Years ago, Dean purchased his father’s company and took over the day-to-day leadership. Dean shared with me his fears about whether he would be able to lead his father’s company as successfully as his father. He also expressed fear that the wealth he was coming into might tempt him into actions he would later regret. ...

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When I was twenty-five, I started my first business. One year later I liquidated the business and felt like a failure. That led to a fear of ever starting another business. Yet, in 1995, God called me to start a new business. My fear of failure caused me to wrestle with God, doubting that I ...

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A common fear in business is the fear of rejection. Many people avoid making sales calls out of a fear of rejection. Avoidance seems to be a common approach to addressing possible rejection. Author and speaker, Jia Jiang, however, took a different approach. Jia performed a 100-day rejection experiment where he sought out rejection each ...

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Wilson Fauber has been a Virginia realtor for over forty years, yet he was recently found guilty of ethics violations by a National Association of Realtors ethics panel. Mr. Fauber’s crime – years earlier he quoted Bible verses about marriage and human sexuality on social media. According to christianpost.com, Mr. Fauber was charged with “hate ...

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Imagine the complexity of decisions that the Tik Tok CEO had to make the weekend of January 18th. Congress and the Supreme Court ruled that Tik Tok had to sell or close its operations in the United States. Risking thousands of jobs and businesses, Tik Tok closed. But then President Trump claimed he would find ...

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In the book, Every Good Endeavor, authors Timothy Keller and Katherine Alsdorf paint a picture of work as multi-beneficial. Work allows us to use our God-given talents to serve God, our employers and our customers. We also honor God by doing our work in a way that serves our professions and our communities. Psalm ...

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On any given workday, you will experience moments when reality conflicts with your expectations of how the world should be. Someone will give you “counsel” that you don’t want to hear (or believe is true). Someone will not perform his or her job the way you want. Someone will selfishly advance his or her ...

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After many years working in the communications department, I was promoted to lead the team. I was ecstatic. Finally, I could pursue the projects I wanted in the way that I wanted. But my immaturity quickly tripped me up. I launched changes that confused and upset team members and did little more than advance ...

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