Business

Don't you just hate those 'body-language-analysts' who take every little gesture you make and translate it into some epic that reveals your inner soul? You instantly find yourself uncrossing your arms, legs and every other crossed part of your body, and screaming 'I'm NOT being defensive!!!'.

Listen to an interview on Prime Time America featuring 2 local Christian workplace fellowships in Bath and Scarborough. Great to hear stories of God's intervention being shared on a wider scale!

(GG2W piece between 1h08' and 1h18')

http://www.mbn.org/GenMoody/default.asp? sectionID=AD53896CDCF642AFA602040A5B9353 8C&archdate=07/30/2007&gti=0

Apparently, free ice-cream is the secret to office happiness (according to 30% of 18 -24 US workers).

A friend of mine recently shared how God had literally performed a miracle in her workplace. She works for an agency providing Care Centres. One of these was due for closure for various reasons, causing huge distress all round. After loads of prayers, and just before the crisis meeting, God turned up!

"I thought I was the only person this was happening to"
"I've been in the workplace for 20 years and never had an experience like it"
"I thought it was my fault - I was going mad"

I have been asked to speak at the business breakfast here in Bristol. Apparently I may know something about publishing, trends in the industry and what the impact is on Christian publishing/media.

Apparently...

I've spent the past days thinking about it and what's happening.

Here's a summary...

... and the winner is... Google!

Riding off the back of much recent publicity, Google is now the preferred company to work for in the US. Last year's winner, Genentech slips down to #2. So what is it people are looking for in these companies?

John Lewis, by all accounts, have enjoyed a stunning year, standing out from the rest of the retail business.

"Motivated staff providing good customer service which in turn produces higher sales and profits. Other retailers are learning the lesson."

It's a human problem. The problem of wanting the output of a situation and forgetting that the output comes from the inputs. We crave and desire the outputs of fame, glory, affirmation, wealth, faith even - but these things are not bestowed (well often not), but come through having focussed on the inputs.
When life is not working out how we want, when we sense we're not getting what we truly desire, its good to think about what we are inputting.