Strategies@work Podcast

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

A key to preparation for individual success is the conviction of being sent. To build excellent organizations, management must build with people who have a profound sense of the call of God on their lives and are called to be part of the organization. Such people will have C4 to work in their respective roles. They will work with a pure motive of obedience to God and will therefore display a sense of mission and passion in delivering world-class value to those the organization serves. A culture built with people who understand they are sent will bring life and prosperity to all and glory to God. This is true success both individually and organizationally.

Gleanings - December 2014

To build anything that is enduringly excellent and successful, one must build according to the will and ways of God. One of the keys to accomplish this is to be trained in Scripture, which is the most clear and complete revelation about the will and ways of God. Therefore wise management will seek to develop a learning organization that will ground every stakeholder in Scripture. Regardless of the work assignment, each person in the organization needs a biblical worldview to guide and direct his or her thoughts and actions, which enables the workers and the organization to deliver great value. Therefore one of the keys to preparing for success, individually and organizationally, is mastery of Scripture after the pattern provided by Jesus.

Gleanings - November 2014

Organizational success must be defined as obedience to the will and ways of God. Furthermore, organizational success is the by-product of the individual successes of the stakeholders of the organization. Preparation for individual success is based on being grounded in Scripture so that a person can find and fulfill the purpose of God for his or her life. Management must develop an organizational culture that facilitates growth in sound theology as a predicate for releasing individual potential thus enabling the organization to produce an outstanding value proposition.

Gleanings - October 2014

Work is a Divine Assignment

Gleanings - September 2014

To build an excellent organization, management teams must discern the will of God for the organization in the context of the meta-narrative and be committed to strategically aligning everything in the organization to fulfill the will of God according to the ways of God. Management must build relationally with C4 workers and service providers who are organized into effective teams who can then efficaciously deliver the organization’s value proposition. And management must be devoted to providing a learning environment in which workers can grow and develop their respective expertise based on the wisdom of Christ.

Gleanings - August 2014

To build excellent organizations, management must build with level three workers—those committed to working according to the will and ways of God. Level one workers are not trustworthy and therefore take considerable supervision to enable them to produce acceptable work. Level two workers are better than level one workers, but they lack clarity of the Holy Spirit’s calling. Only level three workers are driven by the call of God on their lives and therefore work as unto the Lord. This empowers them to produce outstanding work, which enables organizations to deliver world class product and services. Wise management teams will build a culture seeking to train every employee to become a level three worker.

Gleanings - July 2014

To build an excellent world-class organization, management must learn and practice a biblical worldview—the only true worldview. The senior leaders must be equally yoked in their understanding of how to practice a biblical worldview organizationally. Furthermore, the senior leaders must learn to develop strategic plans in alignment with the will and ways of God. Then the strategic plan must be executed with excellence—congruent with a biblical worldview. Finally, the customers or clients served by the organization will help validate how well the organization is aligned with the will and ways of God.

Gleanings - June 2014

No organization will enjoy lasting success unless it is built according to the will and ways of God. One of the key ways to align with the will and ways of God is to understand delegated authority. To build an organization, for profit or not-for-profit, requires sound thinking about authority. All licit authority comes from God and must be subject to his will and ways. To achieve enduring success, employers and managers must always function knowing they will ultimately give an account to God for their actions. Obedience to the will and ways of God in the context of delegated authority is the only way to true success. And the only way to live obediently is to be empowered by Christ. Therefore to build enduring excellent organizations requires submission to divinely ordained authority throughout the organization and empowerment by Christ to live accordingly.

Gleanings - May 2014