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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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Navigating the Integrity Minefield

Posted in Faith and Work, Honesty, Integrity, Judgment, Leadership, Seven Pillars of Faith and Work, tagged , , , , , , , , , on October 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Ethics training often comes to us as hypothetical scenarios that barely resemble anything we see as “regular” workers, and hardly provides a map to navigate the hazards challenging our integrity at work.  Most of us will never experience an Enron scandal, or a Madoff ponzi scheme at work.  People familiar with these matters must have [...]

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Do I Make Sad Choices?

Posted in Choices, Decisions, Faith and Work, Honesty, Integrity, Seven Pillars of Faith and Work, Words, tagged , , , , on October 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

This is a guest post by Steve Toth. He is a husband, father of two wonderful children, and the business unit leader at Novar. He was the marketplace teacher at our recent Eight to Five event focused on INTEGRITY, one of the Seven Pillars of Faith at Work. His teaching is available to you now in Video, Podcast, and Executive Summary formats. My [...]

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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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