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Daniel Leadership

Posted in Bible, Economy, Faith and Work, Heaven, Honesty, Integrity, Leadership, Seven Pillars of Faith and Work on September 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »

I have been blessed to build a friendship over the past few years with a business leader who “gets it” about as well as any I know. Donnie Smith, new CEO of Tyson Foods (located here in northwest Arkansas), has worked at Tyson Foods for 30 years. On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal published a feature interview [...]

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Lunch Hour

Posted in Encouragement, Leadership, Missions, Relationships, Servant Leadership, Serve on June 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

We are busy aren’t we? Our lives are full. Our work demands more time than we have or want to give. Yet, something in us calls us to find a way to serve. To help someone in need. But it’s just one more thing… Lunch is sometimes used for business meetings, or maybe to work out. [...]

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Heroes

Posted in Death, Leadership on June 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Who is your hero? Maybe you have more than one? Some of us have heroes we know and love personally. Some of us have heroes we have never even met. But we all need heroes. In 1995, I was interviewing with the CEO of a software company I would subsequently work for. He asked me [...]

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1,500 Leaders

Posted in Leadership, Servant Leadership, Serve on May 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Last Friday, the world changed. Why? 1,500 men and women invested seven straight hours listening to  and learning from 10 world-class speakers teaching leadership. What do you think the exponential impact will be of those 1,500 people in the northwest Arkansas marketplace? As those 1,500 people interact globally with their co-workers, customers and suppliers…what will the impact be? [...]

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SERVE3

Posted in Humble, Leadership, Servant Leadership, Serve on May 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »

We are so excited (and slightly exhausted) for this Friday. Over 1,500 leaders will converge on The Church at Pinnacle Hills for our 7th annual WorkMatters Leadership Conference. I feel God’s pleasure in all of the incredible detail work that must be done to make this happen with excellence. I will have the chance to [...]

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“I want more of what he has…”

Posted in Influence, Leadership, Servant Leadership, Uncategorized on April 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

This was the statement made to me after our close friend, Tommy Van Zandt, spoke at our Eight-to-Five last Friday morning. I won’t soon forget it. Tommy Van Zandt is a Partner in Sage Partners, a highly respected commercial real estate company in northwest Arkansas. Following a devastating ice storm in 2009, Tommy fell from a ladder while [...]

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Seize the Day!

Posted in Bible, Death, Faith and Work, Influence, Integrity, Leadership, Missions, Relationships, Servant Leadership on April 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I know this sounds strange, but I sometimes take notes at a funeral. It seems it is a time where all that is good, all that is important, all that transcends a life…gets shared by people who care the most.  Yesterday, we celebrated the life of Carl Carpenter, whose son Rick is a close friend of [...]

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Easy Doesn’t Do It!

Posted in Excellence, Faith and Work, Goals, Leadership, Vision on April 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

WorkMatters is blessed to share office space with a great company, NorthStar Partnering Group. Each Monday morning, the NorthStar team starts their week with a worship/business meeting. This morning, Henry Ho, NorthStar co-founder, shared a powerful poem that he had heard at a recent WorkMatters Eight-to-Five event from Ms. Susan Barrett, Retired President/CEO of Mercy Health Systems NWA . Read this when you [...]

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Leading With INTEGRITY

Posted in Integrity, Leadership, Seven Pillars of Faith and Work on March 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

We spent the month of February really thinking about one of our Seven Pillars of Faith and Work…Integrity. It was an interesting experience. We spent time thinking about and talking about men and women we knew who we thought had great integrity. Time after time, we would bring up a name, then we would say, [...]

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Day 11–Who’s Got Your Back?

Posted in 31 Days of Proverbs and Prayer, Leadership, Team, Wisdom on July 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Without wise leadership, a nation falls; there is safety in having many advisers.  Proverbs 11:14 (NLT) Did you noticed how much attention was given to who the new President’s advisers were going to be?  It would appear there is a clear understanding that those selected to advise the President and serve on his Cabinet are [...]

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