Wise management will build organizations with people who are seeking clarity on and alignment with their life purposes. To do this, management will consider the background of each worker, recognizing that early childhood years are very important in shaping a worker’s ability to find and fulfill his or her life purpose. As a maxim, healthy workers come from healthy home environments. A healthy worker can easily be guided in the process of discovering his or her life purpose. For those workers whose home environments were unhealthy, however, management should look for those who are humble, submitted, and teachable. These are marks of a person who can overcome poor childhood training and be discipled into his or her life purpose. Those who cannot be discipled will need to be released; otherwise, they will become impediments to the success of the organization.

Gleanings - September 2013

Organizational leaders should invest in helping people find God’s purpose for their lives and then seek to utilize people congruent with God’s purpose. Helping people align with the will of God for their lives is one of the best uses of tangible physical assets. Furthermore, tangible physical assets should be used by management to invest in the growth and maturity of everyone in the organization. As individuals align with the ways of God (true wealth), the organization will deliver increasingly outstanding products and services.

Gleanings - August 2013

To develop world-class value, organizations must hire the right people. The seminal biblical principle for hiring is C4. By faithfully following this principle, management teams can properly build their organizations in alignment with the will and ways of God. This will serve as a safe harbor and lay the foundation for divine favor and blessings.

Gleanings - July 2013

The four basic business skills are recognizing and embracing the metanarrative, using C4 to find each individual’s role, strategically aligning the organization to fulfill its role in the metanarrative, and tactically aligning each individual to fulfill his or her role in the organization. Practicing these basic skills will help bring organizations and individuals into alignment with the will and ways of God. The fruit of this alignment will be provision (profit) because God always funds his will done his ways.

Gleanings - June 2013

To operate a profitable organization, the organization must first be based on biblical principles. The organization’s management team and its workers must be wise, faithful, diligent students of Scripture. They must receive teaching by godly people in order to mature and grow in their understanding of Scripture. This will enable the organization to align with the will and ways of God and therefore prosper. The tangible evidence of true prosperity is an organization that grows at a healthy pace, enjoys favor in the delivery of its value proposition, develops a stable life-giving culture, builds an outstanding reputation, and reaps financial profit.

Gleanings - May 2013