by Rob Tribken | Mar 7, 2017 | Finding Purpose, Podcasts, Role of the Church
The story of the wise men – – also known as the Magi – – is one of the great stories of the Bible. The late James Dittes of Yale saw in the story a battle between two conflicting aspects of our human nature, a drive for stability and control, and a drive to forsake...
by Rob Tribken | Feb 22, 2017 | Spiritual Practices, Workplace Stress
Maybe your body can help. There’s a lot of talk about spiritual practices, especially prayer and meditation, that can help us deal with stress. But there’s another approach that might help — connecting with our bodies. In a recent Harvard Business...
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 12, 2017 | Finding Purpose, Podcasts, Workplace Stress
Most of us have had times when we seem to be going backwards in our career or in our work life. Or maybe times when we seemed to be dead in the water while everyone else was moving forward. But in these situations are we really moving backwards? Or might there be...
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 3, 2017 | Podcasts, Spiritual Practices
Become alert to the spiritual dimension in your daily life. There are spiritual practices that might help us become alert to the spiritual aspects of our daily lives; one especially powerful one is called the Examen. The Examen was developed by Ignatius of Loyola...
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...
