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A Holiday Present Worth Asking For

December 22, 2012 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

The path to fulfilling, purposeful work is hard to walk alone. Too often, even the smartest, seemingly most accomplished people don’t know how “to get out of their own way” to figure out what they should really be doing with their lives. The push … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Building Your Values into Your Work Tagged With: family, guidance, holidays, life lessons, role model, wisdom

Just Plain Funny #2

December 16, 2012 By David Griesing 1 Comment

I like a newspaper I can hold in my hands because sometimes the stories across the folds can talk to one another in ways that never seems to happen on a screen. That kind of exchange took place in my newspaper today. For as long as I’ve been … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Daily Preparation, Using Humor Effectively Tagged With: adaptation, creativity, education, experience, humor, resilience, tenacity, trial and error, wisdom

Time to Push Back!

December 6, 2012 By David Griesing 1 Comment

Bringing your values into your work means that you understand what your values are, and are prepared to take the positions that your convictions require. Value-centered living and working means being connected to your most basic power source. By … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Building Your Values into Your Work Tagged With: bystander, Charles Murray, images, Ki Suk Han, New York Post, picture of NYC subway victim, pictures, value- driven work and life

Nice, But What’s the Conversion Rate?

December 1, 2012 By David Griesing 2 Comments

There was a story in the Times this week about a policeman who came upon a barefoot man lying outside on a cold night and bought him a pair of boots.  I know about this for several reasons including multiple, near-simultaneous postings of the story … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Building Your Values into Your Work, Daily Preparation Tagged With: bystander, Good Samaritan, Lawrence DePrimo, New York cop and homeless man, purpose- driven work and life

What Good is My English Degree?

November 25, 2012 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

What kind of job are you going to get with an English degree (or a degree in History, Classics, Religion, Music, Art History, Anthropology, Philosophy or French)? You’re wondering. Maybe your parents are too. Or then again: you studied the … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Continuous Learning Tagged With: Apple, customer service, education, fulfilling life and work, good life, humanities, marketing, perspective, product design, product development, sales, science, Steve Jobs, technology

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