We love to give back to an employer we respect. Sam Van Eman explores why by imagining a world where employers play...
The Carnegie name is well known, but who was Andrew Carnegie the man?
In our competitive American ethos, it’s hard not to be chosen. So what do you do when you lose?
The team Moses built would determine his success. And the same is true for any of us.
You can’t produce quality work at an eighty-hour a week pace.
It’s the time for resolutions. Why do we vow to change every January 1st—yet by February laugh at our high intentions? One reason is that profound change is so difficult.
Carl Pendleton, a three-year starter for the University of Oklahoma football team, gave up his final year of eligibility. He did it to pursue graduate school and to care for his ten-year-old...
Jim Thorpe was arguably the greatest American athlete of all time. He won the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Olympics. After that, he played pro baseball and football.
At the end of the Sermon on the Mount, we are told, “Now when Jesus had finished...
Sports are a gathering point for people, creating instant bonds.
The University of Hawaii has a graduate assistant football coach who can’t move or speak on his own. Brian Kajiyama has cerebral palsy. He buzzes the field in a motorized wheelchair. He speaks...
Gunter was reeling. The board of Mastech had brought him in as CEO to move the company forward. He had been selected...
In 30 Women of Faith conferences each year, Patsy Clairmont speaks in huge arenas to tens of thousands of women. She talks about her agoraphobia: fear of open spaces. During 17 years of anxiety,...
In your work experience, which common behaviors are plainly incompatible with faithful Christian living?
Sometimes all it takes to make an enemy into a friend is being willing to make the first move.
Leslie and Bill Marquard teach executives to learn more and decide better in less time. The key is collaboration. ...
In an office challenge, Bill was always the first to offer help . . . and the last to get taken up on his offer. You see, Bill knew how to solve problems...
Author Cameron Hawley was with his grandmother near the end of her life. One day she reminisced about her years as a young bride in the Dakota Territory in 1878. Hawley asked her...
Lyle Lovett is a Texas A&M graduate—from Klein, Texas—whose highly original blues/country/jazz/gospel music is known worldwide. Texas Monthly editor Evan Smith observes that Lovett’s "Large Band"...
At the age of 14, Scott Mooney was bitten by the entrepreneur bug. He started selling horse equipment out of his father's barn, then from a rented a location on a main street...
