by Rob Tribken | Oct 22, 2025 | Spiritual Practices, Working Well
Most people who have been in a state of flow, a.k.a. “being in the zone,” remember it as quite enjoyable. It is often associated with focused attention, peak effectiveness, and maybe even a sense of joy. We might remember feeling time had slowed down, at...
by Rob Tribken | Jun 3, 2024 | Spiritual Aspects of Leadership, Working Well
Successful Collaboration Depends on the Values We Bring to Our Work I attended a dinner meeting sponsored by a Christian business group a few years ago. After dinner, the organizers asked us to go around the room and discuss the issues we face in our work. One young...
by Rob Tribken | May 27, 2021 | Workplace Stress
(Link to related podcast here) After a prolonged struggle with King Ahab and the priests of Baal, the great prophet Elijah was completely exhausted. He journeyed by himself into the desert and asked God to take his life; he then lay down under a broom tree and fell...
by Rob Tribken | Mar 30, 2019 | Workplace Stress
Topic: Freedom from Anxious Thoughts and Feelings: A Two-Step Mindfulness Approach for Moving Beyond Fear and Worry Dr. Scott Symington previewed his forthcoming new book Freedom from Anxious Thoughts and Feelings: A Two-Step Mindfulness Approach for Moving Beyond...
by Rob Tribken | Jan 10, 2019 | Spiritual Aspects of Leadership, Working Well
Topic: The Power of Humility in the Workplace: When Does It Help? When Does It Hurt? On October 30, 2018, Dr. Peter Hill spoke to our first Work Life Forum at La Cañada Presbyterian Church and presented the results of new research he and a multi-university team have...
by Rob Tribken | Jul 13, 2018 | Working Well, Workplace Stress
“I never have enough time.” When people talk about their more frustrating work-related problems, the issue of time, or the lack of it, comes up most often. For many people, there is not enough time to get their work done and this can be a serious and chronic source of...
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...
