As your company grows, you will find yourself exiting position after position turning them over to your successors.  One by one you will shed various positions and promote or hire your replacement. And though it may be hard to believe right now, one day you will leave the company altogether.   I am in that process…

In John 6:15-21, NKJV “Now when evening came, His disciples went down to the sea, got into the boat, and went over the sea toward Capernaum. And it was already dark, and Jesus had not come to them. Then the sea arose because a great wind was blowing. So when they had rowed about three…

Tom Watson Jr., CEO of IBM between 1956 and 1971, was a key figure in the information revolution. Watson repeatedly demonstrated his abilities as a leader. A young executive had made some bad decisions that cost the company several million dollars. He was summoned to Watson’s office, fully expecting to be dismissed. As he entered…

In Andy Stanley’s When Work and Family Collide, Stanley challenges the idea that families have to be sacrificed on the altar of work. Stanley acknowledges that there is not enough time to get everything done that we are convinced needs to be done at work. As a result, we often resort to the chaos of…

A six-year study that tracked British civil-servants had startling results: workers who put in an average of at least 11 hours per day at the office were two and a half times more likely to develop depression than their colleagues who clocked-out after working 7 to 8 hours. In another study, researchers analyzed workplace factors…