To Have An Impact, Tell Your Story
While attending a national conference some years ago, I enjoyed listening to a variety of excellent keynote speakers. Some of them, however, seemed particularly memorable. I wondered what had made […]
Entries by Rick Boxx
Taking A Stance For ‘Spiritual Conformity’
Our culture seems to be constantly changing these days. Personally, I have come to the conclusion that I can no longer keep up with, much less conform, to the many […]
Learning To Tame The Dog Named ‘Ego’
The story is told about a night when operatic composer Giuseppe Verdi performed a piano recital at La Scala in Milan, Italy. As he finished his final piece on the […]
Marks Of A Faithful Investor In Uncertain Times
As the world grappled with the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the investing world grappled with its own upheavals. People who had money in the markets will likely long remember the […]
Why The Greatest Gift The Church Can Give Us Right Now Is Forgiveness
The term cancel culture evokes images of screaming undergrads, deplatformed speakers, fired employees, and demanding protesters. However, the cancel culture ethic doesn’t simply exist “out there” in the larger culture; […]
Becoming A Player In The Eternal Game
Author Simon Sinek, in his book, Infinite Game, says he believes the business world for too long has been stuck chasing what he calls a “finite game.” When business leaders […]
Why Are So Many Of Us So Fearful?
For the majority of us, over the past 18 months or so – or perhaps even longer – fear has been a daily companion. Part of it has been the […]
Who Comes First — The Leader Or The Followers?
Perspective. It makes a tremendous difference in how we approach life in many ways. If you view life from an optimistic perspective, you can usually find positives in even difficult […]
Adaptability, A Tool For Facing Changes
For each of us who labor on the marketplace, change is nothing new. Whether we like it or not, change is a familiar experience, one that happens all the time. […]
Small Businesses Can Benefit From Trust
The Gallup research organization polled thousands of people to determine in which institutions they had the most confidence. After the military, which was ranked first, small business was second in […]
When Adversity Strikes, How Resilient Are You?
There is a saying, “Into every life, a little rain must fall.” What an understatement! Sometimes that “little rain” turns into a full-blown storm, one that hangs around for a […]
Financial Lessons From The Tortoise And The Hare
Most of us are familiar with Aesop’s fable about “The Tortoise and the Hare.” The humble tortoise challenges the arrogant hare to a race. The quick rabbit jumps to an […]
Maybe It Is Time To Reconsider The Bottom Line
Business professionals obviously like improving the bottom line. If you work for others, you might have to deal with performance reviews of one kind or another. Even top executives are […]
Where Would We Be Without ‘Unsung Heroes’?
We rarely see them, but they are indispensable. I am talking about the people who do the work behind the scenes to make possible the successes we experience every day. […]
The Wisdom of Examining Motives
One day my friend Don informed me that he had determined to begin acquiring businesses in related fields so he would be able to sell his customers more products and […]
The ‘Missing’ Pandemic: Missing People We Care About
Because staying at home during the Covid-19 pandemic seemed wise, I felt like I had aged by a couple of years over the first months. I had not been eating […]
Pestilence Confronted: Good Fruit, Bad Fruit…
In some countries fear about Covid is falling dramatically: in the USA, Gallop reports that only 35% of Americans are worried about catching COVID-19, down from 49% just several months […]
Pursuing Your Profession with Passion
Many of us spend 40 hours or more at work, whether in a traditional office, traveling from city to city, or increasingly, from our homes. The home office, or “hoffice” […]
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