Category Archives: Rants + Reflections

We are always on the lookout for patterns, so it was natural to go back and look at what we were writing when InsideWork got started. Those early posts tended to cluster around five topics.

We’ve collected the highlights of those early writings in five eBooks for personal reflection and discussion with colleagues.

Now for sale in PDF format! $1.95 per eBook, or $5 for all five.

October 2008

Worldview

Constructing a coherent biblical worldview is essentially Job One for people who believe that people’s behavior in business matters as much as their private conduct.

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January 2004

Rants + Reflections 2 - Creating Value

What if, instead of measuring value by awards and balance sheets, we looked after the good of every stakeholder - from investors to vendors to hourly workers … right out to end users? What would that change?

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Rants + Reflections 3 - Talent

In some companies the war for talent looks like the war on talent. We’re following the research and some ancient wisdom on recruiting, developing and retaining the right people at every level of the organization.

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Rants + Reflections 4 - Integrity

Merriam - Webster Online’s most searched-for word in 2005 was … integrity. Hmm… InsideWork’s Andrew Shelansky notes that “firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values” is what’s lacking in the business community.

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Rants + Reflections 5 - Disruptive Change

In times of great change, Eric Hoffer said, learners inherit the earth (while the learned are equipped for a world that no longer exists). Disruptive technologies and business practices = Change or Die. It’s that simple.

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