In this series, we’re identifying lessons from Jesus on passing the baton to future leaders. One of those lessons relates to failure.  When you groom leaders for the future, they are going to make mistakes. Those mistakes may undermine your trust in them.  However, failure is the best lesson plan if one is to learn the lesson.   Peter betrayed Jesus. […]

Today, we’re discussing how leaders might pass the baton to their successors. Jesus only spent three years in ministry, yet today, He has billions of followers.   Identifying Jesus’ approach might be helpful for you and I. After Jesus spent time with His many followers, Jesus took His first big step towards establishing His future leaders.   In Luke 6, we read […]

When I ran track in high school, I learned that relay races are won or lost during the handoff of the baton. In November, Disney terminated their CEO, Bob Chapek, and brought back Bob Iger, their previous CEO.   Although there was a lot of focus on Chapek’s failures, in my opinion the biggest failure was Iger’s mistakes. Iger was the […]

Recently, I received an email from the daughter of a Christian author I met years ago. The email said, “If you knew my father, visit this website.”   Instead of a tribute to his passing, this website was a diatribe by his daughter on what an adulterous and hypocritical man her father had been. There are two sides to every story, […]

When each employee feels like their role in the company matters and that their work helps advance the mission of the organization, tremendous benefits are unleashed.  A 2021 study published in the Journal of Positive Psychology, asked participants to rank their answers to five questions related to how much they believed their work mattered. The researcher’s conclusion was that mattering […]

While Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) efforts have swept corporate America recently, religion is often overlooked. Brian Grim, Religious Freedom and Business Foundation’s CEO, recently said in a washingtoninformer.com article, “As companies find all diversity helpful, even to their bottom lines, the same can be found with making faith a part of corporate DEI.”  Faith oriented groups are becoming more […]

Airbnb recently announced a new pricing strategy. Airbnb customers have been complaining about the company’s lack of transparent pricing, so Airbnb decided to embrace a more transparent model.   If you review some past pricing studies, this is a risky, although more ethical, move. According to the Wall Street Journal, Stubhub discovered that 13% more people bought tickets when the pricing […]

King Josiah discovered the Word of God. It had been lost in the temple for years. After studying it Josiah was grieved at how far his people had strayed. It was time for a new beginning. In 2 Kings 23:3, we read, “The king stood by the pillar and renewed the covenant in the presence of the LORD—to follow the […]

Due to the pandemic, CPA firms had to learn how to perform an entire audit remotely. Many of their clients now question the value in having auditors on site if it can be done remotely.   This puts many CPA firms at risk of their product becoming a commodity. If all the client expects is a finished audit report, they can […]

Have you ever kept your faith secret at work? That’s the question that a recent Deseret News poll asked top business leaders. 54% of these leaders responded “yes,” that they had sometime in the past kept their faith secret.   When they asked these leaders why, the two primary reasons were “possible tension with colleagues” and “social exclusion.” Basically, they were […]