Profit and Principle

There is a specific kind of loneliness that only leaders know — the moment when you’re the only person in the room who thinks the deal is wrong, and everyone is waiting for you to get on board.   Episode Summary  Groupthink has driven some of the most catastrophic business failures in history — Enron, Lehman Brothers, Boeing’s 737 MAX. In every case, intelligent people looked at something that was...

The pressure to just decide is where most leaders get into trouble — they confuse urgency with clarity, and mistake decisiveness for wisdom.   Episode Summary  Every experienced leader has made a bad call under pressure. Not because they weren’t smart enough — but because the pressure itself distorts thinking. You’re operating with incomplete information, a real or perceived deadline, competing co...

he most effective leader you’ve ever worked for probably didn’t lead the way you expected — and there’s a two-thousand-year-old reason why.   Episode Summary  Roughly 70% of the variance in team engagement comes down to one variable: the manager. Not strategy, not compensation, not the product — the manager. And the managers who consistently unlock that engagement share a common trait that most le...

What would change about how you run your business if every private decision you made this week was played back to your employees on Friday?   Episode Summary   Most integrity failures aren’t a moment — they’re a direction. A financial officer who shaved numbers on internal reports. A sales manager who trained his team to be vague with clients. An owner whose best people finally left because they c...

Your faith might walk into church on Sunday — but does it walk into your office on Monday? Most Christian business leaders believe their faith matters at work. But when pressed to name a specific decision shaped by a specific passage of Scripture, a lot of them go quiet. Not because they don't believe — because nobody's shown them how to make that connection. This launch episode introduc...

Does your faith walk into the office with you on Monday morning — or does it wait in the car? If you're an entrepreneur, business owner, or leader who's serious about your faith and your work, this podcast is for you. Profit and Principle is a new show that takes the Bible seriously and takes business seriously — and refuses to separate the two. Every episode tackles a real challenge bus...