Lessons on the Economy, Business, and Life
Thanksgiving is a feast of sports, mainly football, as well as of turkey. Dan Wooldridge shares some links and lessons learned about life, business, and the economy from sports.
Dining Tips and Links!
The InsideWork team does like to dine out! Dan Wooldridge shares some fun links to pique the culinary interests of InsideWork readers.
Reaching goals is fine for an annual plan. Only reaching one’s potential is fine for a life.
Max DePree
Leadership Jazz , Currency, 1992
The tension between love, money and fame
Dan Wooldridge points us to a video by Twyla Tharp to provoke thinking on what motivates us to be creative.
From the spiritual point of view, work is a matter of being, of character, of what makes man man. It is not a matter of what society demands. Your identity, unless you work, is merely a theoretical identity, for you must manifest it, you must externalize it, lest the theory just collapse and you become a zero…A Christian understands that only in creative activity do we externalize the identity we have as men made in the image of God. This, then, is the true basis for work.
Udo Middelman
Pro-Existence , (p. 35-36), InterVarsity Press, 1974
A Parable for Authentic Brands
This clever video parable by Richard L. Reising of Beyond Relevance points out how standard church marketing turns off those it seeks to reach. It’s a lesson in authenticity for all marketers.
We are warned not to waste time but we are brought up to waste our lives.
Eric Hoffer,
The Temper of Our Time: Essays, 1967, Harper & Row, (p. 30)
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer
The Passionate State of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (section 33), Hopewell Publications
Dan Wooldridge reflects on some questions suggested by Max DePree in Leadership Jazz that followers should ask of leaders.
What's the Difference?
Sales. Is it persuasion or manipulation? Dan Wooldridge notes that it is a matter of understanding the goal of the sales process.
In a rapidly changing world, some things may happen sooner than you expect. But you should never count on good stuff to happen quickly. It is my experience that everything good takes longer than you would like. You have to allow for that.
Roger McNamee
The New Normal , (p. 123), Portfolio, 2004
Cultivating a Simple and Pure Devotion to Christ
In the last of three articles on the Time Out Conference, 2008, in Monterey, California, Dan Wooldridge reflects upon why the conference had such a profound effect on the men who attended.
Part 2 of Dan Wooldridge’s report from the Time Out Conference, October 13, 2008. Observations of the issues discussed. Os Guiness’s view on technology and speed as the central feature of globalization and how this has profoundly changed our view of time.
Reflections from the Time Out Conference
Dan Wooldridge shares his reflections while attending the Time Out Conference. Life and spiritual growth is a process, not an event.
The global economy is nothing new. It existed in the days of Christ himself, protected and encouraged by the Roman Empire, and extending to the very limits of the known world. The spread of the Christian faith is itself a product of globalization, and the first moves towards a Christian theology are contained in letters sent by St. Paul to the far outposts of the empire. What is new is not so much the global economy but the speed with which ideas, information and assets can be transferred around the world. This speed has shrunk all distances to negligible proportions and has enabled firms in one part of the globe to compete openly with firms in another, whatever the distance between them. This fact presents new opportunities and new dangers. The opportunities are obvious: new markets, new partnerships, new forms of human life with which to stimulate commercial imagination. The dangers are less evident, but equally real: the hostility provoked by insensitive marketing, by aggressive competition, by manners and images that are offensive to the rooted values and religious beliefs and by products that are marketed regardless of their adverse side effects.
Theodore Roosevelt Malloch
Spiritual Enterprise: Doing Virtuous Busines , (p. 120-121), Encounter Books, 2008
