![]() The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.īut you know what? We change lives. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.” My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. “Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. While America has coined the phrase “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” it is an aspiration for everyone in the world.Ībout a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”: It is a call for empathy – an identification of this generation’s needs for housing, health care, and basic rights. Putting down tools gives us time to reflect, to reassess what really matters to a society. The “bottom line” speaks to profits and margins, but the bottom line is that a business isn’t successful without a value system that prioritizes people.“Workers of the world, unite!” isn’t just the bookend to a communist’s manifesto. But it can also be a crucial part of a restoration of community. While elements of America’s strongly capitalistic society have bristled at them, a Gallup poll from last August states that support of labor unions (71%) is at its highest point since 1965.Unionizing can be seen as an inconvenience – disruptive to commerce and to many Americans’ daily lives. Labor unions are as American as apple pie. The National Labor Relations Board has reported an uptick in unfair labor practice charge filings and union representation petitions, the latter at a pace unseen since the 1970s. Then there are the actors and writers, making a compelling argument out of whether art imitates life, or vice versa.Right now, they’re all thinking about a strike.Even as the number of unions has dropped over decades, recent labor activity with high-profile entities such as Amazon and Starbucks has shined a light on workers’ discontent. There are various airport personnel, making sure everyone gets from here to there. There’s the delivery person, in a shade of brown, leaving packages on the front porch. All the world’s a stage, Shakespeare wrote, and all the men and women merely players. ![]()
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