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Reflections from Psalm 9
Howard Morrison writes about his encounters with God (and himself) in the Book of Psalms. This reflection on Psalm 9 is one in the Walking the Walk series of posts on the spiritual practices of people in business.
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Former Morgan Stanley chief, Phillip Purcell, identifies five lessons bankers must relearn in the 21st Century [the supremacy of profits over revenues, compensation based on sustained results; leverage cuts both ways; diversification; risk management as a business culture]. Geoff Finch describes two more…
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Bob Lefsetz is the author of “The Lefsetz Letter.” He is known addressing the issues that are at the core of the music business. In this article, Mr. Lefsetz discusses the decline of music as an art form by contrasting its current state to thoughts put forth by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Thanks to Mr. Lefsetz for the article.
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In 2005 about 10.3 million American workers (7.4 percent) were independent contractors — freelancers — up from 6.4 percent in 2001. Jenn O’Brien explores what makes freelancing a win/win in the marketplace.
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Al Lunsford is on a lot of mailing/emailing lists for newsletters and updates. This is the second of two posts on cutting through the clutter with clear, concise, visionary communication.
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Al Lunsford is on a lot of mailing/emailing lists for newsletters and updates — from the marketing efforts of early stage businesses to the funding appeals of not-for-profits. Maybe you are too… If so, you know the struggle to make sense of communications that sometimes seem amateurish and vague. If you’re not on those lists, we’re tempted to say, “Thank God and pass this along to someone who is.”
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What are the top ten most innovative companies? Jim Hancock takes a look, and discovers an interesting relationship between innovation and age.
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Lessons from the Square Watermelon
Innovation leads to another innovation. An interesting lesson from an artificially shaped watermelon, and its unforeseen side effects.
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Bernard Moon wonders if religious professionals really mean to say they follow a higher calling than the rest of us…because sometimes that’s what it sounds like.
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Jenn Branden O’Brien traces the path from her 2005 graduation to the present by way of big disappointment. What’s gotten her through in a tightening job market? Embracing the entrepreneurial spirit.
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Psalm 2
Howard Morrison writes about his encounters with God (and himself) in the Book of Psalms. One in the Walking the Walk series of posts on the spiritual practices of people in business.
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Ideally, if a company wants to connect with foreign customers it should speak and write in their language, right? I learned this lesson the hard way during a recent five-month stint in northern France: It’s really hard to build relationships with people who don’t speak your language. That experience sensitized me to the struggles of […]
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InsideWork Chief Technology Officer, Sam Nguyen reports from O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention on the business implications of emerging software design principles and practices.
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The Law of Unintended Consequences
Leaders must be careful about what and how they say things. Dan Wooldridge illustrates the unintended consequence of a leader thinking he was being clear but unintentionally communicating something quite different.
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Geoff Finch, InsideWork’s financial expert, returns from doing business in Rwanda. What he experienced there is nothing short of hope for the emergence of a new African economy.
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Second in Bernard Moon’s two-part recollection on how business ethics can be passed from one generation to the next.
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Psalm 6
InsideWork friend, Howard Morrison, reflects on the suddenness of God.
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Jim Hancock looks at upgrading his homeowners insurance and ends up frowning.
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More than two decades after immigrating to the U.S. my parents returned to Korea to establish a coffee chain. They were young when they first emigrated from South Korea and their formative business ventures were in the United States. So this was their first time doing business in a foreign country and, though […]
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Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge finds that cutting costs on employee health insurance can be extraordinarily expensive in terms of lost productivity.
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Second in a Two-Part Analysis from Glenn McMahan in Brazil
Glenn McMahan, InsideWork’s man in Brazil unfolds the story of principled leadership that rescued Brazil’s economy from 40 years of hyper-inflation.
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Part 1 in a Two-Part Analysis from Glenn McMahan in Brazil
Glenn McMahan, InsideWork’s man in Brazil examines the failures of leadership that led to 14.2 quadrillion percent inflation over 40 years.
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Computer scientist and theologian Noreen Herzfeld finds a rapture-related website. We are momentarily giddy.
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Why Worldview Matters
Dan Wooldridge follows up on Jim Hancock’s post on Enron: Innovation Corrupted with thoughts on how worldview trumps values in decisionmaking and the impact that has on personal and corporate life.
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