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July 2014

July 23, 2014

The Next Big Breakthrough Business Idea: Be Nice!

A colleague was telling me about an epic deal he was working on, involving dozens...

July 09, 2014

How to Not Suck as a Leader

So much has been written on the subject of leadership over the past thirty years...

June 2014

June 23, 2014

Shrinking the Camel is BACK!

Hello Friends. Well. It’s been a while. How have you been? You may or may...

June 05, 2014

Forced Fun

I once worked with a leadership coach who asked me to write out a vivid description of my...

July 2013

July 02, 2013

Four Tips for Dealing with an Intimidating Audience

A friend of mine, Mark, was telling me of his harrowing experience in dealing with...

June 2013

June 17, 2013

Three Reflective Questions to Improve Your Job Performance

I recently spent a couple of hours thinking about my job instead of actually doing it. I...

April 2013

April 08, 2013

Are You Dealing with Complexity, Ambiguity and Uncertainty? Join the Club.

There is a saying here at my company: we like to see managers get “bloodied up...

April 02, 2013

You Must Build Credibility Before You Can Have Influence

Last Easter Sunday was not only, well, Easter Sunday, but it was also the final...

March 2013

March 26, 2013

Can You Know God’s Will for Your Job?

The other day my friend asked a rather blunt and personal question: “Do you think...

March 12, 2013

Why Guilt-Ridden People Make Better Leaders

The head of security, Fred, poked his head into my office the other day and...

February 2013

February 26, 2013

The Five Biggest Career Mistakes Christians Make – Part 2

For years I was stuck in a mindset that placed an irrationally high value on ministry while...

February 19, 2013

The Five Biggest Career Mistakes Christians Make – Part I

I can’t tell you how disappointing it was when, at age 22, I finally made...

February 08, 2013

Maybe You’re Not Cut Out to be a Boss

Over the past four years of blogging, I have harped quite a lot on the...

January 2013

January 28, 2013

Is Your Spirit Aligned with Your Work?

When the good people from The High Calling showed up at my office one day...

January 21, 2013

Why Failure is Necessary for Success

I hate failure. More to the point, I fear failure. It’s a major pain-in-the-ass disruption...

January 16, 2013

I’m Doing My Part, God’s Doing His…

For those of you interested in getting a close up view of the intimate details...

January 08, 2013

Five Life-Altering Career Lessons For Young Professionals

My first entry-level professional job paid enough for a decent apartment with a sofa and...

December 2012

December 07, 2012

I’m Getting Too Old for This

I met up with an old business colleague while in New York City for a...

November 2012

November 06, 2012

Got the Job, but Not the Dream. Now What?

After two years of unemployment, my friend Mark finally landed a sales job. It’s not...

October 2012

October 22, 2012

You Have the Right to Make Mistakes, Lose Everything and Start Over

I took my little family into Philadelphia for a day in the big city. We...

September 2012

September 11, 2012

Your Life’s Calling: To Become Yourself

My friend, a high-level manager at a financial services firm, confided he felt as if...

August 2012

August 28, 2012

Three Questions to Make You a More Valuable Contributor on the Job

Last Friday I spent a couple of hours thinking about my job instead of actually...

August 13, 2012

The Spiritual Value of Wasting Time at Work

I was on speaker phone the other day with a colleague, Bruce, closing up several...

August 07, 2012

How to Have an Awesome Morning Routine

Are you facing another bleary-eyed morning, scrambling to get to work, wishing you hadn’t indulged...

July 2012

July 16, 2012

Maybe Jesus Wants You to Stick With Your Career

Here's an excerpt from my new e-book, "At Work as it is in Heaven" which hopefully entices you...

July 10, 2012

Personal vs. Professional Boundaries: Why I Used a Pen Name for Five Years

Last week I announced the startling blog-revelation that I had been writing under the pen...

June 2012

June 26, 2012

Is Your Activity Aligned With Your Direction?

I once worked with an organization that was not quite as focused as it should...

May 2012

May 29, 2012

Your Own Private Incubation Period

If you took away the ten best days of the stock market’s history over the...

May 15, 2012

Do You Have a Job, a Career, or a Calling?

The first job I had out of high school was as a dishwasher for a...

May 03, 2012

Working Too Many Hours is Sick. Literally.

A new study was reported recently in the Wall Street Journal which followed the exploits...