The Pervasive Power of Persistence
What would you consider the foremost requirement for success in the workplace? Would it be talent? Or education? Training? Good luck? Certainly each of these ...
The Neglected Virtue of Hard Work
A survey conducted by Parade magazine, which appears in newspapers across the United States each week, discovered 51 percent of the 26,000 people polled believe ...
Handling The Dreaded Curveball
Prior to the 1950s, baseball was an almost exclusively American sport. It was often referred to as “the national pastime.” Following World War II, however, ...
Passing Time and Creating Vision
One of the startling realities of life is how quickly time passes. Children grow up and people get old in what seems like an instant. ...
Courage In The Workplace
For many people in today’s workplace, security is their primary concern: A steady job; an acceptable income; manageable job responsibilities; predictable expectations. And who can ...
Keeping Faith During Adversary
Practicing one’s faith in the pragmatic, bottom-line business and professional world, where seeing is believing, is difficult enough. Faith is especially hard to come ...
You Do Not Need To Do All The Work
Tractors all over the midwestern United States and in agricultural areas around the world are roaring to life, starting their annual pilgrimage into the fields. ...
You – And Your Work – Matter To God
Maybe you are a high achiever, the type of person that receives ample recognition from your company for your performance. You have received numerous promotions, ...
Taking Advantage of Proprietary Knowledge
In the 1970s the photo processing and printing company my wife and I owned was one of the first to buy a Kodak Royalprint print ...
Dividends of Employee Happiness
An organization called “Delivering Happiness at Work” had some great insights that were outlined in a Wall Street Journal article about happy employees. A study ...
Of Fool and Foolishness
When was the last time you did something foolish at work? We have all dabbled in foolish behavior at one time or another, perhaps more ...
Tension Between Working And Waiting
Although I have never met a mystic, that seems like a good job to have. Sitting around all day, just thinking, occasionally coming up with ...
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