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Yesterday we had our first Downtown Lunch Club meeting at Pizza Colore Express.

DDLC is a bunch of guys that go to Pinecrest but work in downtown. It came about almost by accident. I was eating lunch with Danny one day and I mentioned that Steve and Chip worked nearby. Danny said - ‘we should have invited them.’ I said what about next month. Danny asked if there were any other people working downtown. I then said and what if we had a topic to talk about - like a leadership principle or something and viola - it was born.

So Steve, Danny, Jay, Chip and I sat around great pizza and calzone to answer this question: What’s a leadership principle you’ve learned in the workplace that had a direct spiritual application. The goal was to get a working list of topics to discuss over the next few months.

Instead we found ourselves camped around one idea - how destructive and unhealthy a SEGMENTED worldview was to life. So many of us catch ourselves functioning in silos - one for work, one for family, one for church, one for friends, one for hobbies. How much healthier it was to have an integrated worldview that didn’t see the lines as clear. We talked about the dangers of that as well and how really ancient most of the ‘new’ business principles really are anyway.

It was a great lunch. I learned a lot as well as had an awesome lunch.