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Jun 17, 2013
Books on Work: Decisive, Part Three
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During the years I was home schooling my children, I threatened to quit nearly every year during the month of March. After spending seven months practicing math drills, grading tests, and correcting papers, I found myself emotionally spent. Having been trapped indoors together throughout the long winter months, we all began to experience cabin fever.... Read More + |
Jun 14, 2013
"What Do You Consider When You Let Someone Go?" - Boyd Clarke
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Being direct and transparent is often the best managerial technique. Read More + |
Jun 14, 2013
When Dreamer Becomes Employee
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My first day was a rush of paperwork, welcome signs, and smiles. "We’re so glad that you are here!" one teacher exclaimed, lipstick smeared crookedly across her lips. I smiled back and shook her hand. I was her new boss; this was my new job, serving as the academic director of a small ESL school. I had been married for less than two weeks, and we had... Read More + |
Jun 13, 2013
What Does it Mean to be "Radical"?
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A business manager wants to live a radical Christian life – a life for which Jesus will say, “Well done, my good and faithful servant.” But he is frustrated because he is inundated with so many everyday urgent decisions concerning product and distribution, supply chain, and personnel that he doesn’t have time for what his pastor says really matters –... Read More + |
Jun 13, 2013
Leaving a Creative Legacy
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On my mother’s side, I come from a long line of “creatives.” Which is a nice way of saying our family is a little whacked-out. My great-grandfather Pappy wrote many unpublished short stories. His daughter Nanaw was an artist and writer, as well as an art teacher. Her husband Dadaw was an amateur inventor and held several patents before he died. And my... Read More + |
Jun 12, 2013
"Does My Career Matter to God?" - Andy Crouch
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We have to ask, "What am I making of the world here? Am I contributing to flourishing in what I'm doing with whatever level of choice and freedom I have? And am I finding ways to bear witness, not always explicitly, but clearly bear witness that there is a Lord of this world, and He has a name?" So every sphere of our life matters for that . . . very... Read More + |
Jun 12, 2013
Monday Nights With Dad
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When I was growing up, I loved Monday nights. Those were our nights alone with Dad. Mom taught a Bible study to 300 working women, and Dad made sure he was home, since my brother and I were too young to be left alone. At first, Mom made food for us, something easy like Pour-A-Quiche. But Dad — thank goodness — rebelled. Mondays became our nights for... Read More + |
Jun 12, 2013
Three Reflective Questions to Improve Your Job Performance
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I recently spent a couple of hours thinkingabout my job instead of actually doing it. I mulled over the current state of affairs at work, my priorities, my recent accomplishments, where my time is being spent, and so on. I guess you could say I was reflecting. To some of you, this may sound like a colossally assinine waste of time, but Read More + |
Jun 12, 2013
Books on Work: Decisive, Part Two
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Last year, a friend of mine asked for advice. His organization was being relentlessly criticized on social media. Most of the criticisms were unfounded and easily answered—but there was one problem. His organization wouldn’t let him mount a defense. The strategy was to emphasize only positive things and look to others to defend the organization. But... Read More + |
Jun 13, 2013
Play Games for God?
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St. Charles Borromeos was one night with a group of people playing chess. This was a social evening; they sat playing chess. And somebody injected into the conversation that evening, "If you were going to die this very night, what would you do?" And so one person said he would do one thing, one another. One would seek a reconciliation. Another would... Read More + |
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Spoiler Alert!Mark D. Roberts |
My friend John is a fine pastor. He teaches God's Word accurately and applicably. He shepherds his flock with wisdom and compassion. He seeks to live his faith each day and does so with consistency. Yes, John is a fine pastor. But I have one major complaint about John. He uses way too many spoilers in his sermons. For example, several years ago, John saw the final... Read More + |
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