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Craig Mattson

Craig Mattson

Your Job’s Just Not That into You. And That’s Ok.

Workplace journalism today makes the Great Resignation sound like a Bad Breakup. Americans aren’t just leaving their jobs; they’re…

Nov 29, 2021

Your Job’s Just Not That into You. And That’s Ok.

Nov 29, 2021

Craig Mattson

Mode Switching

Thirty years ago, I inscribed a line from John Milton in a spiral-bound college notebook:

Nov 16, 2021

Mode Switching

Nov 16, 2021

Craig Mattson

When Empathy’s Not Enough

What do you do when, as an organizational leader, you’re just not that good at performing compassion? Should you look for other work? Or…

Nov 11, 2021

When Empathy’s Not Enough

Nov 11, 2021

Craig Mattson

A Condition Worse than Burnout

Anne Helen Peterson’s 2020 book Can’t Even asks, “How Work Got So Shitty.” She notes the strange fact that more and more of us work longer…

Oct 28, 2021

A Condition Worse than Burnout

Oct 28, 2021

Craig Mattson

Surviving Inattention in an Attention Economy

Richard Lanham has argued that in an Information Society the one great shortage is attention. You’re struggling to read even the first…

Oct 20, 2021

Surviving Inattention in an Attention Economy

Oct 20, 2021

Craig Mattson

The Edges of Epiphany, or Why Inspirational Storytelling Isn’t Enough

Concentric circles of chairs surround me, each filled with a human whose face and form I can make out in the darkness, if I stare with an…

Oct 11, 2021

The Edges of Epiphany, or Why Inspirational Storytelling Isn’t Enough

Oct 11, 2021

Craig Mattson

Why Effective Altruism Might Not Be

This morning, I caught the latest episode of the Ezra Klein Show, a conversation with Holden Karnofsky, one of the founders of GiveWell and…

Oct 5, 2021

Why Effective Altruism Might Not Be

Oct 5, 2021

Craig Mattson

Why Organizational Spirituality Seems Extra

Mention personal wellness to an organizational leader, and I predict they’ll give you something between a nod and a grimace. They’ll nod…

Sep 30, 2021

Why Organizational Spirituality Seems Extra

Sep 30, 2021

Craig Mattson

Why Write 1000 Words a Day?

Over the past couple of years, I’ve been working on a book project about the spiritual lives of organizations — that’s the background for…

Jan 12, 2021

Why Write 1000 Words a Day?

Jan 12, 2021

Craig Mattson

Why Organizational Spirituality’s Not about Self-Care

I don’t remember how old I was when somebody told me a story about a rabbi who was telling stories to a huge crowd. His stories tumbled…

Jan 12, 2021

Why Organizational Spirituality’s Not about Self-Care

Jan 12, 2021

Craig Mattson

Craig Mattson

My book Why Spiritual Capital Matters explores spirituality in orgs & their places. I teach communication at Trinity Christian College.

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