Christian Business Insights
As an educated and experienced practitioner in the profession of helping people change their behavior, I’ve come to the conclusion that our set of preexisting beliefs supplies the largest and most potent set of obstacles to self-improvement and the greater success and fulfillment that comes with it. Human beings naturally make observations and conclusions about our experiences as we grow up and experience life. Eventually, some of these become hardened into beliefs. These beliefs than form our base set of assumptions...
info_outlineChristian Business Insights
Too many Christian business people look outside their careers and their businesses for a place or a work that allows them to be significant. This search for something outside of themselves keeps them focused in the wrong place. The real source of significance is much closer to home.
info_outlineChristian Business Insights
Building a successful business requires serious focus on four fundamental components. Those include the three elements of infrastructure: Systems, people and money, and the glue that ties those three together and empowers them to reach their potential: corporate culture. Creating a positive corporate culture is a process, not an event. Here are three essential keys. Check out the XI (Excellence & Influence) On-line Community
info_outlineChristian Business Insights
Throughout the Bible, the people of God who were business people were invariably excellent at their business. Yet, much of our contemporary Christian culture expects mediocrity from Christian organizations. Should a Christian business strive for excellence, and, if so, what does that look like? (Excellence & Influence) -- An online community promoting excellence & Influence with content and connections.
info_outlineChristian Business Insights
Most Christian business people are woefully ignorant of the impact their businesses can have for the Kingdom. God designed business to be a powerful force in the Kingdom. A Christian business is a powerful ministry. Let's dig into the details of this idea.
info_outlineChristian Business Insights
There is a pattern for the practices and principles consistently evidenced by Biblical business leaders. Leadership in the Bible often included creating an intense business culture. The right culture binds people together, stimulates them to be the best they can be, and prods the organization to excellence.
info_outlineChristian Business Insights
Christian-owned businesses have a huge potential to impact their communities. But, ‘business as usual’ will not help you realize that potential. In order to nudge your business in the direction of becoming a Kingdom business, you’ll need to build these three practices into your business routines. Holy Spirit resources:
info_outlineChristian Business Insights
If you want to improve the productivity of your organization, and particularly your sales team, focus first on the structure. When you change the structure, you change the behavior of the people who operate within that structure. Let me explain
info_outlineChristian Business Insights
In order for an individual or a society to reach its potential, it must continuously grow and develop. That requires consistent, methodical exposure to new ideas. Unfortunately, many people have arrested their development by remaining within their status quos.
info_outlineChristian Business Insights
It’s more and more popular to blame other people, or some ‘ism’ for your own circumstances. As long as we claim to be a victim we’ll never achieve our potential. As soon as we accept personal responsibility for our own circumstances, we gain the freedom to change them.
info_outlineEvery sensitive business executive faces the conflict between the betterment of the organization, and the responsibility for the care of the people. Success lies in successful navigating the intersection of those two competing responsibilities.
The Xi Community Learn more here