A recent Harvard Business Review article discussed slowing down our culture of busyness. One idea the author recommends is to build slack into your system. This article defined four practical steps that could help businesses build slack into their systems. The first step is budgeting for enhanced resources such as time, space, people, and equipment. Secondly, you can reallocate your ...
As many desk jobs have been moved to home offices, overworking has become a greater challenge for many people. A recent blog from Teamwork suggests that the “work from home-ers” interviewed have “spent most of their day on work and haven’t properly managed to switch off and unwind.” The close proximity of the office, now being in-home, requires a higher-level ...
For 15 years, Dan, a former investment banker, traveled the globe working on mergers and acquisitions. Dan worked 110 hours a week on a frequent basis striving for “the big money.” As he began seeing the financial fruit of those long hours, Dan realized it wasn’t making him any happier. Dan began looking for a role model in his industry ...
A recent study published by Harvard suggests that the average executive in the US works 62.5 hours per week. Quick math shows that to be 12.5 hours per day in a work week. Why then is there a sense of shame that surrounds the inability to stay on top of it all? Psalm 127: 2 says, “It is in vain ...
One of Harvard Business Review’s management tips was about setting healthy standards of work for your team. Harvard highlighted three tips on how leaders can help their team have healthy boundaries. First, as the leader, set a good example. Remember the impact sending late night emails to staff or never taking a lunch break can have. Second, plan extra time ...
Years ago, I visited Tel Aviv on the Sabbath. Our hotel knew they had many Jewish guests who observed the Sabbath, so they prepared accordingly. The elevator was programmed to stop on each floor automatically so that observant Jews didn’t violate the Sabbath. In Exodus 16:23, Moses told the Jews to prepare their manna for the Sabbath. He said, “Tomorrow ...
A Society for Human Resource Management survey revealed that 94% of Human Resource professionals believe vacations are important. Many unknowingly, however, undermine the practice of employees taking vacation. Some organizations allow employees to rollover unused vacation days to the following year. When organizations rollover vacation days, only 65% of their employees use the majority of their vacation time. But, for ...
A recent article by CNBC stated, “companies are facing an employee burnout crisis, 23% feel burned out at work often or always.” The article suggests employee burnout is fostered by company culture and 24/7 access to work via email, text and cell phones. The report supports a biblical principle of Sabbath that is well known, but often ignored due to ...
In this series we are examining what we can learn from Jesus’ last week on earth in helping us address trials. There’s a saying that we are either heading into a trial, in a trial, or exiting a trial. Jesus spent three days in the grave before His resurrection. He was victorious over death, but just like Jonah, He spent ...
Friar Joe Mazzone, a Catholic pastor in Stoughton, Massachusetts, recently wrote, “We should have a good “work ethic,” yes, but we should also have a good “leisure ethic,” too, to find time to “get away and rest awhile.” He referenced Josef Pieper, a German Catholic philosopher, who once wrote a famous and influential essay titled “Leisure: The Basis of Culture.” ...
Equipping Others to Do Work Differently
