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"Who I Am" begins with a keen comprehension of "Who WE are". Get that right and you have a fighting chance at understanding the best and worst about yourself, the people you work with and the customers you serve.
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Moreover, there is something unnatural in the high corporate mortality rate; no living species, for instance, endures such a large gap between its maximum life expectancy and its average realization...Why, then, do so many companies die prematurely?...Companies die because their managers focus on the economic activity of producing goods and services, [...]
Arie de Geus
I travel way too much. My kids tease me that the only people that send me personalized Christmas cards are hotel staff. So over the years I’ve developed a pretty keen sense of the good, the bad, and the ugly of the travel, hospitality, and restaurant businesses.
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We are constantly on a stretch, if not a strain, to devise new methods, new plans, new organizations to advance the Church and secure enlargement and efficiency for the gospel. This trend of the day has a tendency to lose sight of the man or sink the man in the plan or organization. [...]
E.M. Bounds
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.
Donald McGilchrist reflects on leadership, train schedules, product design, beer and moral purpose in business.
Dan Wooldridge reflects on Romano Guardini's meditation on the loss of attentiveness, or composure, in our society and the damaging effect it has on people.
Dan Wooldridge asks the question, "What happens to our humanity when immersion in relationships is replaced by immersion in interfaces with screens?"
Dan Wooldridge points us to Jason van Genderen's "Mankind Is No Island" to make us pause and reflect on whether we love a place or its people. In our self preoccupation do we notice, see, hear, and respond to those around us compassionately?
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Dan Wooldridge notes that in an ever increasingly technologically connected culture, people may be realizing that true relationships and friendships require more than digital chatter. Can face to face be making a comeback?
Brad Moore confesses: "Sometimes it all just catches up to me, too. The over-commitment, the pressures and demands coming from every side, and I just want a break. I don’t want to keep leading and being nice and thinking the best of everyone and being patient." Sound familiar?
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