The Most Generous Company in the World
Dan Wooldridge looks at two articles that describe the generosity of Wal-Mart and it’s impact on lifting the standard of living of people and communities. The articles suggest the idea that Wal-Mart might deserve a Nobel Peace Prize.
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From time to time we have to shake the dust off after a hard fall, and head back out to the garage to start over from scratch because the alternative is…there is no alternative…we’re workers; it’s what we do; it’s partly how we reflect God’s image (however faintly) embossed on us, and we are frustrated and disoriented until we find a way to create value
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Psalm 35:3
Howard Morrison wonders: Shouldn’t we be a people who long for God to speak, who listen to God while we work and rest and live our lives, and then periodically gather together as those whose souls have been spoken-to to respond with rejoicing? If that became our practice, corporate worship would be a response to God’s presence, more than a request for God presence.
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InsideWork’s Geoff Finch is headed for some presentations to the finance ministers of a couple of countries that only a few years ago were dedicated socialist regimes. His underlying message to them was going to be that a free market/private enterprise system is a better model than a centrally planned and publicly operated economy. Now he’s not so sure he should cite the shining example of the US-style private markets to support his thesis. So what does he present as a good working model?
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11 Reasons to Design a Better Corporate Culture in 2009
“The Ownership Quotient,” from Harvard Business School professors Jim Heskett and Earl Sasser and coauthor Joe Wheeler explores how “strong, adaptive cultures can foster innovation, productivity, and a sense of ownership among employees and customers.” Which got InsideWork’s Jim Hancock thinking about the questions we should be asking about the robustness of our corporate cultures.
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So here is my year-end anti-self-promoting Generic Holiday Newsletter. It’s chock-full of disappointments, bad news, and frightening developments. I ended up sending it to a handful of cynical friends like me; people I knew would appreciate it. I’m afraid the letter never made it to the address of the culprits who started all this. Maybe [...]
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A Quick Guide for the Bewildered
Dan Wooldridge recommends a quick guide to new media and social media for InsideWork readers.
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Part Deux of Trois
On December 23 — the traditional day on which Festivus is celebrated — Bradley J. Moore began an airing of grievances about the annual Christmas letter from an as yet unnamed family, which he now picks up anew…
Honestly, the generic Family Holiday Newsletter we received from this one family looks more like a resume than [...]
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The Perfect Setting for Hope
Dan Wooldridge notes that the romanticized and consumerized modern views of Christmas obscure the raw reality of the first Christmas. But in that reality there is true hope.
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Pretending to be Interested
Dan Wooldridge urges us to be clear and honest in managing expectations of those who send email as well as our own as we head off for the holidays or vacation. It’s a matter of truly respecting people.
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Bradley J. Moore has taken about all the generic Christmas greetings he can stand. And that’s that.
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Telling the Story to Our World
Dan Wooldridge explains how the first authors who chronicled the life of Christ provide a model to communicating to diverse global cultures and the next generation.
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A Christmas Meditation, Part 1
Dan Wooldridge writes that the phenomena of a flat world is not new. The global Roman Empire created a flat world that was the setting for the first Christmas.
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A Lesson from the Great Beer Crisis of 2008
Dan Wooldridge points to the remarkable examples of Boston Beer and Sierra Nevada Brewing as an illustration of a biblical perspective on loving your “enemies”, that is, your competition.
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Psalm 35
Fascinating. Much of Psalm 35 is a complaint about how David has been unfairly treated. I know how that feels. I haven’t experienced it to the depth that David has, but I certainly recognize the anguish in his words.
Many of David’s words are asking God to deal justly with his persecutors (the previous psalm affirms [...]
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Rejecting the Commercialization, Returning to Relationship
Dan Wooldridge recommends the video on the Advent Conspiracy to challenge the commercialization of Christmas.
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