THE BENEFITS OF PURSUING TRUE GREATNESS
By Rick Boxx How would you define “greatness”? Or to put it another way, what would it require to achieve true greatness in the business and professional world? Some would connect greatness with the attaining of mass amounts of material wealth. Others might say that to be great, one would have to earn high status or fame within their chosen More...
WANTED: ORGANIZATIONAL VISION
By Stephen R. Graves One of my favorite books in the Bible is the book of Proverbs, and one verse always stands out for me: “Where there is no vision, the people perish” (Proverbs 29:18). When Proverbs More...
IF YOU ARE NEEDING A SHIP, WHY NOT JUST BUILD ONE?
By Robert J. Tamasy Some people like to dream. “If only I had the opportunity to show what I could do!” Others talk about what they will accomplish when “their ship comes in.” We talk about people getting More...
Perspectives from Time and Experience
By Jim Mathis.Observing my 72nd birthday several months ago caused me to pause for some reflection: I have seen the earth make 72 laps around the sun. Seventy-two years ago, I did not know which end of More...
VISIONS FOR THE FUTURE IN UNPRECEDENTED TIMES
By Rick Boxx In the esteemed magazine of years past, the Saturday Evening Post, Alexander Winton, who was the first automobile manufacturer, wrote about his experiences of being ridiculed in the 1890s. Winton More...
OVERCOMING WHAT GOES ON ‘BEHIND THE CURTAIN’
By Ken Korkow Many years ago I toured a meat packing facility. After seeing for the first time how hotdogs were made, it was more than a year before I could eat another one. It is interesting to learn what More...
What Is your Perception of Work?
By Robert J. Tamasy As we continue to deal with the repercussions of the global COVID-19 pandemic, our work – and how we perceive it – has been dramatically affected. Many of us, if we had not already More...
WHAT ‘EXPERTS’ DON’T TELL US ABOUT CONTENTMENT
By Jim Mathis A few weeks ago, the pastor of our church asked us to write down one word that described our current emotional state. I wrote “content.” Not that I am always content. A few times during recent More...
Never Underestimate the Value of a friend
By: Rick Boxx If you have ever watched a TV wildlife documentary that shows a lion hunting its prey, you will recognize the lion’s common practice: Finding the slowest or weakest gazelle and isolating them. More...
AFTER THE ‘WORST OF TIMES,’ PLANNING FOR BETTER TIMES
By Robert J. Tamasy Charles Dickens, in his classic novel, The Tale of Two Cities, opened with the declaration, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” In some respects, it is hard to More...
