Thanksgiving has been celebrated for hundreds of years, but Black Friday didn’t become a common label for what used to be the busiest shopping day of the year until 1981. Cyber Monday was proclaimed by the National Retail Federation in 2005 but has since become the biggest buying day of the year. Giving Tuesday, however, was not developed until 2012. ...
A young man recently called, desperately seeking any job that wouldn’t require him to be vaccinated. On the same day, Kathy and I spent time with a couple who refused to eat or drink at an event because it would require them to pull down their masks. The common denominator is fear. One is afraid of the vaccination, the other ...
Recently, I attended an event featuring Dr. Tony Evans. Dr. Evans described God’s preferred role for Christians in the race relations struggle by using a football analogy. During a football game, there are two teams who are in conflict by design. The referees, however, work for the National Football League. On the field, they are required to set aside their ...
Leading up to the first Labor Day celebration in the 1880s, a typical workweek was 10 hours a day, six to seven days a week. It wasn’t until 1938 when a 44-hour work week was mandated with overtime pay for over 44 hours. Changes came when employees were in great demand or had a better bargaining position because of labor ...
A recent discovery of mine is that nepotism isn’t just the hiring of a family member. Instead, according to the dictionary.com definition, Nepotism is “Favoritism granted to relatives or close friends, without regard to their merit.” For small business owners, family members are often a source of trusted labor. But to non-family staff, even diligent efforts to treat family members ...
In “Rare Leadership in the Workplace,” authors Marcus Warner and Jim Wilder unpack RARE as an acronym for how to become a mature leader. The first R stands for “Remain Relational.” While in public accounting, a manager thought I had undermined her authority. Instead of rebuking me personally and appropriately, I was called into the office so a partner and ...
This last year has felt more solemn and intense than any time I can remember. Laughter and joy seem harder to find. I haven’t thought much about April Fools Day since I was a teenager, but now might be a good time to bring some laughter into your workplace. Practical jokes can become dangerous if you get carried away, but ...
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