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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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In this second part of the series, Dan Wooldridge witnesses the potential for damage if we ignore our influence on anyone who might be watching us.
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How do you raise effective kids who become effective adults? Ingram presents principles and exercises to develop your child's potential, values, and character while drawing closer to your child.
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This conflict between family and work poses some questions about adult experience itself. How can long-term purposes be pursued in a short-term society? How can durable social relations be sustained? How can a human being develop a narrative of identity and life history in a society composed of episodes and fragments? [...]
Richard Sennett
Is church work more spiritual than any other work?
Dan Wooldridge recalls a lesson learned from a front-desk manager: we never know who is watching us and who is being influenced by our behavior.
Second in Bernard Moon's two-part recollection on how business ethics can be passed from one generation to the next.
Our colleague, Bernard Moon reveals some lessons he has learned from his father on relationships and influence.
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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. [...]
Paul Marshall (p. 195)
Coach Don Nava shares how God gave him insight, empathy, and compassion for those who struggle with their fitness through the life of his 10-year old son, David.
Dan Wooldridge points out four things that jetBlue is doing to enable it to successfully respond to its recent crisis that stranded passengers on the runway for 11 hours.
Our friend, Bernard Moon, is a resident and technology business veteran from Silicon Valley. Here he shares some insightful observations of the behavior and culture of Silicon Valley as only an insider to the culture can.
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If you insist on always having been right, you will, of course, be wrong, and your colleagues and friends will know this. The gracious among them will refer to you as "stubborn," and the less gentle will brand you a fool ... Developing the ability to quickly recognize errors in your actions, [...]
Hugh Hewett
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Boast not thyself in thy riches if thou hast them, nor in thy friends if they be powerful, but in God, who giveth all things, and in addition to all things desireth to give even Himself. Be not lifted up because of thy strength or beauty of body, for with only a slight sickness it will fail and wither away. [...]
Thomas A. Kempis
Every two years the Josephson Institute conducts a national survey of ethics among U.S. high school students. The results of the 2008 survey "paint a troubling picture of our future politicians and parents, cops and corporate executives, and journalists and generals."
In this second part of the series, Dan Wooldridge tells the story of the second billionaire who, too, lost his legacy. Out of this story he pulls out a lesson on leaving a legacy in the business you have created.
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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, [...]
Richard Higginson
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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 [...]
Lesslie Newbigin
Rather than dragging it out into six years’ worth of leadership-advice-blogging, which would inevitably get picked up by Random House, who would publish a best-selling book series, which would lead to 225 days a year on the motivational speaker circuit and then spin-off to a consulting empire where he would teach thousands of people the secrets of How to Not Suck as a Leader, Bradley J. Moore sums up very succinctly the secrets of leadership in six bullet points.
Successful businesses realize the importance of capital, financial capital, but also increasingly intellectual and social capital. The most significant capital of all, however, is moral capital.
In the divine economy, work is evaluated according to the way it fosters or retards relationships —— between ourselves and God, our companions and the earthly resources we are called to develop.
Gordon Preece
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Throughout the Bible, it is the person who works to whom most attention is given, rather than the form or conditions of his work...biblical writers emphasize the agent more than the act, the motive of the laborer more than the mode of his labor...the Bible is a book by workers, [...]
Paul S. Minear
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It is by human avarice or stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.
C S Lewis
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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Critics sometimes suggest that competitiveness is foreign to a religion of love, meekness, and peace. They have no idea how hard it is to be meeker than one's neighbor. There are abuses of competitive spirit, of course, as there are of love, meekness, and peace. But to compete - com + petere, [...]
Michael Novak
Dan Wooldridge reflects on character and calling as marks of business leadership in a world of multiplying options.
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. [...]
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A new alert popped up in the iTunes store recently, apparently folks come back -- convinced someone else should pay -- after they blow away their music folders. This way lies madness.
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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
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Success is not so much a matter of talent or intelligence, but of character. Dr. Cloud describes the six qualities of character that form integrity. More than just honesty, these qualities are the key to success.
Strategic vision. Long range vision. A vision for innovation or new markets or services. Dan Wooldridge is convinced all these are ultimately outgrowths of a leader's inner vision.
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