Monthly Archives: August 2017
I’m not talking about credit cards or loans. I am talking about credit for accomplishments. My corporate mentor taught that giving credit to others for work well done is unlimited, that giving credit does not diminish your own, and that it should be dished out liberally. This advice was given independent of the gender of the mentored worker. My mentor was male, and the strategy worked well for not only him but for many of us who worked for him……
In Honor of Dick Gregory “The next time you put your underwear in the washing machine, take the agitator out, and all you’re going to end up with are some dirty, wet drawers!” Dick Gregory speaking to Ed Bradley on 60 Minutes Dick Gregory, like Roger Williams, decided his purpose in life was to be an agitator. He found sharp humor to be at least as powerful as a sit-in in our modern world. Agitation does not destroy the clothes…..
Organization is the opposite of chaos. Left to itself the universe decays, becomes more random, unorganized in a process called entropy. Life is an opposing force to chaos, and life seems fragile. Fragile means easy to break. Life requires so many interconnecting working systems that it appears fragile, as one system breakdown impacts the others and so many must work together to sustain life. Death, taking out life, is permanent, a crash, a state from which there is no return…..
One of my favorite scriptures starts off “Test everything, hold fast what is good.” 1 Thes 5:21. If feels like like a license to explore, to find true limits vs. false, to not take everything at face value. Work to keep what is good, and reject evil, seems a license to fail fast and often, in order to succeed. Great practical advice, it seems, with a few guidelines. The first guideline is that “good” is consistent with the God’s revelation…..