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?
We're all for the afterlife but what are we supposed to do in the meantime? In the middle of too much, too fast, how are we supposed to pay attention to God?
According to George Washington University's Alcohol Cost Calculator the estimated cost of alcohol problems to US business is around (gulp) $134,000,000,000 per year.
You don't have to be Jack Welch and you don't have to be responsible for the well-being of a giant corporation to make your mark as a leader. Part II from Jim Hancock
Good management is vital, but it's not leadership. Download the free POPCAP worksheet to help you think about the difference between leading and managing and decide what your company needs from both categories.
Jim Hancock joins former Worthwhile Magazine columnist Curt Rosengren's beef with Big Advertising. We see what you're doing with all that You're-Not-Good-Enough marketing... Now cut it out!
What Can Religion Learn From Business?
Harvard's Laura Nash Talks About The Disconnect Of Church on Sunday + Work on Monday
Harvard's Laura Nash Talks About The Disconnect Of Church on Sunday + Work on Monday (+ Jim Hancock considers a workaround because it doesn't look like things are likely to change any time soon).
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