A new development plan

I got chatting today with one of our sales managers who was telling me about her personal development plans. I love it when leaders in the organization are willing to talk about how they would like to grow! IOn addition to our development plans at work, there’s one arena in which all of us can [...]

Occupations and preoccupations

Note: we’re continuing this week’s look at the writings of noteworthy theologians and applying their ideas to our work lives.
I took a walk tonight by myself, which being an only child with a few kids of my own, is a rare indulgence. As I walked by a beautiful pond, the song Long December by Counting [...]

Half-finished lives

I love to read history. I’m not big into reading fiction or other non-fiction books, but I love to learn a little about the past and the people from it. As such, one of my favorite books is a collection of classic devotional works by Christians from throughout history. This week (and maybe next - [...]

Book Review: In, But Not Of

 
They do not belong to this world any more than I do. Make them holy by your truth; teach them your word, which is truth. Just as you sent me into the world, I am sending them into the world. And I give myself as a holy sacrifice for them so they can be made [...]

Our role in the next revolution

Forgive me for getting to this a day late (I had a fundraiser last night), but I thought I’d share a thought or two on Earth Day. It certainly has changed, hasn’t it? In less than a decade, Earth Day has gone from being a day of hairy women and hemp-clad men protesting the industrial monster of [...]

Quiet and productive

Normally something in the course of the workday spurs some sort of blogging inspiration for me. That’s one of the reasons I enjoy blogging so much - knowing that I’ll be blogging later helps encourage me to see the events of the day through a Christian worldview. Today though, I really didn’t do much. In [...]

Like a good wine

Last week started off with about a dozen key unresolved issues at work. By late Tuesday, I found myself getting more and more frustrated that resolutions seemed nowhere in sight. But as the week wore on, many of the issues that had been stressing me out seemed to get resolved, often in just the manner I had hoped [...]

Story time

 
Much is being written these days about organizational storytelling - using stories in the course of the workday to communicate key ideas. I couldn’t be happier about this. When I first started in sales I couldn’t stand the idea of rattling off a bunch of product feature & benefit information while a customer just stood there. Fortunately, [...]

Little to offer

 

Meetings, meetings, meetings. Short meetings, long meetings, impromptu meetings, scheduled meetings, formal meetings, laid-back meetings, fun meetings and not-so-fun meetings. Today was a day of meetings. Actually, it’s not just today. I’m going to begin telling my family that instead of heading of to work each morning, I’m heading off to meetings.
I like most meetings, [...]

Where’s the fruit?

Remember Clara, that old lady in the “Where’s the Beef?” commercials. I loved those commercials (I know that I’m dating myself here). Well today I had a Clara moment.
I was headed into a meeting that I really didn’t want to be in. I had some frustrations that I feared would inappropriately be visible to others [...]