It's not always easy to keep team morale high. Sometimes something as simple as working with a colleague who is in a bad mood or is having a bad day (go easy on them... it happens to the best of us!) can cause team spirit to nosedive. Luckily, these kinds of moods can be broken relatively […]
When I was an intern on a small-town newspaper, I found a perfect recipe for disaster... or at least some very bad behavior in the workplace. I didn't tweak the overnight lending rate to make billions of dollars, or plunder the pensions of my co-workers to buy a super-yacht. No, the ingredients for this particular act of folly […]
A Story of Purpose Desmond Doss, a young American, wanted to serve his country as a soldier during the Second World War. In 1942 he was drafted into the army for basic training. During training, Desmond refused to handle a weapon. When his officers realized that he didn't want to bear arms, they tried to […]