Many who don't have power, crave it; many who have power, hoard it. No matter where we look, leaders who exercise power with humility, wisdom and restraint are not exactly a dime a dozen. Jim Hancock poses a few questions inspired by another remarkable little film by San Francisco artist Lev Yilmaz.
We all know what's important, right? So why do we allow things that hardly matter in the grand scheme of things to function as if they were the point of our lives? Jim Hancock poses a few questions inspired by a remarkable little film by San Francisco artist Lev Yilmaz.
The evidence is mounting that cynical opportunists, not conscientious capitalist practitioners bear the blame for the financial ruin we've only just skirted these last years.
What people call Christianity, Jim Hancock notes, first spread in a world organized by the microeconomics of something called the oikos— the root concept from which we get the word economics. So what does that have to do with immigration reform? Read on...
Egonomics author Steven Smith says, "Humility is a powerful antidote to unhealthy ego, and we can either humble ourselves, or wait for life to humble us." Jim Hancock wonders, "Are those my only choices?"
Jim Hancock writes: "Our stories shouldn't show up on the Employee from Hell website any more than they should on the Bad Boss Contest website.
AdAge asked a bunch of really smart business leaders "how they continuously educate themselves to keep up with the shifting digital and cultural landscapes." Here's what they said (and what InsideWork has to say about what they said).
Noting the toxic relationships in many workplaces Fast Company found research suggesting that workers who think their bosses are unfair may face significantly greater risk of heart disease.
In an interview with Religion & Ethics Newsweekly Pultizer Prize-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson lamented the loss of seriousness in contemporary thought. Jim Hancock picks up her thread with a series of questions.
Whole Foods Chairman and CEO John Mackey notes that executive pay in the United States is 300 times greater than the wages of average workers. Are CEOs overpaid? At InsideWork, we think there may be an even bigger question: are CEOs under-challenged?
Here's a competent, well-paid manager who can't see how in the world he could communicate with paying customers to make sure they got what they paid for and invite them to spend again. Could things be any more broken?
OK Christians in business, or Christian businesspeople, or whatever it is you call yourself: Jim Hancock wants to know if a difference that makes no difference is really a difference....
Neoteny is the practice of intentional wonder and voluntary naivete so as to see familiar things as if for the first time. Neoteny is what it takes to see the world fresh every day and engage what's there with purpose and passion.
Tom Peters' Ridiculously Obvious Thoughts on Selling
An annotated collection of ideas about business and biblical worldviews
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Tom Peters gathered 111 Ridiculously Obvious (to him at least) Thoughts on Selling. Jim Hancock brought the biblical narrative to bear on some them...just to whet our appetites.
2009 was what it was. Today we reboot. Tomorrow we get on with our work. Godspeed as you pursue your part with energy, imagination, endurance and hope in 2010. Happy New Year!
If there were scandalous goings-on behind Tiger Woods' one-car accident, we're not likely to find out the details. To which Jim Hancock can only say, "So what?" Because, honestly, don't we all have plenty to worry about behind our own closed doors?
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