Strategies@Work Podcast

Building multigenerational organizations is daunting in a fallen world given over to sin. Organizational leaders and managers must vigilantly model and build a culture that seeks to align with God’s will, ways, timing, and glory. There is no other way to build that will enjoy God’s favor and blessing. This makes organizational leadership and management a profoundly spiritual function that can only...

Gleanings - July 2023

Wise organizational leaders and managers understand the primacy of living according to the multigenerational metanarrative aligned with the purpose of God both individually and organizationally. Accordingly, they seek to discern God’s purpose for their organizations and to build with people who seek to serve God’s purpose individually. When divinely ordained individual and organization purposes ar...

Gleanings - June 2023

Wise leaders and managers recognize the profundity of Jesus’ model of servant leadership. He is the gold standard. Though one might find examples of other men who displayed servant leadership, such as Hal Moore, no mere mortal has ever lived (or ever will live) fully congruent with Jesus’ model. Sound organizational leadership is based on humbly and sacrificially serving God’s purpose in others. T...

Gleanings - May 2023

Wise leaders and managers understand that the only correct way to build organizations is God’s way—his will done his way in his timing for his glory. In God’s universe this is the only right way. Accordingly, they will build diligently using biblical principles, such as the C4 Principle, to help identify the right people—those God has sovereignly ordained to be part of an organization. This practi...

Gleanings - April 2023

Wise organizational leaders and managers understand that Jesus is Lord and resist the temptation to presume that anything exists outside of his sovereign control. Accordingly, they understand that every person and organization is accountable to Christ. Organizationally, this means that to the best of their ability every aspect of the organization should be aligned with the will of God. This includ...

Gleanings - January 2023

Wise organizational leaders and managers seek to connect their thinking and actions to God’s metanarrative, knowing that all will give an account to the Creator for their choices. Therefore, individuals and organizations must seek to serve God’s purpose in the metanarrative with the understanding that the only correct way to live, individually and organizationally, is to seek to obey God’s will ac...

Gleanings - February 2023

Organizational leaders and managers must be committed and submitted to a Christian worldview as revealed through Scripture. Accordingly, they will value biblical principles such as the C4 Principle as a tool to facilitate alignment with God both individually and organizationally. When used congruently throughout an organization, the C4 Principle will enable the organization to deliver an efficient...

Gleanings - January 2023

Wise organizational leaders and managers understand the lordship of Christ and seek always to align with his will. They use the C4 Principle to help discern who is called to be part of their organizations and what role each person is to play. Consequently, the overriding consideration on every personnel decision is, what is the will of God? To presume to utilize any person outside the will of God...

Gleanings - December 2022

Wise organizational leaders and managers understand the sovereign, intentional, and strategic nature of God. And they know that Jesus is Lord and Christ. This means that both organizations and individuals find dignity, value, and purpose in relationship to and alignment with Christ. Consequently, the only true metric of success is alignment with Christ—his will done his ways in his timing for his...

Gleanings - November 2022

Wise organizational leaders and managers understand God’s sovereign, intentional, and strategic nature. Accordingly, they recognize that the best choice for every position in an organization is always a person who has C4 to perform the work assignment. The C4 principle should guide all hiring, reviewing, promoting, and releasing decisions. Leaders and managers apply this biblical tool to facilitat...

Gleanings - October 2022

Wise organizational leaders understand the divine definition of good works. They seek to discern God's will. They study Scripture to learn God's ways. They prayerfully seek God's timing. And they hold each other accountable to the singular motive of God's glory. These leaders build cultures within organizations that embrace this biblical definition of good works. Consequently, the fruit of organiz...

Gleanings - September 2022

Wise organizational leaders will be regulated by the principles of the Bible. They will build organizations with stakeholders who are also so governed. Seeking to deliver value without a sound foundation in Scripture is folly and will not produce enduring success. True value can only be produced through faithful obedience to the principles that emanate from the Creator. This will produce true valu...

Gleanings - August 2022

Organizational leaders must be clear about what God is building and seek to build with him. People and organizations are created to fulfill a role in the metanarrative. The challenge is to see our roles and serve the purpose of God by fulfilling our roles according to the will and ways of God. This is the only way to true success in life individually and organizationally. When organizations functi...