Thanksgiving is a feast of sports, mainly football, as well as of turkey. Dan Wooldridge shares some links and lessons learned about life, business, and the economy from sports.

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.

Al Lunsford is beginning to be concerned about Christian Businesses showing up in Christian Business Directories — use the word Christian as a marketing term . . . You can trust us; we’re a Christian company . . . And don't get him started on the marketplace as a mission field...

1 John 1:9 is a favorite of many people: “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.” Some have referred to this as the Christian’s bar of soap.

Dan Wooldridge reflects on some questions suggested by Max DePree in Leadership Jazz that followers should ask of leaders.

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.

Bradley J. Moore attempts the implausible: combining Spiritually Astute Christian Observation with What’s Hot in 2009... You might even suggest his mission is impossible - heretical, almost - mixing foundational, unchanging spiritual truths with the fickle moodiness of fashion trends. OK, perhaps it’s misguided, even crass. But Bradley is not above it.

Every day we ask people "What's up? How's it going?: Mostly they say "fine." Mostly they lie. Al Lunsford shares mail from a friend in the restaurant business who told it straight.

Our uniqueness emerges when we are authentic. And it's in this authenticity that our creative calling and contribution is fulfilled.

AdAge reports that Taco Bell owner Yum Brands plans to boost Spanish-languge marketing to increase the share of Latino customers. It won't help. But there's something that might . . .

It's no secret that a lot more owners are identifying their businesses with their faith these days. Salon.com explored the trend in a piece called Verily I Sell Unto You. Herewith, reflections from InsideWork's Al Lunsford...

Bradley J. Moore has taken about all the generic Christmas greetings he can stand. And that's that.

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.

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.

It's easier to look at outside forces that challenge our business models because who in her right mind wants to believe she's dug her own grave?

If there were scandalous goings-on behind Tiger Woods' one-car accident, we're not likely to find out the details. To which Jim Hancock can only say, "So what?" Because, honestly, don't we all have plenty to worry about behind our own closed doors?

How we talk about our customers makes a difference in how we serve them...right? What would be the affect on customer loyalty if what we said about them in private became transparent?

Bradley J. Moore writes about why he writes — how he started writing, what writing does for him, and why he'll continue writing. Which begs the question: Why doesn't everybody write?

Sometimes words and messages can converge at just the right moment, burrow right down into your gut, and you just know that God is trying to tell you something... Recently, Bradley J. Moore had just such an experience.

"I don’t know about you," writes Bradley J. Moore, "but instead of thinking about the work of the Holy Spirit, I usually get caught up in work itself: the stress, the action of the deal, the next phone call, meeting or email—whatever is going on in the heat of the moment." Yeh, that sounds kind of familiar.

"Buddhist Capitalism? How did Jesus end up missing the boat here?" wonders Bradley J. Moore. "Why not Jesus Capitalism? Or Christian Capitalism? Last I checked, Jesus was pretty much into authentic servanthood..."