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The Next Crisis Will Be a Terrible Thing to Waste

September 30, 2019 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

We are moving into less settled times both here and in the rest of the world. Several different storms are gathering along the waterfront today: - in politics, with gridlock both breaking down and intensifying over impeachment and the future course … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Being Proud of Your Work, Building Your Values into Your Work, Continuous Learning, Daily Preparation, Work & Life Rewards Tagged With: balance between people and profits, crisis wasted, economic policy, employer and employee assessment, environmental stewardship, opportunity during crisis, priorities, rebuilding, thriving workers, work, working

Making Our Jobs as Big (or as Small) as Possible

September 24, 2019 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

We bring our priorities into our work--making it more purposeful and satisfying--by using our capabilities more deliberately and by demonstrating our values when we do our jobs. Our basic “capabilities” include our personal autonomy (or the drive … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Being Proud of Your Work, Building Your Values into Your Work, Continuous Learning, Daily Preparation, Work & Life Rewards Tagged With: capabilities, climate change, global warming, job crafting, making the most out of your job, priorities, values, work

We Find Where We Stand in the Space Between Differing Perspectives

September 16, 2019 By David Griesing 1 Comment

When you hear an argument on Tuesday and its opposing argument on Thursday, it’s always a challenge to arrange a further date where you can line them up at opposite sides of the room while you sit in the middle to figure out what you think and feel … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Being Proud of Your Work, Building Your Values into Your Work, Continuous Learning, Work & Life Rewards Tagged With: August Wilson Red Door Project, collective purpose, common humanity, dieengagement, evolving perspectives, live performance, Nonny de la Pena, perspective, place to stand, point of view, polarization, political polarity, virtual reality, VR

Maybe Uber Drivers Can Handle Amazon Deliveries Too

September 9, 2019 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

These days it seems like companies are pawning off as many risks, costs and responsibilities on workers as they can get away with. It’s particularly apparent among new gig-economy workers like Uber and Amazon drivers. The on-going transfer of … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself Tagged With: BRT Statement, Business Roundtable Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation, competition, consumer, economic anxiety, economic insecurity, flourishing workers, gig economy workforce, gig-economy workers, re-bundling of worker benefits, safety net, thriving workers, work, worker, workers, workforce

The Discipline of Limits

August 5, 2019 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

Creativity needs limits, like when it happens within a window frame. Accomplishing anything worthwhile needs limits too.  But it’s remarkable how little what we hope to achieve is constrained by our limited resources and true priorities.  When you … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Building Your Values into Your Work Tagged With: Christopher Demuth, citizen work, creativity within limits, ethical framework, ethics, Greg Ip, limits, priorities, values, work ethic, work priorities

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