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03 Jun #019 – Blue Pill Brokenness – Work As Usual

Posted at 09:00h in Beautify the World, Glorify God, Humanize People, Integriosity Blog, Re-Align by Paul Michalski 0 Comments

We call the blue pill "business as usual", and the last several posts have shown ways in which it is broken. If a business is just an association of human beings working together (which it is), is it any surprise that "work as usual" would...

27 May #018 – Business As Usual Problems- “Scarcity”, “Self-Interest” and the Real Problem

Posted at 09:45h in Beautify the World, Glorify God, Humanize People, Integriosity Blog, Renew by Paul Michalski 0 Comments

Of the various aspects of blue pill "business as usual" that contribute to workplace and worker brokenness, Profit as Purpose is the most significant, but the Scarcity assumption and the Self Interest assumption exacerbate the problems by ignoring why we were created and whose image...

20 May #017 – Business As Usual Problems- “Profit” Problems

Posted at 09:00h in Beautify the World, Glorify God, Humanize People, Integriosity Blog, Renew by Paul Michalski 0 Comments

Profit is not a problem, just like money is not the root of all evil. In fact, profit is necessary for a business operating in a market economy--without it you don't have a sustainable organization or access to financial capital. But (and it is a...

13 May #016 – Blue Pill Brokenness – Business As Usual – “Can We” Ethics

Posted at 09:00h in Beautify the World, Glorify God, Humanize People, Integriosity Blog by Paul Michalski 0 Comments

In addition to Profit as Purpose, Scarcity and Self Interest, the fourth aspect of "business as usual" that we believe leads to workplace and worker brokenness is a "Can We" Culture--an organizational culture in which ends justify means and ethics or the law are seen as...

06 May #015 – Blue Pill Brokenness – Business As Usual – Self Interest

Posted at 09:00h in Humanize People, Integriosity Blog, Renew by Paul Michalski 0 Comments

In addition to Profit as Purpose and Scarcity, another aspect of "business as usual" that leads to brokenness is "Self-Interest"--the assumption that people are self-interested and will act in their own self-interest. This is closely tied to the scarcity assumption. In a blue pill...

29 Apr #014 – Blue Pill Brokenness – Business As Usual – Scarcity

Posted at 09:00h in Integriosity Blog, Re-Align, Renew by Paul Michalski 0 Comments

In addition to "Profit as Purpose", another aspect of "business as usual" that leads to brokenness is "Scarcity"--the assumption that resources are scarce and everything is a zero-sum situation (my gain is your loss and vice versa). Importantly for Integriosity, a scarcity mindset in...

22 Apr #013 – Blue Pill Brokenness – Business As Usual – Profit as Purpose

Posted at 09:00h in Integriosity Blog, Re-Align, Renew by Paul Michalski 0 Comments

At Integrous, we believe there are four key aspects of "business as usual" that lead to its brokenness, and the most important of these is "Profit as Purpose"--the idea that the primary or sole purpose of "business as usual" is the maximization of financial profit...

15 Apr #012 – Blue Pill Brokenness – Business As Usual

Posted at 09:00h in Beautify the World, Glorify God, Humanize People, Integriosity Blog, Re-Align by Paul Michalski 0 Comments

We call the blue pill "business as usual", and it is broken. At Integrous, we believe there are four key aspects of "business as usual" that lead to brokenness: Profit as Purpose; Scarcity; Self-Interest; and "Can We" Ethics....

08 Apr #011 – Integriosity – The Demand

Posted at 09:00h in Integriosity Blog, Renew by Paul Michalski 0 Comments

With headlines suggesting faith is under unceasing attack by an increasingly secular society, it might be easy to conclude that pursuing Integriosity by aligning an organization's mission, values and culture with Biblical principles would be business suicide--alienating stakeholders such as employees and customers. We at...

03 Apr Special #001 – Let’s Free Work From the “Money Box”

Posted at 09:00h in Beautify the World, Glorify God, Humanize People, Integriosity Blog, Renew by Paul Michalski 0 Comments

We were designed to work--to use our gifts of creativity and productivity--it is part of being fully human. If we are not working and earning an income, we can feel empty and insecure (this is a special post prompted by the Covid-19 crisis tagging 10,000,000 people...

01 Apr #010 – Integriosity – The Need – Mind the “Gaps”

Posted at 09:00h in Integriosity Blog, Renew by Paul Michalski 0 Comments

In England, riders on the "Tube" (aka the Underground or the subway) are famously warned to "mind the gap". People serious about integrity and faith/work integration should heed the same warning. At Integrous, we believe there are THREE gaps to cross, and we want to...

25 Mar #009 – Integriosity – The Need – Workers are Breaking

Posted at 09:00h in Humanize People, Integriosity Blog by Paul Michalski 0 Comments

The United States is facing an epidemic of loneliness, isolation, confusion, distrust and dissatisfaction (pre-Covid-19). It is clear that the blue pill of "business as usual" has become "dehumanizing" and has moved far from its original design in Genesis as something good. We believe...

18 Mar #008 – Integriosity – The Need – Workplaces are Broken

Posted at 09:00h in Glorify God, Humanize People, Integriosity Blog by Paul Michalski 0 Comments

There is no shortage of statistics showing that most workers feel disengaged and disconnected from the activity that was intended to bring flourishing and fulfillment by unleashing their God-given creativity and productivity. Central to the the red pill of Integriosity® is humanizing people by redeeming...

11 Mar #007 – Integriosity – The Need – Work is Broken

Posted at 09:00h in Integriosity Blog, Renew by Paul Michalski 0 Comments

One of the reasons faith/work integration and the the red pill of Integriosity® are needed is because "work" is broken and "business as usual" has led to our relationship to work and our relationships surrounding work bearing little resemblance to God's design for humanity and...

04 Mar #006 – Integriosity – The Basics – Fruit

Posted at 09:00h in Beautify the World, Glorify God, Humanize People, Integriosity Blog, Restore by Paul Michalski 0 Comments

The fruit of Step 4 of Integriosity® - "Restore" - is to see what we believe are the three bigger WHY's of work and business materialize and manifest in the organization: Humanize People, Beautify the World and Glorify God....

26 Feb #005 – Integriosity – The Basics – Process

Posted at 09:00h in Integriosity Blog, Re-Align, Re-Imagine, Renew, Restore by Paul Michalski 0 Comments

There are four stages in the process toward Integriosity®: Renew, Re-Imagine, Re-Align and Restore. The most critical is Renew because it creates the sound foundation. As part of Renewal, we believe four key "mind-shifts" are critical to staying on the path to the...

19 Feb #004 – Integriosity – The Basics – Goal

Posted at 09:00h in Integriosity Blog by Paul Michalski 0 Comments

The core of Integriosity® is an alignment of purpose, values and culture arising from a commitment to Biblical beliefs, values and priorities that leads a person or organization, instinctively, to do the right things, for the right reasons and in the right ways....

12 Feb #003 – Integriosity – The Basics – Genesis

Posted at 09:00h in Integriosity Blog by Paul Michalski 0 Comments

We made up the word “Integriosity®” to capture the goal of living out faithful integrity, including having a “Why” centered on loving and serving others with generosity. ...

05 Feb #002 – Integriosity – The Choice

Posted at 09:00h in Integriosity Blog by Paul Michalski 0 Comments

In the movie The Matrix, the character Morpheus offers Neo a choice of two pills--blue and red. At Integrous, we believe faith-inspired leaders have a similar choice. Like Neo, we hope you will choose Red--the "ancient path" of Business a Better Way....

29 Jan #001 – Integriosity – The Foundation

Posted at 13:30h in Integriosity Blog by Paul Michalski 0 Comments

We believe there are many leaders who are guided by the Bible in their personal lives and sincerely want to live an integrated faith life at work. Sadly, many are confused or frustrated or even intimidated. Some have given up. Others think they are doing...