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Job Training for Yourself

September 1, 2014 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

The on-ramp into a better job isn’t what it used to be. Gone are the days when you show up and get trained to do what the boss expects from you. In other words, if you can’t demonstrate that you’re qualified to do the job on the day that you start, … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Proud of Your Work, Continuous Learning, Daily Preparation, Introducing Yourself & Your Work Tagged With: accomplishment, employment, engagement, pride, qualifications, satisfaction, skills, training, work

Grace Note

July 11, 2014 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse in the Middle East, a mother’s voice cuts through the terrible din. The words belonged to Rachel Fraenkel, whose son Naftali had recently been kidnapped and murdered in the West Bank along with two … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Building Your Values into Your Work, Work & Life Rewards Tagged With: connectedness, contemplation, grace, prayer, reflection, transcendence, transcendent

Characters Find a Theme

June 27, 2014 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

In 1921, Luigi Pirandello wrote the play “Six Characters in Search of an Author.” A half-dozen actors show up in the theater as incomplete characters looking for someone to finish their stories. In this absurdist masterpiece, the completion they find … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Building Your Values into Your Work, Daily Preparation, Introducing Yourself & Your Work Tagged With: performance, perspective, point of view, rite of passage, Solofest, theater

Morality Play

May 24, 2014 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

Many who watched Frontline’s The United States of Secrets (May 13 and 20, 2014 on PBS) did so wanting to learn what happened before Edward Snowden’s massive disclosure of documents about the warrantless surveillance of American citizens. It was … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Being Proud of Your Work, Building Your Values into Your Work, Heroes & Other Role Models Tagged With: fear, moral courage, The United States of Secrets, warrantless surveillance, whistleblowers, whistleblowing

Negative Space

April 30, 2014 By David Griesing 2 Comments

Your negative space is as important as what you choose to fill it with. Negative: “Consisting in or characterized by the absence rather than the presence of distinguishing features.” (Oxford English Dictionary) It supports and … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Continuous Learning, Daily Preparation, Work & Life Rewards Tagged With: anticipation, counterpoint, creative space, expectation, negative space, space to fill

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