We all know the saying: “It’s just business!” But what does it mean? To pick two cynical examples: A company sees a loophole where it can avoid paying royalties to an inventor. So, it doesn’t pay. Why? It’s just business! Or, a company has no confidentiality clause set up for dismissed workers. So, they feel...
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To be human is to work,[1] and to work is to be shaped by that work.[2] All our work will be judged by God.[3] All our work is meant to be done as an act of worship of God,[4] and to serve others.[5] These basic ideas about how my faith interacts with my work inform...
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FIRE, standing for “Financial Independence, Retire Early,” has risen in popularity, especially among younger adults. The idea is that achieving financial independence quickly leads to a happier life, as it enables us to spend the rest of our life not needing to work. I get it. I remember one day when my wife Esther and...
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Tacos and tortillas are easy. And adios is like that. But what about las golondrinas? and Sacramento? Having grown up in California, I began to learn Spanish in the second grade, making my way through elementary letters and numbers, year by year learning something of the complexity of another language. And while I never became...
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Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in November of 2016. When I was a boy, my grandfather and I spent summers buying cattle throughout Colorado. Mostly of course, he was the buyer, but there were moments when, with a certain twinkle in his eye, he would let me be the bidder, nudging me to...
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What is business about anyway? What is its point? Most of ten years ago I was invited to a breakfast with two executives from the Mars Corp who wanted to talk about an idea. We began with what seemed a very unusual question: how much money should Mars make the next year? And as I...
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