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Work is Meant to be a Response

We all work based on our strongest belief about life and work. What you believe determines how you work. Jesus invites you to work the very same way He did. This is a mind blowing invitation that becomes practical as we become the living sacrifice for the good of others that we are called to be.

Work Is a Response

The way you work is an operational response to what you believe about life and work. Your values, systems, process, methods, and unique actions are all informed by what you think is true. What you think is most important determines the way you work.

Questions & Answers With Our City of Memphis Mayor

Memphis Mayor Paul Young reveals his heart for the great city of Memphis as he defines how to build trust and encourages us — especially those who believe in God — to promote the welfare of our city by spreading the good news and getting involved in the areas that need the most improvement. This of course, means helping the people who need the most help.

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It’s Not About The Office, It’s About Belonging

To retain employees, organizations need to evolve their approach to building community, cohesion, and a sense of belonging at work.

Take a Career Break, but Stay in the Game

Time off by choice can be wonderful if you can swing it, a chance to recalibrate your priorities and detox from the stress of the working world.

The Price We Pay For Being Less Social

Removing the routine obligations of social life drains presence, conversational practice, relational effort and friendship from all of us. Exciting new research shows that talking with responsive communication partners softens our viewpoints, reduces our need to be right, and helps us become less self-focused.

There’s Still a Limit to How Much In-Person Socializing Many Can Handle

Despite a widespread desire to get back to normal, social bandwidth is lower for many than it was pre-pandemic, mental-health professionals say.

We Need More Holy Fools

A man is trapped in a car, rushing down a hill toward a cliff. The doors are locked. The brakes are out. The steering barely works. Far ahead, he can see other cars hurtling into the abyss. How far they fall, he does not know. What they find at the bottom, he cannot imagine.

3 steps Navy SEALs use to make decisions

We make thousands of decisions daily. Some are trivial, others are massive. When making these choices, it can be easy to get caught up in methodically weighing all your options. While it feels like a sensible process, it can cause you to miss opportunities. Sometimes you just need to make the call.

Calkins: After A Week Of Horror, Should We Still Choose 901?

“I worry that people will give up. My friend Pitt Hyde, in response to all this, told me, ‘We don’t need to give up, we need to double down.’ We need to double down to try and come together and set aside whatever differences we have and say, ‘This is our home.’ ” - Scott Morris

Designing Work That People Love

To attract and retain the best people, we must redesign jobs around a simple but powerful concept: love for the content of the work itself.

Set Expectations for Being Better Together

“These days there seems to be a thousand ways we are torn apart from each other, with few paths that draw us closer together…setting an expectation that attempts to find shared culture and values does make it possible to achieve more…”

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