mormons have created some of the most notable companies in the country. They include Romney&#8217;s own Bain Capital as well as JetBlue, Credit Suisse&#8217;s Investment arm and Marriott hotels.<\/li>\n<li>Their success is likely in part due to their clean living. Mormons do not consume alcohol or drugs which means that their judgment is rarely ever clouded.<\/li>\n<li>A history of persecution has also made Mormons more self-reliant.<\/li>\n<li>As the only global religion to have been created in the past 200 years, it is more oriented towards, and comfortable with, business than other religions.<\/li>\n<li>Even their conceptualization of God involves order and organization.<\/li>\n<li>The Mormon church itself is well run with estimates of its revenue running into the billions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more about the organization structure of the Mormon church, other notable Mormons, the mission that all Mormons must undertake, and why Mormonism is one of the three &#8220;Ms&#8221; at Harvard business school, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/21554173\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/21554173\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that Mitt Romney&#8217;s Mormon roots and business credentials are going to be scrutinized closely in the 2012 elections. What&#8217;s the link between Mormonism and business? Schumpeter highlighted: Less than 2% of the United States&#8217; population is Mormon, yet Mormons have created some of the most notable companies in the country. They include Romney&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4171","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\/2012\/05\/051512_1228_WhyDoMormon1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171","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=4171"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4180,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions\/4180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}