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The tail is wagging the dog. Proclaiming the year of the Lord’s favor does not require a 501(C)(3) corporation. The kingdom of God is not infrastructure dependent. At $347,000 per baptism, maybe it’s time to rethink Church.
I travel way too much. My kids tease me that the only people that send me personalized Christmas cards are hotel staff. So over the years I’ve developed a pretty keen sense of the good, the bad, and the ugly of the travel, hospitality, and restaurant businesses.
Leaders, in fact, all people, seem to be racing faster and faster in their personal and professional lives, trying to keep up with an out of control pace of life, chasing, chasing, chasing. No one seems to have time to think.
As for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD by failing to pray for you. And I will teach you the way that is good and right. But be sure to fear the LORD and serve him faithfully with all your heart; consider what great things he has done for you.
Picking up on Al Lunsford's Write What You Mean post, Jim Hancock spots a common offense against clear thinking and customer communication: Useless Data.
What's worse than useless data is fabricated and misleading data cynically employed to create fear or confusion by people who really should know better.
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Underlying Brazil's daily struggle with corruption is a feeling among many business professionals, at least those who try to be honest, that changing the business environment is impossible. They feel impotent and deeply frustrated. Sound familiar?
Seth Godin has strong ideas about marketing—"Marketing is now about leadership, about leading a tribe, about assembling and connecting and interacting with a group of people on a mission. Marketing is creating a movement"—and the bona fides to back them up.
Unless there's simply no way your product or service or experience can be commodified, hadn't you better tell a compelling (and trustworthy) story to the strangers you hope to convert to friends and the friends you hope to turn into customers?
Picking up from the Rich Fool in Luke 12:13-21, Solomon West observes some of Jesus’ most immensely practical teaching on how we are to live our lives.
Jim Hancock writes: "If people trust us it is not because of advertising promising ours is a name you can rely on. Trust comes from how we behave in the world — from the bedroom to the boardroom. People are watching and have at their fingertips the means to tell others what they observe. Thus is the circle of trust, or distrust, made wider."
Robert Scoble, Shel Israel: Naked Conversations
How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers
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For the first time corporate communication can be a dynamic two way conversation with the customer. Blogs are already changing business. What is the impact of blogs on corporate trust and the connection with the customer?
From time to time we have to shake the dust off after a hard fall, and head back out to the garage to start over from scratch because the alternative is...there is no alternative...we're workers; it's what we do; it's partly how we reflect God's image (however faintly) embossed on us, and we are frustrated and disoriented until we find a way to create value
"New leaders are expected to diagnose correctly, land on a brilliant strategy, pull together a powerful team, and inspire everyone to execute. Unfortunately," says Jason Jennings, "long lead times are gone. The months that leaders used to get for pondering, debating, or hiring outside consultants has shrunk to days." So how does a new leader hit the ground running?
Comments about sparse attendance at an ethics forum at the Direct Marketing Association's annual show a few years ago, got Allan Lunsford thinking about the irreplaceable value of trust in business.
Glenn McMahan, our man in Brazil, takes only cold comfort from the knowledge that the corrupt will eventually fall into pits of their own digging. Is that enough? What benefit does integrity bring to a person? What reward is there for honesty?
According to the second annual TIAA-Cref Trust in America Survey, 92 percent of American investors say: "I would invest with a firm that has strong ethics even if it meant not getting as high a return on my investment."
Dr. Stephen G. Payne wants to talk about trust, beginning with who's trustworthy: "I believe that every moment of your workday is an opportunity to draw closer to God, and one of the ways God helps us is through the words of those we trust."
Americans are starting to think about corporations the way they think about government. Pew has the numbers and InsideWork has a few thoughts on the matter
Jim Hancock looks back: "The marketplace is certainly more fickle—and getting killed in the line of business even more a possibility—than when Peter Kim spoke with Fast Company in the magazine's very first issue..,"
Do you believe God understands your life in the marketplace? Do you believe God cares about your role as a worker? Do you believe what truly matters to you matters to God? Read on...
Dan Wooldridge and Jim Hancock team up to offer a belated tip of the hat to Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert for coining the word truthiness and a wag of the finger at businesspeople who settle for pre-digested economic thinking. Come on!
"You get up, work hard, do what you think is right, try to improve what you do, listen to advice, try to get some time to yourself, go to bed, sleep…and get up the next morning to start it all over again," writes Howard Morrison. "How in the middle of all of this do you get ahead?"
Howard Morrison has never found accountability to others easy; just a HUGE growth opportunity. How about you? Beyond formal job requirements, are you voluntarily accountable for your behavior in the workplace?
Sometimes reading the psalms feels like eavesdropping. Psalm 143 is like that for Howard Morrison, where it turns out he overhears a reassuring promise of exactly what he needs.
It started as a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day at work for Bradley J. Moore, and ended up in a nightmare.
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"How can companies expect employees to be loyal to them when they can't be loyal to employees? One way is to strip loyalty of its moral meaning. Employees will be "loyal" if you pay them more than they would make in other places ...
When commitment is reduced to time at work, loyalty to something one pays for, and trust to a legal contract, these terms are emptied of moral meaning and the workplace becomes morally bankrupt."
Joanne B. Ciulla
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