Faith, family, work, and life - all intertwined.
Permanent deacon of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois. Husband, father of four sons, builder of Catholic technology, and writer of essays, fiction, and homilies.
Every Catholic institution I have worked in or with has a shadow system.The business manager's Excel sheet of major donors, carefully maintained for years, beca
Three candidates for a parish administrator role. The parish hires the easy one. Six months later, the role isn't working. Here's why - and how to stop it.
Two parish secretaries on day one - one a stranger, one in the pews for twenty years - both fail the same way. The mission statement is why. And the hire you're trying to make is the second half.
Two institutions, two different technology failures, the same underlying mistake. The question before the system turns out to have four parts. And a fifth.
The meeting runs long. Everyone shares updates. Good conversation happens. And then no decision is actually made - because nobody in the room owns the discipline.
Most Catholic institutions can answer what they exist to do, richly and honestly - and differently from every seat. The question is whether they have woven them into one.
Two expected payoffs don't materialize when you wait to ship something whole. Three quieter ones actually do. On what the wait actually buys you.
Last week I promised a new offering would open for booking today. It isn't. Here's the decision behind the delay - and why the delay is itself the essay.
Last week I wrote about the two ways honest people answer the identity question wrong - the role trap and the wound trap. A lot of you wrote back. Some of you s
When I first took a Director role at Adobe, I thought I knew what I was saying yes to. I didn't. On the two traps that catch honest people in a career transition - and what the identity question actually wants.
He sat down and told me he thought he was done climbing. He wasn't sure he was allowed to say that. What surfaced next changed how I think about every career decision - my own included.
