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June 2008

Welcome to InsideWork 3.0

The new look at InsideWork is more than cosmetic. You’re looking at Day One in the third iteration of InsideWork — reengineered from the core out to deliver our third generation of content.

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May 2008

Back To The Cottage: Afterword

John Sipple ends the Back To The Cottage series by reflecting on the personal experiences that accompanied him on his journey from the Cottage to the Corporation and back, pointing out the significant turning points that shaped his character.

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December 2007

The Rough Reality of Christmas

The Perfect Setting for Hope

Dan Wooldridge notes that the romanticized and consumerized modern views of Christmas obscure the raw reality of the first Christmas. But in that reality there is true hope.

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A Flat World Christmas Story

from the Archives

These two articles from our archives describe Christmas then and now in the context of a flat world, and present the challenges to communicating the message in a flat world.

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November 2007

A Thanksgiving Meditation

Give thanks, for He is good

Dan Wooldridge reminds us during this Thanksgiving weekend what it means to give thanks.

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August 2007

26: Corporate Citizenship

John Calvin
Heaven is Not My Home (p 85), Paul Marshall, Word Publishing, 1998
It is not enough when one can say, “Oh, I work, I have my trade, I set the pace.” This is not enough; for one must be concerned whether it is good and profitable to the community and if it is able to serve our neighbors...And this is why we
are compared to members of a body. The life of the Godly is justly compared to trading, for they ought naturally to exchange and barter with one another in order to maintain intercourse.

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July 2007

24: Acquisition Target

Aleksandr Solzhenitysn
translated by Yermolai Solzhfnitsyn, New Perspectives Quarterly, Volume 11 #2, Spring, 1994
...bring back the awareness of a Whole and Higher Authority above us — and the altogether forgotten sense of humility before this entity. There can be only one true Progress: the sum total of the spiritual progress of each individual, of the degree of self–perfection in the course of their lives.

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23: Risk Management

James Houston
The humble delight in God, praise him for his goodness, and live lives of worship that stand in awe of his divine character. They acknowledge their indebtedness and dependence upon God...

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22: Bottom Line

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. And a man will worship something — have no doubts about that, either. He may think that his tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of his heart — but it will out. That which dominates will determine his life and character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

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21: Greed

C S Lewis
The Problem of Pain (p 89), Macmillan, New York, 1962
It is by human avarice or stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

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June 2007

20: Burn Out

Richard John Neuhaus
Death on a Friday Afternoon (p 180), Basic Books 2000
The Christian life is about living to the glory of God. It is not a driven frenetic, sweated, interminable quest for saving souls. It is doing for His glory what God has given us to do.

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19: Integrity

Richard Higginson
Transforming Leadership: A Christian Approach to Management (p 5), SPCK 1996
Salt preserves and light warns: we have a responsibility to resist evil influences and to be alert to moral danger in the workplace. Salt flavors and light guides: we have a responsibility to enhance what is good and to witness to Christ. Above all, salt glistens and light shines: we have a responsibility to be true to our nature, authentically, visibly Christian.

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18: Direct Report

Lesslie Newbigin
Honest Religion for Secular Man (p 136), Philadelphia. Fortress, 1966
We can commit ourselves without reserve to all the secular work our shared humanity requires of us, knowing that nothing we do in and of itself is good enough to form part of that city’s building, knowing that everything — from our most secret prayers to our most public political acts — is part of that sin–stained human nature that must go down into the valley of death and judgment, and yet knowing that as we offered it up to the Father in the name of Christ and in the power of the Spirit, it is safe with Him and — purged in fire — it will find its place in the holy city at the end.

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17: Segment Marketing

George MacLeod
Only One Way Left (p 38), The Iona Community 1956
I simply argue that the Cross be raised again at the center of the market–place as well as on the steeple of the church I am recovering the claim that Jesus was not crucified in a cathedral between two candles, but on a cross between two thieves; on the town garbage–heap; at a crossroad so cosmopolitan that they had to write his title in Hebrew and in Latin and in Greek...at the kind of place where cynics talk smut, and
thieves curse, and soldiers gamble. Because that is where He died. And that is what He died
about.

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May 2007

16: Busywork

Henri Nouwen
Making All Things New (pp 24-25), Harper Collins 1981
It is very hard not to be busy. Being busy has become a status symbol. People expect us to
be busy and to have many things on our minds...being busy and being important often seem to mean the same thing.... In our production oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves... More enslaving than our occupations, however, are our preoccupations.

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June 2008

Welcome to InsideWork 3.0

May 2008

Back To The Cottage: Afterword

December 2007

The Rough Reality of Christmas

The Perfect Setting for Hope

A Flat World Christmas Story

from the Archives

November 2007

A Thanksgiving Meditation

Give thanks, for He is good

August 2007

26: Corporate Citizenship

July 2007

24: Acquisition Target

23: Risk Management

22: Bottom Line

21: Greed

June 2007

20: Burn Out

19: Integrity

18: Direct Report

17: Segment Marketing

May 2007

16: Busywork

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