What Really is Our Number One Fear?
Jerry Seinfeld once told a very funny and now well-known joke about public speaking: “According to most studies, people’s number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average...
Do Christians Really Have a Workplace Advantage?
Of course that’s a bold assertion coming from a Christian. You might even say it’s a little presumptuous.
The truth is I have been responsible for hiring nearly one hundred employees over my career and have interviewed over a thousand. And as a...
This is an interesting question, I hope you’ll agree. It can sometimes be controversial. Since most of my subscribers are in leadership positions or on their way, the answer is a bit more complex. It’s one thing to say Merry Christmas as an individual contributor in your workplace. What...
This correlation is one of the more interesting: Wonder Woman, Lie Detectors and Personality Assessments? The connection is not as strange as you might think…okay, it’s sorta strange.
They are all contributions of one man, William Moulton Marston. Born in 1893, Marston was an American inventor, psychologist and, oddly enough,...
Christian Motivation at Work
This blog contains the ’10 Principles of Christian Motivation’. Before we get to them, it’s important to first establish the foundation…LOVE! One letter separates the W-O-R-D from the W-O-R-L-D…the letter “L”. The difference between Christian and worldly motivation is found in this single letter, which...
God’s Special Purpose for Us
In our Christian lives, perhaps from the time we came to know the Lord, when first clothed with Christ, we believed God had a special purpose for us. In some cases that meant working in the full-time ministry as a pastor, evangelist, counselor, youth...
As discussed in Part 1 of 2, we looked at the Greek word teleios to better understand how we, as Christians in the workforce, can be perfect through maturity. We can be complete, with nothing else needed, by walking as Jesus walked. In fact, we are called to do...
Maturity. Now there’s a virtue you don’t hear much about in business leadership blogs. Perfection, for that matter, is equally obscure as a leadership trait in corporate America. This statement “With maturity comes perfection” is probably hard to grasp, especially as Christians. We know Jesus was perfect and we...
If you read the previous two posts, you have been introduced (perhaps re-introduced) to the idea that Matt 7:7 and Luke 11:9, where Jesus says ‘ask, seek and knock’, are not merely a treatise on prayer. Many other New Testament passages support the idea that God calls us to...
In the previous excerpt on this topic, I proposed a new way to look at Matthew 7:7 and Luke 11:9, when addressing our career desires. ‘Ask, seek and knock’ is actually a three part process that goes beyond prayer alone. Prayer is not diminished. The power of prayer remains...