by Rob Tribken | Feb 18, 2017 | Finding Purpose
I received the sad news that Michael Novak died Thursday. Novak was an outstanding scholar and the author of numerous books, among them The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism and Business as a Calling:Work and the Examined Life. He was also a kind, thoughtful person and...
by Rob Tribken | Feb 10, 2017 | Markets, Enterprise, and Wellbeing
Three weeks ago I had the pleasure of hearing psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi speak at the Western Positive Psychology Association conference. Csikszentmihalyi is one of the founders of positive psychology (with Martin Seligman) and is well known and highly...
by Rob Tribken | Feb 10, 2017 | Markets, Enterprise, and Wellbeing
This month’s Reason Magazine (March, 2017) has a very interesting article by Francisco Toro on the bad seeds of Uganda. He means bad seeds literally – – seeds that do not germinate when planted. I have a special interest in what Toro has to say about this...
by Rob Tribken | Feb 2, 2017 | Finding Purpose, Working Well
From a sermon preached by Ralph Waldo Emerson at the Second Church, Boston, October 21, 1832: How many men now regard their business as so much interruption, as so much injury to their religious life? Their religious character is something separate from their daily...