To build excellent organizations requires obedience to the best practices of economics and business established by the Creator. It isn’t enough to build an organization with workers limited to the empowerment afforded by common grace. Management must seek to find and build with workers who are empowered by God to obey divinely defined best practices, that is, workers who are working congruent with their callings and in accordance with a Christian worldview. One of the key practices of wise management is to fervently pray for their workers to be firmly established in the calling of God on their lives and to fulfill that calling using the divinely ordained best practices.

Gleanings - May 2015

Work takes place in one of two kingdoms: the kingdom of darkness or the kingdom of light. Management must be clear that excellent value propositions and enduring success can only occur in the context of the kingdom of light. To be excellent, management must focus on aligning everything in the organization with the kingdom of light. The questions that management must faithfully ask about every aspect of an organization are: “Is what we are thinking and doing congruent with Christ and his kingdom?” and “Is each individual in the community working synergistically in alignment with the will and ways of God?” The only right answer to these questions is yes. Working as a community in alignment with the kingdom of God is the only way to enduring success for every organization.

Gleanings - April 2015

To build organizations that deliver excellent value to their customers, management must build with trustworthy workers who are bound together in a spiritually familial relationship (brothers and sisters in Christ). Each worker must be committed to sacrificially serving—helping—one another and to executing his or her work based on obedience to the will and ways of Christ. Workers must have a profound sense that ultimate accountability is to Christ who is the master of all workers, including managers. Such workers will labor as a mutually edifying community that empowers organizations to deliver excellent value propositions to those the organization is called to serve.

Gleanings - March 2015

The workplace is the purview of God and is therefore rooted in spiritual reality. God has a will for every person and organization. And God has ways that He wants His will executed in the workplace. Therefore management and workers must seek the will and ways of God through the discipline of meaningful prayer. For an organization to find and fulfill its purpose and deliver an excellent value proposition, the organization must be devoted to the discipline of prayer as an integral part of the lives of management and each worker.

Gleanings - February 2015

To build an excellent organization requires sound spiritual reality in the hearts of management and workers. Excellent work can only be performed by people who view work as being rooted in spiritual reality and therefore perform their work assignments with wisdom and knowledge from the Lord and in the fear of the Lord. Management must seek to promote a strong spiritual culture in organizations that builds and supports spiritually sound workers. This is the only way to truly develop and deliver an enduringly excellent organizational value proposition.

Gleanings - January 2015