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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…

5 min readNov 29, 2021

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

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Craig Mattson

Mode Switching

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

4 min readNov 16, 2021

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Mode Switching

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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…

5 min readNov 11, 2021

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When Empathy’s Not Enough

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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…

4 min readOct 28, 2021

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A Condition Worse than Burnout

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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…

5 min readOct 20, 2021

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Surviving Inattention in an Attention Economy

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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…

6 min readOct 11, 2021

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

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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…

4 min readOct 5, 2021

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Why Effective Altruism Might Not Be

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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…

4 min readSep 30, 2021

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Why Organizational Spirituality Seems Extra

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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…

4 min readJan 12, 2021

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Why Write 1000 Words a Day?

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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…

3 min readJan 12, 2021

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Why Organizational Spirituality’s Not about Self-Care

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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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