Strategies@Work Podcast

Gleanings - January 2016

Management must recognize the context for work. Work is performed in a fallen world that will disrupt the organization’s ability to efficiently deliver its value proposition. As a maxim, the minority of the people will produce the majority of the work. Therefore to overcome this maxim, it is essential for management to find the right workers, that is, people who possess a biblical view of work as...

Gleanings - December 2015

Leading an organization is first and foremost an exercise in stewardship. The real owner of the organization (and all assets of the organization) is the Master; human stakeholders are simply stewards. Stewards are required to faithfully steward the organization according to the will and ways of the Master. “It’s not personal, it’s just business” or “What’s in it for me?” are inappropriate attitude...

Gleanings - November 2015

Management must learn to function as healthy authority figures for organizations seeking to release the God-ordained potential of each worker. There must be a culture of submission to authority throughout the organization. Workers should be screened to see if they understand the importance of submission and are willing to truly submit to authority. Proper submission to parents is an indicator that...

Gleanings - October 2015

Part of the responsibility of organizational management is to find leverage points to present Christ in a positive light to all stakeholders (workers, customers, suppliers, contractors, and regulators). Since Christianity is a rational worldview in the sense that reason can be employed to present and defend it, management should seek to rationally present the truth about Christ using common ground...

Gleanings - September 2015

Given the Christian view that all humans are born morally evil and have only limited ability for moral goodness based on common grace, management must seek to develop workers who have been and are being redeemed from their moral depravity by Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit. These workers are difficult to find. Therefore it is incumbent upon management to develop an organizational cultu...

Gleanings - August 2015

Management must recognize the Scriptural validity of individual workplace callings as ministry. Furthermore, workplace callings are not humanly defined; they are defined by God. Therefore, building organizations aligned with God requires management to find the right people—people God has called and assigned to the organization. One of the keys to finding the right people is finding those who have...

Gleanings - July 2015

To build enduringly excellent organizations, management must build with people who are called of God to be part of the organizations. Wise management will search for people who are both called and commissioned by authority figures to the work of their organizations. Workers seeking to find and fulfill their life purpose will, among other things, display the traits of preparation, humility, and sub...

Gleanings - June 2015

To build excellent organizations requires obedience to the best practices of economics and business established by the Creator. It isn’t enough to build an organization with workers limited to the empowerment afforded by common grace. Management must seek to find and build with workers who are empowered by God to obey divinely defined best practices, that is, workers who are working congruent with...

Gleanings - May 2015

Work takes place in one of two kingdoms: the kingdom of darkness or the kingdom of light. Management must be clear that excellent value propositions and enduring success can only occur in the context of the kingdom of light. To be excellent, management must focus on aligning everything in the organization with the kingdom of light. The questions that management must faithfully ask about every aspe...

Gleanings - April 2015

To build organizations that deliver excellent value to their customers, management must build with trustworthy workers who are bound together in a spiritually familial relationship (brothers and sisters in Christ). Each worker must be committed to sacrificially serving—helping—one another and to executing his or her work based on obedience to the will and ways of Christ. Workers must have a profou...

Gleanings - March 2015

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 propo...

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 tha...

Gleanings - January 2015