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Back to the Cottage is the story of John Sipple's odyssey from the ‘Cottage’ to the corporation, and how he has relied on the values and principles he has learned in the ‘Cottage’ business of his youth.
Back to the Cottage is the story of John Sipple's odyssey from the ‘Cottage’ to the corporation, and how he has relied on the values and principles he has learned in the ‘Cottage’ business of his youth.
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The top jobs of 2015 don't exist today. Dan Wooldridge provides advice on preparing for tomorrow's job market.
I see it every day and have observed it for years. People who stop learning and growing, stalled in life and work. People who won't or can't change, frozen in habits of mind and heart. People who started with all the promise in the world, full of vision and energy, now marking time or as I once heard they've become "dead men on furlough.
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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Gardner outlines five premium thinking abilities: the disciplinary mind, the synthesizing mind, the creating mind, the respectful mind, and the ethical mind.
We're all for the afterlife but what are we supposed to do in the meantime? In the middle of too much, too fast, how are we supposed to pay attention to God?
Bernard Moon shares some insights into improving communication skills and how to enhance your ability to connect with people.
60% of college students don't get a successful education - wasting billions and billions of dollars annually. Richard Light conducts a survey of Harvard students to find out what advice can help students be more likely to succeed.
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.
Reading articles on the rise in the Wholesale Price Index in the Los Angeles Times and New York Times today reminded me of the Proverb about the "prudent person." The first half of Proverbs 14:8 says, ...
What if businesspeople could communicate like Jesus? Miracles aside, Bernard Moon thinks Jesus practices three communication skills any businessperson can learn.
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But I think that the things we have come to care about are insignificant when placed on the scale that Dostoyevsky, or Camus, or Tolstoy, or Kierkegaard, or Kafka, or the Old Testament, or the New Testament, or Rollo May would use. The problem is, Sarah, we're just not very serious people these days. [...]
Michael E. Gerber
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.
Thomas Friedman speaks to a network associated with Claremont McKenna College on the thesis of a flat world. Dan Wooldridge records his impressions of the speech as well as some implications for professional and personal development.
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Jim Hancock draws from Marcum and Smith's book Egonomics to point out the cost of ego in business.
time to think | Lst1984
A New York Times article "The Boss in the Machine" -reminded me how easy it is to surrender meditation . . . reflection . . . contemplation . . . daydreaming . . . just plain thinking about things to the technology that's supposed to be working for us.
White papers, presentations, case studies, webcasts & blogs relevant to your job.
Dan Wooldridge explains the origin of the modern concept of jobs and the current trend toward dejobbing.
It's a project-based world.
A great resource for podcast lessons on over 20 languages.
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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
Bradley J. Moore knows how intimidating it can be when everyone in the room knows more than you do about something. But it’s not all bad. "In fact," he claims, "I would say that feeling stupid at work can actually be a good sign for your career."
Our uniqueness emerges when we are authentic. And it's in this authenticity that our creative calling and contribution is fulfilled.
Dan Wooldridge writes that the new world of risk demands a shift from prediction and planning as personal and organizational drivers to preparation and adaptation.
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Today's best young employees, the ones on whom future success will depend, are demanding that employers help make them better performers. It seems that young people understood the new nature of today's economy before a lot of CEOs did, and they insist on employers who will keep developing them.
Geoff Colvin
I think it was Karl Barth who said Christians should greet the day with the New York Times in one hand and the Bible in the other. This may be the earliest reference to Information Grazing.
Dan Wooldridge, a confessed addict of the simple and elegant Moleskine notebooks encourages you to capture your inspiration and thinking in writing.
It's not so much what a young manager experiences in his or her first job as the take-away lessons in leadership. Geoff Finch recalls on-the-job learning about following, leading and becoming a leader.
Dan Wooldridge shares a biblical insight that will increase a personal effectiveness in developing others an organization.
We reached into the archive for Guy Kawasaki's monumental speech to the graduates of Palo Alto High School -- a speech he admits with due modesty cost parents thousands of dollars.
The thought that our bosses or boards want to give us feedback doesn't inspire positive emotions for most of us. In general, no feedback is good feedback, right? But constructive feedback is essential for improving performance.
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