Strategies@work Podcast

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

Reject both deism and humanism. Seek to work with those who embrace a biblical worldview and realize that, in and of themselves, they cannot live in reality. Hard work, overcoming obstacles, and conquering diversity, while admirable and necessary, are not sufficient to truly succeed in life. Wise people realize that to live in reality requires divine intervention, divine empowerment, and divine direction in every area of life. Only people who are doing God’s will according to God’s ways can build enduringly successful organizations. Such people enjoy the freedom of the healed beggar; that is, they live in reality

Gleanings - August 2011

Create an organizational culture that faithfully supports and invests in the families of workers and associates. Be diligent to hire workers with biblically healthy families or those whom you can train to practice a biblical view of family. Recognize that any worker who does not personally practice biblical values and principles in his or her family life will be unable to work at full potential and therefore, in some way, will be a detriment to the organization. Some examples of common practices today that are not aligned with a biblical worldview of family are adultery, abortion, homosexuality, and cohabitation. Also, be very careful with divorced people. As a maxim, divorce is inconsistent with a biblical worldview except for specific situations outlined in Scripture.

Gleanings - July 2011

The key to human advancement is alignment with the will and ways of God. Therefore to build healthy growing organizations, management must build with workers who are each doing what he or she is called to do in accordance with a biblical worldview. And management must set a supportive context that enables the workers to reach their potential, which then facilitates human advancement. To do this, management must make the Bible the handbook of their organizational philosophy, values, principles, and practices. Everything in the organization must be grounded in and aligned with the Bible.

Gleanings - June 2011

If you want your organization to enjoy divine blessings, you must learn and practice God’s timeless universal principles for organizational behavior. Furthermore, the people you hire must also learn and practice these principles. If your organization is committed to delivering an outstanding value proposition, then everyone in the organization must find “great delight” in God’s timeless universal principles. To facilitate this reality in your organization, management must be committed to training and discipleship as tools to facilitate learning and practicing these principles.

Gleanings - May 2011

“Christian hedonism”—sounds like an oxymoron doesn’t it? A Christian is someone who is a follower of Jesus Christ, that is, a disciple of Christ. To be a disciple of Christ, one must put aside personal agendas to embrace and support Christ’s agenda.

Gleanings - April 2011

All people and organizations are faith-based. Faith in Christ is the hallmark of anyone who truly wants to live well and enjoy lasting success in God’s universe. Faith in human reasoning should be submitted to genuine faith in Christ. Since God makes the rules for His universe, organizations that achieve enduring success will be built by people of the Christian faith – people who demonstrate Christianity by their actions. Enduring organizational success is proportional to the degree that the organization’s members grow and mature in their faith in Christ. Therefore, management should make it a priority to lead workers by example to maturity in Christ.

Gleanings - March 2011

Everyone is created by God with a purpose. Organizations fulfill their purpose by finding the right workers and enabling these workers to fulfill their purpose. When the people in an organization fulfill their individual purposes, the organization will fulfill its purpose. This is the principle of congruence. This reality is true of people with handicaps and/or disabilities. If an organization is called to hire someone with such a condition, then God has a purpose. The role of management is to trust the providence of God and seek to help all people in the organization, including the handicapped and disabled, to find and fulfill their purpose. Handicaps and disabilities are not impediments to the purpose of God; rather, these seeming impairments will be used by God to accomplish His will—many times by unexpected means. The key to unlocking this reality is to trust in the providence and intentionality of God.

Gleanings - February 2011

The focus of every organization is results. Without results, an organization will not produce a profit. And without a profit, an organization will eventually die.

Gleanings - January 2011