Find your mission in life, that is, the work that God created you to do. If you are an organizational leader, seek to discover the divinely ordained mission of your organization. Then build your organization with people who view their lives as divinely ordained missions. For such people, jobs and money are tools to facilitate the will and ways of God. True wealth is righteousness, and true success is obediently completing your mission in life both personally and organizationally. A key to building great organizations that deliver great value propositions is building with people who work out of a sense of mission.

Gleanings - January 2012

Capitalism as an economic and business philosophy is not doomed to fail. When capitalism fails, it is due to the way people practice it. The best way to remedy the current flawed practice of capitalism will not be found in naturalistic thinking but in biblical thinking. The only sound way to build an organization is based on a biblical worldview. To develop a biblically sound paradigm of capitalism requires godly people—workers and management—who are committed to living according to God’s will and God’s ways. Capitalism, when so practiced, will be an efficacious economic and business philosophy.

Gleanings - December 2011

If you desire true wisdom to run your organization, you need counsel and advice not based on traditional best practices but based on best practices gleaned from a biblical worldview. Hire consultants whose wisdom is expressed through best practices based on a biblical worldview. These consultants will be humble, committed to Christ, recognize the Bible as the handbook for business, and define success in terms of obedience to the will and ways of God. Build an equally yoked management team that embraces the aforementioned traits. Develop workers who are devoted to understanding and conducting business from a biblical worldview. This is how you will build an excellent organization delivering world-class value propositions to your customers and clients.

Gleanings - November 2011

Be diligent to learn and live a biblical worldview of work. Provide training for everyone in your organization based on a biblical worldview. Hire and retain people who either already practice biblical principles of work or can be trained to practice these principles. Through faithful diligent biblical training of workers, you will build an excellent organization—one that glorifies God by delivering an excellent value proposition. Excellent value propositions are delivered by workers who practice a biblical worldview of work.

Gleanings - October 2011

To build an excellent organization, you must build with those who are called to be part of your organization. People who are called to the workplace and are mature in Christ will find their assigned work and view their work as a way to serve and worship God. They recognize that they are ministers assigned by God to the workplace. Such people will deliver excellent value propositions and serve customers exceedingly well. As a result, they will glorify God in all they do because they understand that their work is a primary part of their ministry.

Gleanings - September 2011