We called her Miss Anna. She was my first grade teacher in a tiny, four-room Kentucky school. Miss Anna taught us to stand at attention, to speak with reverence, and placing our hands over our hearts to pledge our allegiance to “one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

Life seemed much simpler back then. I guess it was. I didn't know anybody who didn't believe in God. Unlike Michael Newdow out in California who last year tried to get the “God-word" out of the pledge, parents back then seemed pleased that President Eisenhower had put it in.

“One nation under God, with liberty and justice for all." Maybe after all these years, it's time to ask what these words really mean and what implications they might have for our corporate life together.

I. WHY BE A NATION…