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The Face-Offs That Fuel Good Work

May 13, 2019 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

Good work always has a long-term goal.  I’m thinking this week about long-term goals of mine, like acting to confront climate change and the assaults on knowledge by misinformation. Both goals are intertwined and both seem difficult if not impossible … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Building Your Values into Your Work, Work & Life Rewards Tagged With: acting on convictions, available for persuasion, best is enemy of good, climate change, from good intentions to actions, global warming, good work, knowledge, Megan Mullin, misinformation, open enough minds, Patrick J Egan, persuasion, taking a stand, tortoise beats the hare

How to Engage Hearts and Change Minds in the Global Warming Debate

May 5, 2019 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

Conversations that change minds always appeal to people’s priorities.These are conversations we've had here about subjects like the risks of climate change (“An Enabling Perspective for Our Wounded World”), the current imbalances in the American … [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 Tagged With: carbon tax, Charlan Nemeth, climate change, dissent, elites, global warming, hearts and minds, Jerry Taylor, Katherine Hayhoe, minds through hearts, persuasion, polarization, political division, political divisiveness, reaching skeptics, science of persuasion, thought leaders, values

The Social Contract Around Our Work Is Broken

April 23, 2019 By David Griesing 1 Comment

A growing part of the American economy—the part that’s harvesting and utilizing our personal data to drive what we consume—no longer depends on “the basic reciprocities” that once supported our social contract. In other segments of our economy, … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Building Your Values into Your Work, Work & Life Rewards Tagged With: America's social contract is broken, automation, capitalism, democratic capitalism, economic disruption from innovation, economic output, ethics, future of work, Jaron Lanier, Oren Cass, productivity, Shoshana Zuboff, social contract, surveillance capitalism, The Once and Future Worker, Who Owns the Future?, work-based priorities

Moving On in the Wake of Destruction

April 14, 2019 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

Since writing about Barry Lopez’s new book last week and hearing a lot from you about that post, I couldn't escape the cry from his heart that we'll all need to learn more about how to survive as we face the accelerating destruction of the natural … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Heroes & Other Role Models Tagged With: Barry Lopez, community, community destruction, cries from the heart, death to life, ethnic cleansing, gacaca, genocide, Philip Gourevich, Rwanda, survival

An Enabling Perspective for Our Wounded World

April 7, 2019 By David Griesing 2 Comments

What is most exceptional about Barry Lopez is his perspective and how he manages to involve us in it.The remarkable prologue to his new book “Horizons,” finds him in the last place we expect to find him. For an author who has brought us with him to … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Building Your Values into Your Work, Heroes & Other Role Models Tagged With: Arctic Dreams, Barry Lopez, ethics, Horizon, perspective, point of view, prophetic, re-imagining, redreaming, Robert MacFarland, survival, values, values work, work, writing

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