Service should be treated diligently at all organizations … not as an afterthought, but as a forethought.

Stephen Covey reiterated the importance of “sharpening the saw,” whereby you take time to refresh, reflect, and reskill.  Just like weightlifting requires rest and recovery for optimal performance, your vocation requires refreshment, reflection, and reskilling for optimal productivity.  Weightlifters must discipline themselves in their rest and recovery efforts every day, or they will suffer in […]

We all have more opportunities than we realize.  The young entrepreneur can expand his product line, or penetrate new markets, or explore an online counterpart to his business.  The soon-to-be-retiree can spend her retirement in Florida, or move closer to her grandchildren in Wisconsin, or travel around the United States in an RV.

I love the story of the gold digger provided in Think and Grow Rich.  An ambitious young man, passionate about the prospect of gold, discovers gold and marks the area where he initially discovered it.  He informs his family of the discovery, and with their financial help, purchases expensive equipment to cultivate the gold and […]

A quick reflection on the moral responsibility that Apple should claim for the iPhone’s personal and social effects. Ultimately, I contend that Apple can claim positive moral responsibility, but need not claim negative moral responsibility.