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Apr 24, 2013
Vocation as Parish: The Missional Possibilities of Inhabiting Your Workplace
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When I hear someone talk about being more “missional” or “incarnational” in my faith, I wonder where I’m supposed get all that time to hang out with people and build relationships with my neighbors. I don’t have a job that is ministry related, affording me the flexibility to hang out in coffee shops or on my neighbor’s porch. I spend nearly half my... Read More + |
Apr 24, 2013
ADHD: Prescription for Leadership Success?
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Is it possible that Attention Deficit Disorder and its energetic twin, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, can be leadership assets, or are these conditions always prescriptions for career failure? "With the disorganization, procrastination and inability to focus, and all the other bad things that come with ADD, there also come creativity and the... Read More + |
Apr 24, 2013
Coach for Life: YP Interview with Glynn Young
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"By 2020, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics figures, baby boomers will account for more than 25 percent of the workforce, up from 16 percent today" (Sacramento Bee). Predictions like this have led some to focus on the resulting intersection of two significant employee groups: Boomers and Millennials. Such a mix of old-timers and young-guns could... Read More + |
Apr 24, 2013
From Office Administrator to Family Manager
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I remember rolling a cart through the office superstore and piling it full of pens, file folders, printer cartridges, staples, a box of coffee creamers, reams of copy paper and a stack of pink message pads. My work as Administrative Coordinator for a start-up church—my first job out of college—included restocking the supply cabinet at the end of the... Read More + |
Apr 23, 2013
The Secret to Productivity and Happiness at Work: Xtreme Generosity
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The other day I received an email from a complete stranger, asking for advice on a business plan: “Dear Mr. Wood," he blurted forth. "I saw your name blah blah blah and I have this wonderful idea blah blah could you please take some time to review and give me feedback blah blah.” Like most of you, I am quite busy and under intense pressure at work. As a... Read More + |
Apr 22, 2013
Books on Family: Not so Fast by Ann Kroeker, week four
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The morning has been a flurry of packing bags, counting underwear, finding missing shoes, choosing snacks, trying to pick up the living room, and reviewing the list of things-that-must-be-done-before-we-go. My husband and I bark orders and rush about so we can get into the car and head to our much-anticipated trip to Laity Lodge Family Camp in the Texas... Read More + |
Apr 21, 2013
Successful Dead Ends
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If you pay attention to business failures, you may start to perceive what some call “dead ends onto right paths.” Here are a few Harvey McKay gave in his classic business book: 1) Walt Disney was once fired by a newspaper. For what? For lack of ideas. 2) MGM’s memo after Fred Astaire’s screen test said: Can’t act. Slightly bald. Can dance a little. 3)... Read More + |
Apr 18, 2013
Surprise, Your Favorite Band is a Christian Band! Now What?
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"It was always a point of pride when we learned that some big, popular group was 'Christian'... Although we didn’t think of it in such terms back then, that sort of opinion only served to widen the sacred/secular divide, by positing that one more artist was now on our side (the 'sacred' side) of the cultural divide. We hoped that more of our favorite... Read More + |
Apr 18, 2013
The Work of an Illness
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“Of course, you’ll want to ask me about complications,” Dr. Ellis said. “We have almost none from the procedures done by our doctors—and we have a 99 percent success rate with this type of surgery.” I nodded, my mouth dry. Neck surgery? I wasn’t sure I was on board. Still, this surgeon was one of the best in the country, and God had gotten me in to see... Read More + |
Apr 17, 2013
#THClive with Ed Gilbreath
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This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech and also his "Letter from Birmingham Jail," written in Alabama when King was jailed in 1963 for nonviolent protest. While many can quote the former, the latter is less known—but no less important. In fact, the journalist Ed Gilbreath argues that King's letter... Read More + |
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