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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

Lying With Your Job

March 11, 2014 By David Griesing 1 Comment

Recent weeks and months have provided several reminders of how often people lie with their jobs. Priests, lawyers, policemen, doctors, parking enforcers, tax collectors: guardians of ethical and lawful behavior, with power that comes from standing … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Proud of Your Work, Building Your Values into Your Work, Using Humor Effectively Tagged With: accountability, Ash Wednesday, deterrence, oath, oath breaking, obligation, public trust, responsibility, shame

The Glimpse of a Better World on a Snow Day

February 16, 2014 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

Snow. Snow. More snow. Disasters can bring out the best in people, but our wintry circumstances here in The City That Loves You Back have not gotten that bad yet. We’ve not had that much snow in Philadelphia. But while “record-breaking” … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Work & Life Rewards Tagged With: collaboration, community, disaster, fear, paradise, problem solving, trust, utopia

You Need Money to Make Money

January 31, 2014 By David Griesing 4 Comments

The promise of a free market is that you can get ahead with hard work and sound investment. In other words, you need your hard-earned money (or “working capital”) to make more money. But if you’re not earning enough to have money left over in … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Entrepreneurship, Work & Life Rewards Tagged With: American dream, aristocracy, class, class division, cultural divide, hard work, income inequality, meritocracy, promise, savings

Thanks

January 6, 2014 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

There is always some let down when the holidays are over. With snow and ice and the coldest day Philadelphia has seen in awhile “on tap” for later today, the outlook can seem pretty bleak when you don’t bring some lightheartedness into it. The … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Daily Preparation Tagged With: anticipation, gratefulness, gratitude, old and new, summing up, thanks, year-end

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