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Kris shared one of Nick Askew’s short films recently and I want to share another with you today, as I think it calls us in a simple yet profound way to fundamentally examine our intentions, always a good thing to do, but particularly so this time of year. Viewing time is less than 2 minutes.
Will you [...]
Christmas Comes Early To These Workers
Here is a corporate America story worth its weight in cookies. Merry Christmas to those of you who celebrate it, and happy holidays to all!
ASHLAND, Ohio (CNN) — An Ohio bakery shut down in October is bustling again, with 60 eager employees who had expected a Christmas on the unemployment rolls. Some 300 workers lost [...]
GraceWorks
I had the privilege of spending some time with the folks at GraceWorks yesterday. As described on their website, GraceWorks was established by Grace Cathedral in San Francisco in partnership with secular resources, and exists to provide job search and career transition support for unemployed and underemployed professionals of the San Francisco Bay Area. GraceWorks [...]
Jamie
I have a client and let’s call him Jamie. Jamie has a job he can’t stand, except for the fact that he is allowed to do it half a world away from the organization’s headquarters. So even though he now rolls his eyes so much during conference calls that he’s in danger of going cross-eyed, [...]
More Fun With Johnny B.
I shared with you earlier this week about Daniel Pink’s Johnny Bunko career guide “comic” book and what it has to say about making plans and following them (or not). Another concept I wanted to share with you from the book has to do with why we choose to do the things we do when [...]
Planning May Be Overrated
I just read a delightful little book by Daniel Pink called Johnny Bunko, The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need. Written in the Japanese comic style of Manga, it strikes me as a career guide for people who hate career guides. And its message is clearly boiled down to 6 key lessons. (And no, I [...]
The Gift of Our Discontent
“The most precious gift God has given to this land is not its great riches of soil and forest and land, but the divine discontent planted deeply in the hearts of the American people.”
–Newspaper editor William Allen White
Political pundit Chris Matthews closed his Sunday show this week with this quote and shared the following about [...]
Big Experiment
I’m conducting a big experiment this month. I’ve decided to put my idea of independent work to the ultimate test, and leave San Francisco to spend a month in Dallas.When I worked for Corporate America, aka ‘the man’, I used to fantasize about being able to take off for extended periods and still earn a [...]
Barking Starbucks expeditor?!
This week I read an article in the August Inc. Magazine about Starbucks (How Hard Could It Be?.) The author refers to a person he encounters that day whose job it is to talk to the customers in line before they get to the front counter, ostensibly to expedite their drink order.
Here’s a quick quote:
Anyway, [...]
More Cowbell
One of the funniest things I’ve seen on television was the Saturday Night Live sketch some years ago featuring (among others) Christopher Walken and Will Ferrell. You can see a somewhat edited version here.
In the sketch, Walken plays a music producer helping a band produce a song (Blue Oyster Cult’s hit “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper”). [...]