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5 Ways to Thank Administrative Professionals

Posted in Excellence, Integrity, Servant Leadership, Serve, Trust, tagged , , , , , , , on April 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Regardless of the focus of your work,  many of us interact in some way with an Administrative Professional. As Wednesday is Administrative Professionals’ Day, it is a perfect day for us to give back! To say thank you to someone with a real servant heart. Today, there are more than 4.1 million secretaries and administrative [...]

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Who Cares?

Posted in Excellence, Faith and Work, Pride, Seven Pillars of Faith and Work, Work, tagged , , , , on January 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

I love today’s blog post from Seth Godin! Especially this point…”Caring, it turns out, is a competitive advantage, and one that takes effort, not money.” One of our Core Values at WorkMatters is Excellence. It is also one of the Seven Pillars of Faith at Work. Excellence is so often found in the details. Enjoy Seth’s [...]

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Living Out Colossians 3:23

Posted in Excellence, Faith and Work, Seven Pillars of Faith and Work on November 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The Apostle Paul can be intimidating. He writes: “Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people.”  I don’t know about you, but thinking that the Lord God Almighty supervises my work intimidates me considerably.  It makes me think that everything I do at work must [...]

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Choices

Posted in Excellence, Faith and Work, Choices on November 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Excellence is about choosing how we do things. I’ve been suggesting that it’s about doing the right things with excellence in order to BE excellent. But let’s not forget that it all comes down to our choices. I saw this great quote on my home page the other day: “You don’t get to choose how [...]

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Begin with the End in Mind

Posted in Choices, Decisions, Excellence, Faith and Work, Goals, Planning on November 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Trying to define excellence is like trying to say how long a string is.  I’ve talked a little about the process of determining our strengths, understanding our job, and defining expectations as a process to excellence.  And so, excellence will be different for everyone. But I’m reminded of another way to approach this.  One of [...]

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The Excellent Hedge Hog

Posted in Excellence, Faith and Work, Seven Pillars of Faith and Work, tagged , , , on November 16, 2011 | 2 Comments »

WorkMatters founder Tom Frase taught on the pillar of Excellence at our November Eight to Five.  He will continue to share his thoughts over the next few weeks defining more clearly how we achieve excellence in our work. Collins in his book Good to Great says that great companies find their “hedgehog idea.”  If you’ve [...]

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Who Gets the Credit?

Posted in Excellence, Goals, Pride, Relationships, Seven Pillars of Faith and Work, Team, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on October 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Each of us have been given a specific role in our work. For some of us, it’s clearly defined. For others, it seems to change every day. But we each have our gifts and abilities that we bring to the job. Some of us are really good at what we do. Our impact is real. [...]

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Employees and Bosses

Posted in Boss, Excellence, Integrity, Leadership, Purpose, Serve on April 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

I am reading Ephesians this week and this scripture, of course, stood out.          I don’t think it needs more explanation today… 5 Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ. 6 Obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is [...]

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Southwest Excellence

Posted in Excellence, Seven Pillars of Faith and Work on March 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

How often are you surprised by service? How often does a company or an individual catch you off guard with their enthusiasm? Cause you to tell stories to your friends and coworkers about the experience you had? Recently, I flew Southwest Airlines…and that is exactly what happened. Everything about the way they did business shouted [...]

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Leadership Lessons

Posted in Balance, Excellence, Family, Integrity, Leadership, Servant Leadership, Trust, Vision on February 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Mike Duke, CEO Wal-Mart Stores, is a leader many of us know and respect here in northwest Arkansas. It’s hard to fathom the challenge of leading the largest company in the world. He is humble, faithful and requires business excellence from himself and his associates. Read these excerpts from a recent interview Mike Duke did [...]

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