Developing Wilford Woodruff as a Leader | An Interview with Steven Wheelwright

Dr. Steven C. Wheelwright is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of
Management, Emeritus, Harvard Business School. Since his retirement
from Harvard, he and his wife, Margaret Steele Wheelwright, have
presided over the England London Mission, served at Brigham Young
University-Idaho, presided over BYU-Hawaii, and presided over the
Boston Temple. Steven taught at INSEAD—a private business school in
Fontainebleau, France, the Stanford Graduate School of
Business where he also served as the chair of the Strategic
Management Dept., and the Harvard Business School where he also
served as a senior associate dean overseeing the MBA program, then
overseeing faculty planning and development, and concluding as
chairman of HBS Publishing. He has held endowed professorships at
both the Stanford Graduate School of Business and at the Harvard
Business School. Steven and Margaret reside in Oakley, Utah, and
have five children, 20 grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
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Wilford Woodruff, Apr 16, 1894 Latter-day Saint MBA Society
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the Core Leader Library Highlights 2:00 Introduction to Steven. He
explains how he is involved with the Wilford Woodruff papers. 2:50
What are the Wilford Woodruff papers? He wrote 10 times what Joseph
Smith wrote. He kept better notes than anybody else. 8:50 Wilford
gave about 4,000 discourses but never wrote them down. He believed
to only teach by the spirit. 11:40 Missionary work and consecrated
service. He joined the Church when he was 26. His first mission was
Zion's Camp, soon after he got baptized. 20:50 He felt called to
record everything that took place. He said that he felt like a fish
out of water until he got something recorded in his journal. The
Wilford Woodruff papers are very important to Church history. 21:45
The impact that the Wilford Woodruff papers has had on
FamilySearch. There are about 20,000 people mentioned in his
journals. There are about 53 million descendants of these people
that have been found so far. 24:00 Another thing that is unique to
Wilford Woodruff is that he wasn’t afraid to open his mouth. Steven
tells the story of when Wilford taught at an inn. 28:30 Stories of
when Wilford goes on his mission to England. He was always willing
to do and say what the Lord wanted of him. 31:30 He was an amazing
example of exact obedience. More stories of Wilford’s mission.
34:00 Recap of Wilford’s service, mission, and marriage 40:20
Wilford and his work in the temple. He became the steward of
everything that went on in the temple and helped write down all of
the ordinances. There was a continual refinement of the temple
ordinances thanks to Wilford. 43:30 When John Taylor died and
Wilford was to become prophet. It took two years to organize the
first presidency because they were not unified. Wilford was patient
and waited for everyone to be unified in the decision. He wanted
things to be done in the way of the Lord. 48:10 2,500 pages of the
Wildord Woodruff papers have been published. For those that want to
get involved: You can help with transcription, verification, and
getting the papers published online. It can be done remotely on
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donate to help pay the interns and make the work go faster. 53:00
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