Work in Progress with Christopher Wong Michaelson
Work in Progress with Christopher Wong Michaelson discusses every working person's work in progress, namely, our quest to be fully human in a working world that all too often makes us feel like machines, in which we often don't even have time to think and that, in the words of Studs Terkel, too often feels like "a Monday through Friday sort of dying."
Work in Progress with Christopher Wong Michaelson
A conversation about business, family and the business of family.
In this episode, Michaelson moderates a panel discussion titled: Family business: How to create meaningful work for the family, employees and betterment of the community, as part of the University of St. Thomas Schulze School of Entrepreneurship Family Business Center breakfast series.
Panelists include three family business leaders who approach meaningful work in a variety of ways, but always with a goal of making the world around them better: Vikas Narula, founder of Keyhubs and Neighborhood Forest; Kris Kowalski Christiansen, CEO of Kowalski’s Markets; and, Traci Tapani, Co-President of Wyoming Machine.
Michaelson and panelists explore several topics: How we’ve arrived at the new “purpose economy” or the “passion economy" in an era in which we expect our work to make the world and our lives better and, how family businesses can balance the worthy purpose of supporting family goals and individual passions with business needs and social impact.
- Sponsored by The Melrose & The Toro Company Center for Principled Leadership at the University of St. Thomas.
- Produced by Nicole Zwieg Daly, JD, EdD, CPPM.
- Engineered by Tom Forliti.