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• What To Do When You Are Completely Overwhelmed at Work

  

  This post was published at Christianity Today’s Faithintheworkplace.com earlier this week, which I thought makes it worthy of a repost right here at the... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2011 BUSINESS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Is There a Better Version of You Out There Somewhere?

  

  My wife and I were enjoying a relaxing Sunday afternoon last weekend when the conversation turned to alternate universes.Other than watching an occasional... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2011 BUSINESS, SPIRITUALITY

• Shut Up and Start Using Your Spiritual Imagination

  

  For years I have been complaining bitterly about the great divide between church and work. I eagerly joined the band of enlightened and indignant comrades in th... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2011 BUSINESS, SPIRITUALITY

• How Mindfulness Can Help You Be a Better Leader

  

  A couple of years ago, I began making some lame attempts at meditation, mostly in hopes that it would help calm the tangled frenzy of chatter constantly orbitin... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2011 BUSINESS, SPIRITUALITY

• In Praise of Marriage as Spiritual Therapy

  

  This past year my beautiful wife and I celebrated twenty-five years of marriage. That is certainly a long time for two people to be living together. In some... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2011 BUSINESS, SPIRITUALITY

• The Harsh Reality of Being a Christian Business Leader

  

  I usually don’t pay much attention to those dime-a-dozen reality shows sweeping the prime time cable line up. Whether it’s that creepy pawn shop guy, or the... Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2011 BUSINESS, SPIRITUALITY

• The Happiest Employee on Earth

  

  There’s a bright yellow band of construction tape blocking the administrative entrance to my company’s main building. Apparently there are a set of killer... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2011 BUSINESS, SPIRITUALITY

• How to Know If You Are Doing A Good Job

  

  Last Friday I spent a couple of hours thinking about my job instead of actually doing it. I mulled over all that is going on, what I’ve been accomplishing, wher... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2011 BUSINESS, SPIRITUALITY

• Your Artisanal Life

  

  I was gunning across town the other day on the way to my next meeting, when I noticed a big new sign in front of a local business establishment. “Stove and... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2011 BUSINESS, SPIRITUALITY

• How To Generate Productive Conflict at Work

  

  My colleagues and I are trying to generate more conflict in our meetings at work. Some of us executives have been reading “Death by Meeting,” by Patrick... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2011 BUSINESS, SPIRITUALITY

• Finding Balance in a Full Speed Life

  

  My daughter went on her first professional interview earlier this week.I had made arrangements for her to meet with a friend of mine who owns a smallish but ver... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2011 BUSINESS, SPIRITUALITY

• Believers Need Not Apply

  

  A couple of weeks ago The New York Times reported that an astronomer from the University of Nebraska, Dr. Martin Gaskell, is suing the University of Kentucky... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2011 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY