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Paul Winkler
Dec 20, 20243 min read
Getting to the Heart of Leadership
(Photo: Adobe Stock) Let’s talk about your heart. The prophet Jeremiah nailed it when he wrote, “More tortuous than anything is the human...
Paul Winkler
Nov 15, 20243 min read
St. Homobonus, patron of business leaders, pray for us!
An icon of St. Homobonus commissioned by Paul Winkler in 2020. (Photo provided) November 13th was the feast day of St. Homobonus, the...
Paul Winkler
Oct 17, 20243 min read
Business Leadership is Your Path to Holiness
(Photo: Adobe Stock) The Catechism of the Catholic Church defines charity as “the theological virtue by which we love God above all...
Paul Winkler
Sep 20, 20244 min read
Reset your daily routine: Secrets to success and holiness
Photo: Adobe Stock What was the first thing you thought of when you woke up today? Chances are it wasn’t God, but you were instead...
Paul Winkler
Aug 23, 20244 min read
Work: fundamental, decisive for making life more human
(Photo: Adobe Stock) Pope St. John Paul II wrote in Laborem Exercens , “It is certainly true that work, as a human issue, is at the very...
Paul Winkler
Jun 21, 20244 min read
Born to be wild
Kykkos monastery, Cyprus. The Ladder of Divine Ascent with the good on the right and the bad on the left. (Photo: Adobe Stock) The 1960s...
Paul Winkler
May 24, 20243 min read
Happiness and Its Effect on Your Business
(Photo: Adobe Stock) As the leader of your business, you create the blueprint of its culture by the behavior you exhibit in front of your...
Paul Winkler
Apr 19, 20243 min read
Making God a Partner in Your Business
(Photo: Adobe Stock) As a Catholic business leader, you have likely heard in every homily at every Mass you have attended that you should...
Paul Winkler
Mar 22, 20244 min read
Why company culture eats strategic plans for breakfast
(Photo: Adobe Stock) Many a strategic plan ends up gathering dust on shelves or on the corner of a desk rather than being effectively...
Paul Winkler
Feb 23, 20244 min read
A Daily Examen for Catholic Business Leaders
(Photo: Adobe Stock) In Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises , there’s a dialog between two characters which goes like this: “’How did...
Paul Winkler
Jan 19, 20244 min read
A Catholic Business Leader’s Basic Field Guide
(Photo: Adobe Stock) St. Augustine said, when he was bishop of Hippo, “Change the heart and the work will be changed.” I have found out...
Paul Winkler
Dec 15, 20234 min read
The Workplace as a School of Virtuous Leadership
(Photo: Adobe Stock) We are living in an apostolic age where increasingly more people are rejecting the tenets of Catholicism and the...
Paul Winkler
Nov 17, 20234 min read
The Divided Life – A Fable
(Photo: Adobe Stock) The term “the divided life” isn’t one you hear used ever in the secular world. For most people, we have just one...
Paul Winkler
Oct 27, 20234 min read
Building the bridge between faith and business
(Photo: Adobe Stock) “ The Vocation of the Business Leader – A Reflection ” is a document that should be of great significance, primarily...
Paul Winkler
Sep 22, 20234 min read
Business is Key to Attaining Justice and Peace in the World
(Photo: Adobe Stock) The Pontifical Council of Justice and Peace commissioned a document called “The Vocation of the Business Leader – A...
Paul Winkler
Aug 18, 20233 min read
How to make work a continual prayer in the age of distraction
(Photo: Adobe Stock) In today’s fast-paced and media driven world, where information bombards us from various sources such as TV,...
Paul Winkler
Jul 21, 20234 min read
Cognitive Dissonance and the Catholic Business Leader
Cognitive dissonance is the psychological term for the mental stress or discomfort we feel when we are confronted with new information...
Paul Winkler
Jun 16, 20234 min read
Business — What’s love got to do with it?
(Photo: Cytonn Photography / Unsplash) “The problem with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.” This joke has been...
Paul Winkler
May 19, 20234 min read
In the beginning: The divided life
(Photo: Hunters Race / Unsplash) There was a great divorce centuries ago between our faith life and our work life. They cited...
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