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Your Values Should Feel At Home In Your Workplace

August 19, 2018 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

Values grounded in religion are moving into the workplace. What might have been commonplace a hundred years ago for a church-going public became increasingly uncommon over the past 50 years as fewer people identified as believers and the Supreme … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Building Your Values into Your Work, Work & Life Rewards Tagged With: corporate values, morality, proselytize, religion in workplace, religious revival, values, work, workplace

Ready To Leverage Rapid Social Change

August 12, 2018 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

Because of innovations in technology, the near-instant availability of vast stores of knowledge and a random web of expanding connections, we're in a period of rapid social change today. With rapid change comes an opportunity to re-think, well, … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Building Your Values into Your Work, Continuous Learning Tagged With: change, change agent, envisioning, future, historical models, history, hope, New Weather Initiative, planning, rapid change, readiness, STEPS Centre, teaching, values, vision, work

It’s Time To Envision a Better Future

August 5, 2018 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

At a time of year when everyone around me seems to be slowing down, I’ve been ramping up to envision the kind of fall and winter that I want to have. On the writing front, I’ll be seeking a publishing deal, but first I have to finish two … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Work & Life Rewards Tagged With: dystopia, envision, envisioning, ethics, future, Jedediah Purdy, motivation, optimism, Tolkien, utopia, utopias, values

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

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