Failure comes in many forms—some easier to deal with than others. You take on a challenge at work that turns out to be too much for you to handle. Though your business plan...
At five o'clock each morning, the Benedictine monks of Weston Priory in Weston, Vermont, gather to pray and sing. Like the sun yawning over the horizon, from their rural home, these good men extend...
In the 1970 Tony Award-winning musical Applause, the Broadway cast sings: "What is it that we're living for? Applause! Applause!" The song is repeated periodically throughout the play, leaving no...
Teamwork is more than working together. It's sharing each other's burdens. It's also sharing each other's joys when the time comes to...
"Of course, there is great gain in godliness combined with contentment." (1 Tim. 6:6)The teenagers at my church like to play a...
Just a few years ago in Wichita, Kansas, a man known as "the BTK Killer" (bind, torture, kill) was sentenced to 175 years in prison. Dennis Rader listened almost passively as the judge pronounced...
My friend Earl Palmer once visited a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier. When it came time to go, he boarded a small plane. The young pilot described what their launch by catapult would feel like.
As head of the Atlanta-based PR consultancy The DeMoss Group, Mark DeMoss trades in right words and good judgment. In The Little...
Kenneth Burenga was 44 years old when he was named general manager of the Dow Jones & Company, Inc. and its flagship...
Ken was a mid-level manager with high-level ambitions. After receiving steady promotions at a media company, he had his eye on a corner office. So he was delighted when the "suits" on the 17th...
Leadership is about challenge not comfort, adventure not safety. That's why strong leaders often create some anxiety. Leadership moves a community to the place where answers are not easy to find....
We may not care to admit it, but we are heavily influenced by those who lead us every day. Employees reporting to managers, managers reporting to directors, directors reporting to vice presidents...
"The eye cannot say to the hand, ‘I have no need of you, 'nor again the head to the feet, 'I have no need of you.'" (1 Cor. 12:21, NRSV) We've worked closely...
It all began with the woman whose lover would be coming after me, she announced, with a knife.And that was just opening...
I stand in line at the copy machine behind a secretary. He turns to me and says. "Oh, Dr. de Vinck, I didn't see you. Here. Let me give you the machine." I...
It was hard to watch my fifth-grade basketball team lose again. In nine years of volunteering to coach elementary- and middle-school teams, I've only had one other team lose so many times. A group...
I like reading the acknowledgments page in a book. I enjoy seeing the names of friends, family members, mentors, and others who...
For most of my adult life I have heard people use the phrase "he was his own worst enemy" without ever thinking it might be applied to me. ...
The Spalding company didn't create the baseball as we know it. A boy, the son of a shoemaker, first thought up that legendary stitch-and-curve pattern. Young Ellis Drake was doodling in the...
Imagine you entered a concert hall where a symphony orchestra sat ready to play, but half of the members had their hands tied behind their backs. You’d know something was terribly wrong. Surely...
