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BusinessPundit has a great post about leadership vs. cultural fit when an organization hires a new leader. The first paragraph below is quoted from CFO.com:
Shortly after stepping down as chief executive officer of IBM Corp. in 2002, Louis V. Gerstner addressed MBA students at Harvard Business School. “The thing I have learned at IBM,” […]

Alan Hartung shares some great thoughts about postmodernism and the nature of truth:
I think, if you look at cultural postmodernity, the meaning isn’t quite the same as what the philosophers throw about. For most, the issue isn’t really if there is an absolute truth (though the term is avoided because of the way it is […]

Chuck Colson of Prison Fellowship wrote a commentary about Jim Wallis of Sojourners. Highlights:
Wallis’s favorite argument, as reported in the Times and elsewhere, is that the Bible makes more than three thousand references to poverty—far more than abortion or homosexuality—and yet religious conservatives, in his opinion, are obsessed with the abortion issue. So, says […]

Two striking quotes from a Christianity Today article about WorldVision:
All that said, I was surprised and encouraged by the Christian conviction I found among World Vision’s top leadership. The 2004 Triennial Council in Bucharest was emphatically, unapologetically, and enthusiastically Christian. The strongest impetus seemed to come from African and Asian leaders, who make a growing […]

Great thoughts from Will:
But, as I sit here this morning, sipping my cocoa, in a big house in a neighborhood of big houses, with two Volvos parked outside, I am wondering how to live out the values of fair economics and sustainability in suburbia? In this world of The Gap and McDonalds, surrounded by McHouses […]

Great thoughts from TallSkinnyKiwi:
Why do i not have a hit counter on my site? Because i dont like them - I think they often stroke the ego of the blogger and they turn people into numbers which can be turned into power. I dont like it when churches do this (me more powerful because me […]