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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.
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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.
Richard John Neuhaus
Bernard Moon weighs the cost of saying "no" against the rewards of taking time for intentional solitude and building intimacy with God.
Work is an expenditure of energy in service which brings fulfillment to the worker, benefit to the community and glory to God.
John Stott
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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, [...]
Henri Nouwen
Responding to the Present Economic Crisis: Part I
What Will Become of Us? or What Will We Make of This?
There is a great deal of (understandable) handwringing about the still emerging financial crisis — much of it from people of faith, some of whom sound ready to hunker down and protect their assets by any means necessary, while others speak as if we are facing the end of days.
We all know what's important, right? So why do we allow things that hardly matter in the grand scheme of things to function as if they were the point of our lives? Jim Hancock poses a few questions inspired by a remarkable little film by San Francisco artist Lev Yilmaz.
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Small companies ... already have two strikes against them. Of the seven hundred thousand new businesses started this year, only thirty-five thousand (or one in twenty) will be around five years from now. And the primary reason for a small company's failure is trying to do too many things at once. [...]
Al Ries
Buckle your seat belt. In Part II of The Cause of the Credit Crisis Visually Explained, Jeff Jarvis shows how everything unraveled, and Dan Wooldridge points us to a challenging parable from the mouth of Jesus.
Bradley J. Moore gives us 7 practical things we can do when we are feeling overwhelmed by our work.
The Board room lights were dimmed, and the Meeting Inventory Spreadsheet was projected up on to the screen, larger than life. It was Bradley J. Moore's executive team meeting about meetings.
How do we find equilibrium in the life of business spiritually engaged? Bradley J. Moore finds himself caught between the dreaming and the coming true.
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Were Peter to tell us what it really felt like to be "Mr. President," he might say something like this: "Honestly? It's definitely a different ballgame! What game is it? Well, let's see. I guess you could say that before I was president, I was playing a game of catch. Anderson would throw things at me and I'd catch them. I'd throw things back at hiim and he'd catch them. A good long game of catch. And now? Now I'd say I'm a juggler. There's not one ball, there are five, and then there are ten, and then there are fifteen! People keep tossing more in to me to add to those I'm juggling. But I'm not throwing to anyone. I'm just throwing them into the air. As soon as I get them I just toss them back into the air. And my job as the juggler is to keep them all going up there, not let any of them drop to the ground."Robert Kegan
In Over Our Heads - The Mental Demands of Modern Life , (p. 147), Harvard University Press, 1994
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"Sometimes, when activities are meeting some need other than those they are intended to meet, you can become attached or addicted to that behavior. You develop a need for it to perform some function that regulates how you feel ... If you cannot be away from e-mail for some period of time to do something vital in life, like connect with your loved ones or take a walk or play golf, then something is wrong. If you cannot go to a social dinner without checking e-mail or responding to someone, something is wrong. If you can't go on vacation without constantly checking in, are you really on vacation? What about at home when you are supposed to be having downtime?"
Dr. Henry Cloud
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