Captain James T. Kirk likes to get his way. In the 2009 movie reboot of Star Trek, while a cadet at Starfleet Academy, Kirk has to take a...
One of our readers recently posed a question about our blog entitled 5 Lessons For Our Lives from the Parable of the Talents. The reader writes: I clearly...
John was having a particularly difficult time finding what he wanted at Fleet Farm, the giant Midwest home and farm goods retailer, until he met Kathy. She was...
We long for love, joy, and truth. And yet, we often feel the pressures of the workplace require us to hide and misrepresent the truth. In 1 Corinthians...
Raised in a farming family in Oregon, I’ve never not worked. After getting my MBA and embarking on a career in commercial real estate, I continued to work...
How important is character to a thriving workplace culture? Bruce Weinstein writes in Forbes that unfortunately, character has taken a backseat to competence: What most companies seek are...
John was a new employee with the company and had been thrown into the middle of a major technical crisis. He had no experience, no training, and no...
You could hear a pin drop in the office as Katherine Goble stood dripping wet from having to run a half mile in the rain in the middle...
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...
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