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Good Work Uses Innovation to Drive Change

July 29, 2018 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

Welcome to the “white-water world”—a world that is rapidly changing, hyper-connected and radically contingent on forces beyond our control. The social environment where we live and work today: - makes a fool out of the concept of mastery in all … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Continuous Learning, Entrepreneurship Tagged With: Ai, AlphaGo, connectedness, connection, entrepreneurial learning, IA, innovation, John Seely Brown, learning, playful work, technology, tinker, too big to know, tools, transformational work, whitewater world

We’re Mostly On Our Own When Seeking a Good Life & Good Work

July 22, 2018 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

For a semester or two in college I wanted to be a political cartoonist, but after drawing 3 or 4 for my college paper I gave it up as a career—although not gladly at the time. I was all over the place, and liked how confining my message to a panel or … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Building Your Values into Your Work, Continuous Learning, Daily Preparation, Heroes & Other Role Models Tagged With: Adrian Piper, convictions, doubt, engaged reading, ethics, how to live, how to work, Michele Margolis, moral certainty, politics, religion, second guessing your beliefs, social institutions, values, work

Our Understandings Can Evolve and Complement One Another

July 15, 2018 By David Griesing 1 Comment

The heat makes everything slow down in July. Like these horses, who were excited to be let loose in a new grazing field, I’ve been slowing down and grazing on some new stories. They argue that the stands we take on the job should be flexible, … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Building Your Values into Your Work Tagged With: Alan Lightman, Amartya Sen, Anglicans, courage, humanities, Imagine Dragons, Jaron Lanier, moral courage, moral divides, moral evolution, morality, Mormon, objective truth, Randall Stephens, religion, Richard Feynman, Richard Thaler, rock-n-roll, sciences, subjective truth, values, work

Why Voice Your Dissent?

June 5, 2018 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

The pull to go along with the crowd is always present. It’s even more insidious because we’re often unaware of how strongly we’re being pulled. We simply go along with what everyone else is saying and doing. The urge to belong is elemental. We … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Building Your Values into Your Work, Work & Life Rewards Tagged With: autonomy, conformity, consensus, dissent, dissenters, divergent thinking, groupthink, opinion diversity

Private Gain, Public Gain

May 11, 2018 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

Every day I’m surprised at how much the daily shock wave that used be “the news” sucks the air out of whatever room I’m in. It takes an effort to listen for what’s truly interesting and get to the bottom of it before the latest scandal or outrage … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself Tagged With: Amartya Sen, common ground, commons, commons based production, community, cooperation, economic values, material needs, non-material needs, social division, values

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