Wal-Mart. Deserving of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize?

The Most Generous Company in the World

Wal-Mart is a big target.  It gets bashed and ridiculed a lot, often by people who have never frequented a Wal-Mart store or been thankful that it was there to make a lot of things affordable.  And Wal-Mart doesn’t always get it right and deserves some of the criticisms.  Things go wrong in such a big organization (a pre-Christmas store stampede), but an organization that employs 1.8 million people, the size of many countries, must accept the fact that problems will occur.  Some will be of their own making and some will just happen.  But whatever criticisms we may level against Wal-Mart, we also need to be fair in acknowledging what it does do well.
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Dan Wooldridge  January 6, 2009
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Rules of the Garage

Call + Response

Psalm 35:3

From time to time we have to shake the dust off after a hard fall, and head back out to the garage to start over from scratch because the alternative is…there is no alternative…we’re workers; it’s what we do; it’s partly how we reflect God’s image (however faintly) embossed on us, and we are frustrated and disoriented until we find a way to create value

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Jim Hancock  January 5, 2009
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Howard Morrison wonders: Shouldn’t we be a people who long for God to speak, who listen to God while we work and rest and live our lives, and then periodically gather together as those whose souls have been spoken-to to respond with rejoicing? If that became our practice, corporate worship would be a response to God’s presence, more than a request for God presence.

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Howard Morrison  January 2, 2009
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Toward a Biblical Model of Economics

Healthy Corporate Cultures

11 Reasons to Design a Better Corporate Culture in 2009

InsideWork’s Geoff Finch is headed for some presentations to the finance ministers of a couple of countries that only a few years ago were dedicated socialist regimes. His underlying message to them was going to be that a free market/private enterprise system is a better model than a centrally planned and publicly operated economy. Now he’s not so sure he should cite the shining example of the US-style private markets to support his thesis. So what does he present as a good working model?

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Geoff Finch  January 1, 2009
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“The Ownership Quotient,” from Harvard Business School professors Jim Heskett and Earl Sasser and coauthor Joe Wheeler explores how “strong, adaptive cultures can foster innovation, productivity, and a sense of ownership among employees and customers.” Which got InsideWork’s Jim Hancock thinking about the questions we should be asking about the robustness of our corporate cultures.

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Jim Hancock  December 31, 2008
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Oh No! The Generic Family Holiday Christmas Letters are Coming! (Part Trois)

Understanding New Media and Social Media

A Quick Guide for the Bewildered

So here is my year-end anti-self-promoting Generic Holiday Newsletter. It’s chock-full of disappointments, bad news, and frightening developments. I ended up sending it to a handful of cynical friends like me; people I knew would appreciate it. I’m afraid the letter never made it to the address of the culprits who started all this. Maybe [...]

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Bradley J Moore  December 30, 2008
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Dan Wooldridge recommends a quick guide to new media and social media for InsideWork readers.

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Dan Wooldridge  December 29, 2008
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