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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 writes a follow up to a previous post on Stephon Marbury's $14.98 basketball shoes designed to transform the "shoe culture".
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Sitting in front of me was an old Indian coolie with gnarled, bare legs around which varicose veins entwined themselves like creepers on the branch of a tree. Those who know the Orient will be familiar with his type. As the preacher said the words "God is in your hands", [...]
Douglas Hyde
Your time is limited...how are you going to spend it?
Brett Johnson is an accomplished entrepreneur, consultant and international businessperson serving clients in Asia, Africa and the US. After 14 years with Price Waterhouse in the US and South Africa and stints as a partner at KPMG and Computer Sciences Corporation, Brett founded The Institute for Integration, Innovation & Impact in Silicon Valley.
Brett Johnson is an accomplished entrepreneur, consultant and international businessperson serving clients in Asia, Africa and the US. After 14 years with Price Waterhouse in the US and South Africa and stints as a partner at KPMG and Computer Sciences Corporation, Brett founded The Institute for Integration, Innovation & Impact in Silicon Valley.
Jim Hancock interviews Brett Johnson — an accomplished entrepreneur, consultant and international businessperson — on transforming businesses to accomplish more than bottom line profitability.
Brett Johnson is an accomplished entrepreneur, consultant and international businessperson serving clients in Asia, Africa and the US. After 14 years with Price Waterhouse in the US and South Africa and stints as a partner at KPMG and Computer Sciences Corporation, Brett founded The Institute for Integration, Innovation & Impact in Silicon Valley.
Brett Johnson is an accomplished entrepreneur, consultant and international businessperson serving clients in Asia, Africa and the US. After 14 years with Price Waterhouse in the US and South Africa and stints as a partner at KPMG and Computer Sciences Corporation, Brett founded The Institute for Integration, Innovation & Impact in Silicon Valley.
Bradley J Moore realized he's spent the last 15 years so focused on his career and the next big advancement, the next promotion, the next ego-boost, that he forgot how to think about life in more foundational terms: fun; gratitude; relaxation; joy; knowing God.
A Roman Catholic order acquires a Pfizer biotech lab to develop cures for cancer and gains influence to push for more ethical practices in the pharmaceutical industry. Dan Wooldridge asks how we can push for positive change within our own industries.
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I believe that Purpose - not money, not status - is what people most want from work. Make no mistake: They want compensation; some want an ego-affirming title. Even more, though, they want their lives to mean something, they want their lives to have a reason. In the Middle Ages, [...]
Nikos Mourkogiannis
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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
Joy, joy, joy!
When he stopped to pay attention, Bradley J Moore found he had been so focused on what he didn’t have, or what he thought he should have, that he was missing the opportunity to make the most of what was right in front of him.
Bradley J. Moore is feeling restive again. This time it's about a billboard seeking to entice Christians out of the marketplace and into the swirl of christiany ministry positions: "It disturbs me, this incessant need certain Christians have to insulate and protect themselves from the seemingly cruel, harsh, meaningless vapor of the evil secular marketplace..."
In this final part of a series on best practices, Dan Wooldridge points out that chasing best practices by definition demonstrates that you are lagging. He urges us to move toward the front by developing next practices.
When we leave our legacy in the hands of others, we must look beyond their competency, and into their hearts.
Dan Wooldridge reflects on the widespread impact of the life of a single man.
Donald McGilchrist reflects on leadership, train schedules, product design, beer and moral purpose in business.
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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The specific work to be done — whether it is making ax handles or tacos, selling automobiles or teaching kindergarten, investment banking or political office, evangelizing or running a Christian education program, performing in the arts or teaching English as a second language — is of central interest to God. [...]
Dallas Willard
Dan Wooldridge sees a lesson in William Wilberforce that counters the error that "ministry" is the realm of "spiritual" work. Wilberforce led a legendary career in politics.
When the guy with the Monty Python voice asked, "What is the purpose of your work?" the room full of ambitious, intelligent, hard-working folks fell strangely silent. In the stillness, Bradley J Moore wondered, "What IS the purpose of my work?"
Thinking about the value of work last week, I reflected on what I enjoy about working. The challenge and satisfaction of creating something...the process of brainstorming and generating ideas...the people I encounter and learn from.
Novelist Marilynne Robinson laments the loss of seriousness in contemporary thought.
Dan Wooldridge reflects on what it takes to keep our heads when everyone is losing their's in the midst of the current economic crisis.
From the spiritual point of view, work is a matter of being, of character, of what makes man man. It is not a matter of what society demands. Your identity, unless you work, is merely a theoretical identity, for you must manifest it, you must externalize it, lest the theory just collapse and you become a zero. [...]
Udo Middelman
Al Lunsford's reflections on the best commencement speech he ever heard
Dan Wooldridge at InsideWork notes that the greatest risk is in inaction. Avoid the mistake of always intending to do something and not doing it, of always preparing and never launching.
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