Monday, January 19, 2009

Thoughts on a new blog

I'm thinking about a new blog. I giving advice to a student about workplace communication, and I realized that there are some pieces of advice I can give regardless of value commitments, but there are other times when values play an important role in giving advice. Let me explain that. There are sometimes when we face a choice in the workplace (also happens in other contexts as well). We can stand for our values or we can be ambitious and advance our careers. We try to do both and most of the time that works well. But my student was at the point where he had to choose. I started telling him how he could "play the Game," a practice I condemn in my ethics class, and I was planning to post such advice on my organizational communication blog. Then I realized how at odds my advice was with my values and faith-beliefs. I don't want my other blog to have any appearance of pushing my faith on anyone else, but it got me thinking about how faith and work interrelate. So I'm thinking of starting a blog to explore those ideas. I doubt it will be something I post to as regularly as the two that I have going now, but it'll be a great place to keep those ideas together.

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