Announcement
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.
Worldview
Worldviews reflect the sum of our perceptions of the world.
Our worldviews change when our perceptions change.
Acquiring a biblical worldview is a change of perceptions about the world that involves going ever deeper into the biblical text.
We can read about it, hear about it, talk about it till our eyes burn and our ears ring and our tongues swell,
but until the biblical text becomes our new here we can't have a biblical worldview.
Creating Value
Big Media, Big Medicine, Big Religion, Big Business of all kinds is in Big Trouble with customers: are they creating as much value as they consume?
It is a problem for individuals as well, whether they are big-ticket CEOs or hourly workers.
What if we put the brakes on measuring value by current standards and returned to ancient and honored benchmarks of quality, sustainability, wholeness and community?
What if we treated stakeholders the way we would have them treat us? We're betting a lot would change —
and we see evidence of that in businesses around the world.
Talent
There is a new level of accountability at work in business.
If you do well, folks may talk about you; if you screw up, they certainly will.
It hardly matters if this is fair. It simply is.
Now more than ever, sustainable success depends on integrity — the total integration of what we say with what we do, individually and corporately.
Integrity or Duplicity. No company has to cheat to be regarded as duplicitous these days — it only has to say one thing and do another.
Integrity
There is a new level of accountability at work in business.
If you do well, folks may talk about you; if you screw up, they certainly will.
It hardly matters if this is fair. It simply is.
Now more than ever, sustainable success depends on integrity — the total integration of what we say with what we do, individually and corporately.
Integrity or Duplicity. No company has to cheat to be regarded as duplicitous these days — it only has to say one thing and do another.
Disruptive Change
The Tom Peters! Company posed four questions to a gathering of senior executives:
- What is the predictable nature of the business environment in the 21st century?
- What is the source of the pressure for change?
- What do executives believe is the fastest route to business failure?
- What qualifies as a road map to success?
The answer to all four questions was ... disruption.
The decade ahead could force whole business categories to change or die — much like the decade past
(just think of print shops, camera makers, the music industry, retailers, movie houses, radio, and television).
All of which makes learning as important as it has ever been. "In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future," Eric Hoffer wrote. "The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists."
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