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A New Vision for Work/Life Balance

Posted in Balance, Culture, Seven Pillars of Faith and Work, Vision, tagged , , , , , on March 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

We are an activity-based culture in the United States today. We are busy. Some of us complain about our busyness…some of us wear it as a badge of honor. Regardless, we need help. We need solutions. Try this on…I think it will give you a new vision (literally) for living your life with purpose, not busyness. [...]

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10 Attributes of a Humble Leader

Posted in Bible, Faith and Work, Humble, Servant Leadership, Serve, Seven Pillars of Faith and Work, tagged , , , , , , , , on March 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

All of us want to be humble leaders. It sounds good. It sounds right. But pride is a mighty warrior. It fights for the enemy. And we so easily fall prey to the enemy. Some of us seem to be born with more humility than others. Some of us have great mothers or fathers that [...]

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Discovering Your Calling

Posted in Calling, Faith and Work, Planning, Purpose, Seven Pillars of Faith and Work, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on February 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Why should we care what work we do? Why should we care where we work? It’s just work right? It’s something we have to do. We have to pay the bills, so we work.           If that is our perspective, we are surrendering half of our lives                   [...]

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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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Generous

Posted in Faith and Work, Generous, Giving, Seven Pillars of Faith and Work, tagged , , , , on January 10, 2012 | 1 Comment »

gen~er~ous: adjective 1. liberal in giving or sharing; unselfish. Why are people generous? What makes someone want to give? Is it how they were raised? Or is it in their DNA? Is it because they have excess riches? Or is it a product of their heart? I don’t pretend to know the answers to these questions, but I have [...]

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The Intention in Influence

Posted in Influence, Leadership, Mentoring, Serve, Seven Pillars of Faith and Work, tagged , , , , on December 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

We have been teaching, writing and talking about Influence this month, one of the Seven Pillars of Faith at Work. As leaders, walking (sprinting is more like it) through the end of 2011 and into a fresh new year, Influence has to be omnipresent. I am reading Leadership is Dead: How Influence is Reviving It by Giant Impact CEO Jeremie Kubicek. Jeremie [...]

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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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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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Integrity in our Words

Posted in Integrity, Seven Pillars of Faith and Work, Words, tagged , on November 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Our final guest blog on INTEGRITY comes today from John Roberts, CEO, J.B. Hunt Transport. John has begun blogging inside J.B. Hunt to share ideas and create a dialog between associates. He agreed to share this thinking with you today. We have talked a great deal about our Team and the People that make it work.  [...]

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Leading the Next Generation

Posted in Influence, Seven Pillars of Faith and Work, tagged , , , on November 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

A quick off-ramp from our Integrity focus for a word on Influence from our close friend, Steve Toth. As an up-and-coming young professional, I just wanted to fit in.  Specifically, I wanted to fit in with the president of the company, and the rest of the over-achieving workaholics he ran with.  Work was my #1 idol, and [...]

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