The San Francisco Chronicle's website, www.sfgate.com, today in the "Finding My Religion" column has a fascinating interview with Shawn Riegsecker, a tech company CEO who was raised as a Mennonite: "In the high-flying world of Internet entrepreneurs, Shawn Riegsecker is an unlikely success story. Born into a strict Mennonite family in a small Ohio farming town, Riegsecker was taught to view technology cautiously."
One highlight:
Q: You've incorporated those same values into your company manifesto, which you give to all new employees and business partners. What was the idea behind that?
A: I think one of the biggest mistakes we ever made as a country was that we took religion out of the schools and didn't replace it with any values and principles. I think the same thing has happened in corporate America. You can't bring up religion inside of a corporate setting, and in staying so far away from it we fail to inject any sense of principle -- right types of living -- into our work.
I've taken the principles that my upbringing and religion taught me and put them into a structured document.
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Very nice. I keep wondering when one of us is going to volunteer to be interviewed for this column about being a Quaker in the modern world.
I especially agree with Riegsecker about the lack of religion in schools. I think it is a shame that we are unable to address the spiritual nature of human beings in public schools because of so much Christian malpractice over the years.
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