From “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything” by Stephen M. R. Covey Redundancy is unnecessary duplication. Of course, redundant mission-critical systems and data management are necessary. But a redundancy tax is paid in excessive organizational hierarchy, layers of management, and overlapping structures all designed to ensure control. For the most part, […]

From “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” by Carol S. Dweck, PhD Mindsets are an important part of your personality, but you can change them. Just by knowing about the two mindsets, you can start thinking and reacting in new ways. People tell me they start to catch themselves when they are in the throes

From “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation” by Steven Johnson In the late nineties, a Stanford Business School professor named Martin Ruef decided to investigate the relationship between business innovation and diversity. Ruef was interested in the coffeehouse model of diversity, not the “melting pot” political kind: the diversity of professions

From “Embracing Your Second Calling: Find Passion and Purpose for the Rest of Your Life” by Dale Hanson Bourke “We arrive in this world with birthright gifts – then we spend the first half of our lives abandoning them or letting others disabuse us of them,” Parker Palmer says in Let Your Life Speak. “We

From “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner” by Frederick Buechner WHAT I BEGAN TO see was that the Bible is not essentially, as I had always more or less supposed, a book of ethical principles, of moral exhortations, of cautionary tales about exemplary people, of uplifting thoughts – in fact, not really

From “Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most” by Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun, and Ryan McAnnally-Linz Now do the same thing for your orienting emotions (how you feel not just right now, but from day to day in the regular course of your life).

From “The Language of the Soul: Meeting God in the Longings of Our Hearts” by Jeff Crosby   A lovely reframing of examen comes from Marilyn McEntyre, a writer whose varied works of poetry, art, list making, and spirituality I have long admired and benefited from. In her book Where the Eye Alights, she offers the

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From “Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust” by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith Social capital is different from other kinds of capital. When people come together and share a meal, they not only end up fed, they also become tighter as a group. The mere act of gathering

From “Sacred Compass: The Way of Spiritual Discernment” by J. Brent Bill God’s voice is at times so deep and so holy that it may appear to be nothing but silence – unless, like Elijah, we pay heartfelt attention. Can you think of a time when you heard God in the stillness of your soul?