Last Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released unemployment statistics for July. Those who were looking for marked growth will be disappointed. In a nutshell: The unemployment rate...
Common courtesy is increasingly uncommon. In a 2011 survey, researchers Christine Porath and Christine Pearson found that 50% of workers experienced rudeness or incivility at least once per...
Work in any organization long enough, and you might see a familiar scene: the workaround. Someone in the organization wants their way, so they play office politics to...
[He] shows no partiality to princes/Nor regards the rich more than the poor/For they are all the work of his hands[.] – Job 34:19 As described in Job...
We love arrogant sitcom characters. Every TV generation has them. There is Sheldon on the Big Bang Theory. Before Sheldon, there was Dwight on The Office, Niles on...
Harris Wittle is a writer for the show Parks and Recreation. In 2010, he created a Twitter handle called @Humblebrag that retweets subtly-worded boasts people post on Twitter....
4 million. That’s how many people lost their job in 2009, in the midst of the Great Recession. David Murray, reflecting on these events of 2009 in an...
It’s a monster all right, but envy is not a benign little cartoon character. It’s a terrible beast that can eat us alive. A couple years ago, Harvard...
The human heart is an idol factory. – Tim Keller You’ve heard the sermons before, the ones detailing the idols of our culture – money, sex, fame, power....
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