Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Monday, October 4, 2010
Purpose
The human mind plans the way, but the Lord directs the steps. — Proverbs 16:9 NRSV
"I want a reason to get up in the morning. When I ask God for a sense of personal destiny, and then listen carefully, I get a sense of direction. Not always, and not always immediately, but I rely on God’s promise to consistently guide me toward fulfilling the purpose for which he created me.
I know that nothing any of us experiences is pointless or useless. The good, the bad, the ugly, even the things we think will kill us—God uses it all, and he devises our destiny out of the stuff in our trash. He sifts it out, shows us the value, and then uses us to help others because of it.
When we look at the desires of our hearts in light of reality, we know none of them is achievable all the time. They’re changeable, like the weather. Some days we’re content; others we’re not. There are places in the world we feel completely at home, others less so. There are even days when we wonder if we have a purpose at all, and the uncertainty lingers for a while. But our desires give shape and substance to our unique essences. And when we pray out of the depth of those desires, our faith is strengthened and our fellowship with the Lord is sweeter."
— Luci Swindoll
Excerpted from A Grand New Day © 2008 by Thomas Nelson. Published in Nashville, Tennessee, by Thomas Nelson. Used with permission. All rights reserved.
"I want a reason to get up in the morning. When I ask God for a sense of personal destiny, and then listen carefully, I get a sense of direction. Not always, and not always immediately, but I rely on God’s promise to consistently guide me toward fulfilling the purpose for which he created me.
I know that nothing any of us experiences is pointless or useless. The good, the bad, the ugly, even the things we think will kill us—God uses it all, and he devises our destiny out of the stuff in our trash. He sifts it out, shows us the value, and then uses us to help others because of it.
When we look at the desires of our hearts in light of reality, we know none of them is achievable all the time. They’re changeable, like the weather. Some days we’re content; others we’re not. There are places in the world we feel completely at home, others less so. There are even days when we wonder if we have a purpose at all, and the uncertainty lingers for a while. But our desires give shape and substance to our unique essences. And when we pray out of the depth of those desires, our faith is strengthened and our fellowship with the Lord is sweeter."
— Luci Swindoll
Excerpted from A Grand New Day © 2008 by Thomas Nelson. Published in Nashville, Tennessee, by Thomas Nelson. Used with permission. All rights reserved.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
RE: Enforcing Policies in the Workplace
"...what we usually seek in the workplace is cooperation, NOT compliance. There is an important distinction between those two that is often forgotten. Employing coercion, threat, and guilt increases resistance, not only to the specific demand for change, but also to the whole change process. REMEMBER . . .You can force compliance, you can purchase compliance, you can even weedle others into compliance, but compliance is NOT cooperation. “Just because you have silenced a man, don’t think you have converted him.”
This was a response for the Stanford Prison Experiment, http://www.prisonexp.org, that we studied in Ethics class. The question wanted to know how you ethically gain compliance from employees to follow the company policies... I found the above response from another student interesting. It's a fact that you can't please everyone, so policies don't go over well with some... and how to gain 'cooperation' is tricky.
This was a response for the Stanford Prison Experiment, http://www.prisonexp.org, that we studied in Ethics class. The question wanted to know how you ethically gain compliance from employees to follow the company policies... I found the above response from another student interesting. It's a fact that you can't please everyone, so policies don't go over well with some... and how to gain 'cooperation' is tricky.
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