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I am on my last hurrah here. I have announced my retirement and the board has accepted it. Don’t let me accept the chairmanship they offer, but rather allow my successor the same latitude I had in establishing my leadership. I can be available as a consultant to my successor as desired, but not be…
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Timeless God, I have been in this role for a good deal of time. How will I know when it is time to let someone else be in charge? I have not accomplished everything that I would have liked, but our team has done pretty well growing the business, establishing a healthy climate and inculcating
When I realize I will not be CEO Read More »
Lord, I have aspired to greater responsibility and the possible leadership of a great enterprise. I have been well mentored. My knowledge of the market and our organization has positioned me to be a worthy contender to eventually become chief executive. I have experienced the dwindling number of candidates for this prize as the performance
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God of the ages, it is possible for us to be carried away by our own importance, by the way our thoughts are turned into action by those we lead. We can be justifiably proud of our accomplishments, the revenue and profit that our company earns, by the esteem our organization commands and our own
Immanent God, do you actually speak to us? Do we just talk at you or is there a real dialog? How do we know if and when you are speaking to us? Sceptics think we are just speaking into the ionosphere and practicing a grand illusion. Our forbearers seemed to be ok speaking and listening
Facing Crises: Losing a Big Customer Read More »
God of relationships, I fear we may lose a big customer on whom we rely for revenue. I have always been afraid that too much of our performance was based upon this one entity; but we have not been successful diversifying. A couple of things worry me. One is that we had a glitch in
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Facing Crises: Poor Results Read More »
Righteous God, we have troubles. We have had two quarters of flat performance and we budgeted for double digit growth. We hired for it, we marketed for it and it has not happened yet. I am not the only one losing sleep as we try to dig out. I prefer to hold our investment in
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Jesuit-Ignatian spirituality uses a practice called examen to recap the day or the week. The outline and explanation for the examen can be found online (https://www.ignatianspirituality.com/19076/examen-prayer-card) but here is a brief introduction. Follow these steps each night or at the end of each week, Ask God for light. I want to look at my day
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My job is to help people read “The Handwriting on the Wall.” In Daniel 5, King Belshazzar has a Feast for a thousand of his closest friends. During the banquet, a human hand appears and writes on the wall. The King and the couriers are frightened, of course. The King asks can anyone read the
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Hymn by St. Francis of Assisi All creatures of our God and King, lift up your voice and with us sing Alleluia! Alleluia! Thou burning sun with golden beam, thou silver moon with softer gleam, O praise Him, O praise Him! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! 2 Thou rushing wind that art so strong, ye clouds that