May 15, 2013
Each personal interaction is an opportunity to extend the respect God extends to you.
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May 8, 2013
If you're not being criticized, you're probably not pushing the envelope.
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May 3, 2013
It's the judgment you have, that's been tempered and developed over long years, and in many different situations, that becomes of real value.
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May 1, 2013
An ancient storyteller named Aesop told a fable about the north wind and the sun. It opens with a challenge about a traveler's cloak. The north wind bets the sun that he can get that cloak off the traveler.
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Apr 26, 2013
I think there is this whole other dynamic going on where the work in and of itself—the interactions and the recognition and acknowledgment of the spirits of the people that we're working with—this is building God's Kingdom day in and day out.
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Apr 24, 2013
David Magallanez collects trash. And he loves his job.
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Apr 19, 2013
So I think after we've been doing our work for awhile, we can easily get kind of complacent . . . especially if we do a good job. But I think we always need to be stretching forward in what we're doing and asking, "How am I growing in what I'm doing? How is my work contributing to the growth of the people that I work with and the field that I work in?"
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Apr 17, 2013
"I don't know any creative endeavor where you don't fail before you succeed."
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Apr 12, 2013
We may discover something about ourselves that we never really knew by diving into just what happens to be in front of us today. That, to me, is the unraveling of a fulfilling career path that is completely integrated with God's purposes for your life.
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Apr 10, 2013
As a Christian, my work can't be all about me; it's not supposed to be all about me. I went through this fundamental shift and a realization that my work—my job, my career—is really about helping other people.
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Apr 5, 2013
Like Cal Rogers' airplane, our lives and bodies hardly resemble the condition in which we took off. So what? We patch, rebuild—we persevere.
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Apr 4, 2013
Barry Saunders reminds us that, no matter what your calling is, creativity is a part of it. Why? Just look at Creation.
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Mar 28, 2013
Another encouraging message from Howard Butt, Jr., about teamwork, leadership, and geese.
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Mar 21, 2013
Managing employees means, first and foremost, managing people. Knowing who they are, listening, trusting, and encouraging are all part of being a successful manager.
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Mar 15, 2013
Even if you aren't a stay-at-home mom or dad, it helps to remember that family can be as much of a calling as your work.
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Mar 13, 2013
Competition can drive us toward success, but sometimes winning means more than beating.
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Mar 8, 2013
One of the things that I have valued more than anything else, as an attribute of a manager, is transparency.
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Mar 6, 2013
I often have to remind myself that the money I am handling isn't my own, just like this is not our world. This is God's world, and we have to behave in a way that reflects us as a responsible steward of it.
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Mar 5, 2013
Jenny White learned more than just job skills from her mentor; she inherited a vocation of caring.
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Feb 27, 2013
The higher we rise in any field, the more we must spend time at the ground level: with employees and customers.
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Feb 20, 2013
You have a responsibility to your customers, your employees, and your investors.
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Feb 15, 2013
How often do we try to send our little squeaky problems up or down the chain for someone else to solve? Take initiative. Sometimes, there are things we can do quietly, ourselves, to improve the atmosphere for everyone.
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Feb 14, 2013
Boyd Clarke, Pharmaceutical and Vaccine Industry Consultant, shares how his ethical beliefs inform his professional conduct.
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Feb 8, 2013
God cares about where we are, who we are, and what we do. He works in the here and the now, no matter what the circumstances—which means that when it comes to doing His work, the timing is always right.
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Feb 5, 2013
How do we figure out the ways our work and our calling intersect? For most of us, it's a work in progress.
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Jan 31, 2013
Are we called to be Christians first, or are we called to be human? As you might have guessed, we're called to be both.
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Jan 31, 2013
How does our faith affect how we see and interact with those around us? Andy Crouch has a few thoughts.
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Jan 24, 2013
In storms of crisis, Joe was a haven of calm. When projects went wrong . . . when upper management was out of reach . . . Joe held the course.
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Jan 23, 2013
We tend to promote people because they are good at getting the job done, but leadership is about more than being a good worker.
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Jan 17, 2013
When Isaac took on the family business, it was his shot at redemption. He'd failed in school, and this was his second chance. So what happened? He failed. Again. But Isaac's story doesn't stop there.
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Jan 16, 2013
No one's career is a straight path, even if we'd like it to be.
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Jan 10, 2013
Jeffrey Wright uses wacky experiments to teach children about the universe, but it is his own personal story that teaches them the true meaning of life.
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Jan 9, 2013
Bill's team did everything right ... and still lost the account. It wasn't fair. Adding insult to injury, back at the office, Bill's boss let him have it.
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Jan 3, 2013
We all bring different skills to the job site, and part of my job as the leader is to help the people that I work with identify where their strengths are and facilitate their best work.
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Dec 31, 2012
A lion and a cougar arrived at a water hole at the same time. They began to argue about who should drink first. The argument grew heated, and each decided he would rather die than let the other go first. Their emotions turned to rage and a battle erupted.
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Dec 13, 2012
We are ambassadors wherever we find ourselves, and we have a responsibility to give back.
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Dec 11, 2012
Leadership really is about how to get people to give you more than time, but their hearts, their creativity, their energy, to invest their whole heart and soul.
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Dec 3, 2012
We connect with people at a very challenging point in their lives and then try to use that as an opportunity to encourage them in their faith.
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Nov 29, 2012
We try to protect our sanity by isolating our "work" selves from the rest of who we are. But is this the best way?
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Nov 26, 2012
Near the end of his final semester, a college senior named Skip walked into business class and received a pop quiz. Skip was a brilliant student and breezed through every question—until the last one: What is the name of the woman who cleans this building?
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