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Cultivating Healthy Business Relationships

Posted on February 14, 2011December 4, 2019 by Michael Rose
Andrea owns and operates an online retail store.  A significant part of her value proposition, that which brings value to her customers and distinguishes her from other online retailers, is a commitment to relational retailing. The challenge many critics of e-commerce have is the impersonal aspect; cold and mechanical but Andrea through careful planning has...
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  • Defence Mechanisms – Hiding from God
    October 10, 2014

    Defence Mechanisms – Hiding from God

    Ever wonder why as rational and educated as we are, we still seem to play the silliest irrational games - avoiding, denying, rationalizing, spinning? Sometimes it all looks so screwy, but many of these are attempts to protect ourselves. Often, as a defence mechanism, we hide behind masks that, in many cases, have been carefully...
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  • How Meaning Inspires Overcoming
    November 7, 2012

    How Meaning Inspires Overcoming

    “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” - Dr. Viktor Frankl Viktor Frankl, the founder of Logo-therapy (aka Meaning Therapy) was interned in a Nazi concentration camp as a laborer.    The living...
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  • Power of Wonder – Secret to Deep Faith
    August 12, 2014

    Power of Wonder – Secret to Deep Faith

    An often overlooked aspect of faith is wonder.   When we talk about wonder we are thinking specifically about three postures; standing in disbelief, standing in the question itself and standing in awe or amazement of something. Wonder positions us to be open spiritually - this doesn’t mean non-discerning but an openness to learn, to...
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