In my opinion, one of the biggest complements a small business can receive, is that their culture feels like belonging to a family. Naturally, some families can be dysfunctional, but when times get tough, a family sticks together and helps each other.
In 1 Timothy 5:1, The Apostle Paul challenged the leaders of the church with the following directive, “Do not sharply rebuke an older man, but rather appeal to him as a father, and to the younger men as brothers, to the older women as mothers, and to the younger women as sisters, in all purity.”
Although this was written for leaders of the church, I believe it can be just as appropriately applied to the marketplace. If you want a healthy culture, treat each employee as family.
