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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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Remember: You'll be left with an empty feeling if you hit the finish line alone. When you run a race as a team, though, you'll discover that much of the reward comes from hitting the tape together. You want to be surrounded not just by cheering onlookers but by a crowd of winners, [...] Howard Schultz
Dan Wooldridge writes that the legendary Seattle restaurant, Canlis, is a model of the integration of a biblical worldview with world-class business innovation.
Dan Wooldridge, in this second article on stewardship, urges people to clearly understand their financial health picture.
Dan Wooldridge proposes that the current economic crisis work toward a solution beginning with the debt load of the American household.
Why do companies die? Dan Wooldridge raises the question and points to an answer at the fundamental core of a business
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?
This survey indicates that small business owners, in spite of sacrifices, achieve a good measure of work-life balance, physical health, have good marriages, and are on track for retirement.
Dan Wooldridge has been thinking about the way we "do Christmas" in this part of the world and the dissatisfaction fueled by this world of choices, choices, and more choices.

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Growing expectations about what leaders should demand from their employees and how they should care for and develop them may, in fact, be a manifestation of something more profound and fundamental: the increasing importance of the workplace as a person's primary community in life...Divorce, increased mobility, civic apathy, urban alienation, [...] Jay A. Conger, Beth Benjamin

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"Family, social, and community relationships will likely assume a far greater degree of importance in a world of uncertainly, [...] there will almost certainly be a significant rise in the number of extended-family households Michael J. Panzner
68% of Americans say they can't live without a microwave
35% of Americans say they can't live without a dishwasher
What people call "Christianity" first spread in a world organized by the economy of the "oikos." That sentence is redundant since "oikos" is the root word from which we get "economics." It may also be at the root of
Jim Hancock / Apr 12 2006
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Dan Wooldridge reflects on the lessons we can learn from the tragic tale of a man who lifetime of providing for his family was based on a lie called debt.