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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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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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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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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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“How To” Tips for Relationship with God at Work

Posted in Bible, Faith and Work, Fast, God, Prayer, Serve, Seven Pillars of Faith and Work, Small Groups, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on September 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »

For those of you that could not attend the WorkMatters Eight to Five event in early September, here are some tools to help you on your faith@work journey. This month we are focusing on the first and most important of the Seven Pillars of Faith at Work – RELATIONSHIP. Here are seven simple “how to” tips to help you [...]

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Inspiration for Relationship with God at Work

Posted in Adversity, Faith, Faith and Work, Family, Fear, God, Hope, Influence, Jesus, Perspective, Relationships, Seven Pillars of Faith and Work, tagged , , , , , , , on September 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »

We are blogging this month on the first of  Seven Pillars…Relationship. Specifically, how we can walk with God all day, every day, but especially in our work. But it’s hard, isn’t it? The menial tasks. The grind. Deadlines. Worry. Money…and the list goes on. But God calls us to see it differently, doesn’t he?  He [...]

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Why Don’t I Abide with God at Work?

Posted in Faith and Work, Fear, God, Jesus, Relationships, Seven Pillars of Faith and Work, tagged , , , , , , , , , on September 14, 2011 | 2 Comments »

As we discuss the Relationship Pillar and this idea of abiding with God at work, the first question has to be…why don’t we do it? We talked about this question in several discussion groups at last week’s Eight to Five event. Here are some answers: Fear –  it could cost us something… relationship, $, promotion, job! Busyness – #1 [...]

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Seven Pillars of Faith at Work

Posted in Relationships, Seven Pillars of Faith and Work, tagged , , , , on September 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

“But, how do you do it? I understand intellectually living my faith at work, but what does that really mean? And how do I do it?” That question, asked in a variety of different ways, is the most often asked question of WorkMatters. Last Friday, we launched a new flavor of our Eight to Five marketplace ministry focused [...]

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