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Five Stages of Forgiveness at Work
“Dear God, is it OK for Bob to build his career by destroying mine? Just wondering...”
It’s not until you’ve been royally screwed over by someone that you realize how impossible it is to forgive. It’s downright unnatural, like taking a bath with your cat. For Christians, most of us believe it is our obligation and duty to rush headlong into forgiveness the moment we are betrayed, as Jesus modeled for us in the gospels.
Bradley J. Moore longs for the day when he can talk in front of all his self-described Christian friends with the ease and depth of meaning he feels when talking to people who wouldn't begin to call themselves Christians.

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John was a successful Christian businessman in his forties. He considered himself a casual drinker and liked to spend time at the bars in the hotels where he stayed. He would say to himself, I will have only one drink tonight, but the truth was that he liked drinking too much to quit after just one. [...]
Stephen Arterburn and Sam Gallucci
Jim Hancock writes: "If people trust us it is not because of advertising promising ours is a name you can rely on. Trust comes from how we behave in the world — from the bedroom to the boardroom. People are watching and have at their fingertips the means to tell others what they observe. Thus is the circle of trust, or distrust, made wider."
What can leaders do to defuse the current anger and lessen its likelihood in the future? Robert J. Bies and Thomas M. Tripp say: "The answer is to treat people fairly and, when that fails, rebuild the trust." If that sounds too simple, they say, "It is simple, and it should be basic (like decency). This is why, when the cynics and critics say that these are just warmed-over recommendations from the past, we reply “Go back to basics; we already know what works.” In fact, what got us in this mess were leaders ignoring those tried-and-true basics.
Jim Hancock writes: "Our stories shouldn't show up on the Employee from Hell website any more than they should on the Bad Boss Contest website.
InsideWork contributor Andrea Emerson highlights four time-tested practices to increase and sustain productivity.
John O'Leary, Tom Peters Company facilitator, tries to narrow down the meaning of all these meetings that tangle our days.

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"When a company holds an individual accountable for a goal, it must provide to him the resources for accomplishment."
W. Edwards Deming
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?
Harvard Management Update offers Five Guidelines for Using Statistics, which InsideWork dutifully passes along with certain embellishments...
Dan Wooldridge and Jim Hancock team up to offer a belated tip of the hat to Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert for coining the word truthiness and a wag of the finger at businesspeople who settle for pre-digested economic thinking. Come on!
The evidence is mounting that cynical opportunists, not conscientious capitalist practitioners bear the blame for the financial ruin we've only just skirted these last years.
Howard Morrison has never found accountability to others easy; just a HUGE growth opportunity. How about you? Beyond formal job requirements, are you voluntarily accountable for your behavior in the workplace?
Historian and contemporary culture watcher Martin Marty comments on Hanna Rosin’s cover story in The Atlantic, Did Christianity Cause the Crash?

























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