literature
Best corporate culture and workplace literature to better your workplace experience. Journal's favorite stories.
Executive Leadership and Culture Shaping Explained
Executive leadership and culture shaping refer to the process by which senior leaders define, model, and reinforce the values that guide an organization. Culture is not simply a set of written principles; it is the lived experience of employees shaped by daily actions, decisions, and leadership behavior. Because executives hold the highest level of influence, their actions set the tone for the entire organization.
By Yeasha Sobhan3 days ago in Journal
The Architecture of Silence: An Engineer’s Blueprint for Peace in the Heart of Paris
In a world suffering from chronic noise, silence is often perceived as an emptiness—a lack of something. But for me, as an engineer who spent years studying the atomic structure of minerals, silence is something entirely different: it is the densest form of existence. It is not the absence of sound; it is a perfectly balanced vacuum. It is that specific, protected space where external chaotic pressure equalizes with internal strength, allowing the crystals of our soul to grow without fractures or flaws in their lattice.
By Magma Star5 days ago in Journal
What If Jesus Was an Interdimensional Traveler? Netflix’s The OA Made Me Wonder
I am watching this strange, beautiful series on Netflix called The OA. Maybe you’ve seen it, maybe you haven’t—but here’s the gist: a young woman disappears for seven years, returns with her sight restored, and tells a story about near-death experiences, secret experiments, and movements that open doors to other dimensions. As I watch, a thought springs to mind: what if Jesus—the Jesus we know from scripture—was also an interdimensional traveler?
By Vongani Bandi14 days ago in Journal
Author’s Advice. Top Story - March 2026.
If you would’ve asked me 20 years ago did I know I’d become a writer and an author, I would’ve said “nope, ain’t happening”. As fate would have it I did become an author and I can honestly say I’m loving it so far. It really does feel good to be a writer. I’ve learned a lot on this journey and I feel like with even me being as new to this world as I am, there’s some wisdom I need to share with every other aspiring author.
By Joe Patterson16 days ago in Journal
How Many Words?
Nine months ago I published my first Vocal story “Coincidentally ... Ken Nordine” which I had lifted from my blog Seven Days In. It has had 40 reads logged against it, that is an average of one read per week. My least read piece has four reads partially because I never shared it on Social Media because it was such a downer piece but I need to get it out of my system and it sits there now as a warning of how not to be.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 21 days ago in Journal
The Empty Locker
I didn’t know his name at first. I only knew the silence. It was a Tuesday in October. The high school hallway buzzed with its usual chaos—backpacks slamming, laughter echoing, sneakers squeaking on linoleum. But one locker stayed shut. No one leaned against it. No one dropped off homework. Just a quiet space where a boy should have been.
By KAMRAN AHMAD26 days ago in Journal
The Suitcase in the Hallway
I didn’t pack lightly. The suitcase sat by the door for three days—half-full, then overflowing, then emptied again. I kept adding things I thought I’d need: my favorite coffee mug, the photo from last summer, the sweater that still smelled like home. Then I’d take them out, convinced they were too heavy, too sentimental, too much.
By KAMRAN AHMAD26 days ago in Journal
The Couple We All Watched Grow Up
I didn’t know them. But I felt like I did. For over a decade, they were part of my life—not as celebrities, but as characters in a story I watched unfold in real time. I saw them at seventeen, awkward and bright-eyed on red carpets, fumbling through interviews, hiding smiles behind their hands. I saw them navigate fame, heartbreak, and the slow, steady work of becoming adults—all while the world watched, judged, and claimed ownership of their journey.
By KAMRAN AHMAD26 days ago in Journal
Making Black History
So it’s February of 2004 and I’m in my 5th grade class at Glenwood Elementary School in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. My teacher Sheryl Spivey has given us a class project for Black History Month. The task requires us to pick a historical Black figure and reenact their life story in a class play. The person who’s life I was tasked with covering is author Langston Hughes. I was partnered up with classmate who had just moved here from Africa named Abdoulaye Diallo. I was thinking this was gonna be very difficult because doesn't hardly speak any English.
By Joe Patterson28 days ago in Journal
