Have you had to travel on business lately?  When I travel, there are waaaay too many distractions.  The airports are full of people pushing their way by to get ahead of you, bouncing your eyes is all the more difficult as women are having to remove much of their clothing…

Sometimes we have the best ideas – the ones that will take our company’s objectives to the next level.  Help us reach our strategic goals.  Take our company to new heights in the industry we are in. Yet sometimes these great ideas seem to be ignored.  Have you ever been in this…

Well, not really. Not anymore. I used to be though – several years ago.  And I still have relapses from time to time. I used to be the first one in the office every day (this was before smartphones had taken over and I could check my messages as soon as I woke…

My organization went through another painful transition last week.  We made the decision to close some of our retail stores, and along with this closure came some loss of jobs for people that I have known a long time and worked with everyday. I have been through this situation many times…

I get tired of it happening to me. Yet many times I am part of it happening to others. I’m talking about being gracious to others in the workplace. I am at a company that I would consider “a great place to work. “  The atmosphere is positive, folks are kind to one…

It’s that time of year where we re-orient ourselves, think about the past year and consider new things we want to accomplish for the year that is coming up.  So along those lines, here is one thing I’d like us all to consider:  How can we be a better Christian in the…

I write about doing this every year now it seems.  And every year it gets a little harder and harder to do. Saying “Merry Christmas” to all those folks that we come in contact with at this time of year. Are you afraid to say it to you co-workers because you don’t want…

We’ve all done it at some point or another. I found myself doing it again last week. Jumping on the perennial “Bandwagon”. I was headed to lunch in the car with a couple of co-workers.  The conversation started to go in the direction of talking about the poor performance and…

I know that it is not easy being a believer in the workplace.  As you already know, that is the reason I started this blog six and a half years ago – to encourage us in this journey together to balance our faith with our vocation. But increasingly, those that…

I saw it a couple of times this week. And it made me sad when I saw it. Someone spoke harshly to another co-worker in front his peers. It just made me think about how we should be treating our fellow workers (and even our bosses).  This person happened to…