“When Microsoft last week announced the launch of its new ‘hypervisor-based virtualisation technology,’ Financial Times columnist Michael Skapinker says, “I did not have a clue what it meant, but no doubt software people did.”
This is the thing about jargon… Skapinker writes:
Any group that works, plays or lives together develops its own vocabulary, often incomprehensible to […]
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The Ritz-Carlton Gold Standard
Dan Wooldridge shares this excerpt from Joseph Michelli’s book, The New Gold Standard, to make us think about the authenticity of corporate values and culture in caring for people and making a difference.
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Gleanings from The Soul of Silicon by George Gilder
Sam Nguyen captures the basic ideas from George Gilder's essay on a radical shift in thinking about capital, economics, and the role of the church today.
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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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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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Americans Divided Over a Divided America
Jim Hancock explores the perception of the economic gap in America.
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What the Emerging Workforce Can't Know (Unless We Tell Them)
Every fall, Beloit College publishes a Mindset List to remind college lecturers — and those of us who employ workers from the emerging generation — what college freshmen can’t know in any firsthand way.
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The Role of Artists in Modern Culture
Via Affirmativa exists to serve those who are "Revealing God and His ways through the making of art."
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Is church work more spiritual than any other work?
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The Reason Why Google Is #1?
Google, selected by Fortune as the #1 company to work for, exhibits a culture and leadership that seems more like the biblical concept of a household, oikos, rather than a modern company.
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If they're not at church, where are they?
The Barna Group reports that roughly 100 million people in the U.S. don't attend church. The good news for readers of InsideWork®, according to Dan Wooldridge, is that they are 100% in the marketplace.
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Do you know what you're hiring?
Dan Wooldridge points out that the rampant cheating in schools will eventually have a long term impact in business performance and the quality of our society.
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Fox takes aim at evangelical Christians
Sam Nguyen remarks on the announcement of FoxFaith, Fox Filmed Entertainment’s new operation directed toward evangelical Christians.
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