Brad is a CFO who believed that his CEO was being deceptive with an investor. Brad believed that since the projections for the project didn’t materialize as planned that the CEO was deceiving the investor. After listening, I suspected that Brad’s CEO was a big picture person that just viewed it as a missed estimate. While Brad’s rigid outlook assumed ...
Business leaders frequently make decisions that can impact many jobs and lives. Making good decisions is hard when facts are in short supply. Facts seem harder to come by lately. News sources and social media frequently report only a biased view, sometimes even editing content to manipulate the outcome. Even science has been politicized, leaving the public confused on what’s ...
When you hear the word prophet, what do you think? Is it this strange person who tells the future, and it’s all doom and gloom? Historically, prophets were advisors and teachers intended to serve the king by providing truth, honest feedback, advice and instruction. Truth is both positive and negative, celebratory and critical. Can you think of three to five ...
According to a recent Pew Research poll, 50% of Americans view made-up news as a very big problem for the country. Fake news has become a bigger concern than racism, illegal immigration, terrorism, or sexism. Fake news has undermined our trust in the media. Journalism was once defined by presenting unbiased facts. If our reporter’s still provided unbiased facts instead ...
According to an Association of Psychological Science article, there are three critical elements in an apology when customers are wronged. The second element is an explanation why the problem occurred. Kathy and I went to a new restaurant. The tables were covered in dishes and no one seated us. We considered leaving when the owner came over and apologized. He ...
Years ago, I worked in an office building with multiple organizations near each other. Ours became a tight-knit community with friendships, barbeques and other fun events throughout the year. Then, Jane was hired to work at one of the organizations. Jane began sharing with me negative comments she claimed others in the building had said about me, causing my relationships ...
A recent article from the Lean Methods Group states, “Every day, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created.” Accessibility to incredible amounts of information feels paralyzing. Metrics, reports, figures to analyze, presentations to peruse. But where is Truth? As a nation, our familiarity and intimacy with the Truth of the Bible has woefully sunk into the sea of bytes. We ...
Each year, in March, we move our clocks forward an hour to provide for more afternoon sunlight during the summer. This has been labeled Daylight Savings Time. In the fall, we reverse the process consuming an hour of sunlight, yet we still label that day, Daylight Savings Time. Imagine if they changed the name in the fall to Daylight Consuming ...
Del Tackett, creator of the Truth Project, played a video at a conference I attended that revealed how ridiculous tolerance has become. A 5 foot 9 inch white man told college students that he was a 6 foot 5 inch Chinese woman to see if he could get any students to correct his lie. Instead, each person virtually affirmed his ...
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