For too much of my career, I was worried about where I ranked in the organization. How was my career advancing in comparison with others? Who was moving ahead faster? Who had the boss’s favor? It’s a human tendency, but it takes our eyes off the one on whom we should be focused. Peter falls prey to that tendency in the final verses of the Book of John. Jesus has told Peter to follow him, ...
In his book, “Smarter, Faster, Better,” author Charles Duhigg describes an automotive factory launched as a joint venture of two Japanese and American auto manufacturers. The new factory incorporated new operating processes, training long-time auto workers to take responsibility for stopping the production line when they saw a defect on a vehicle. In one anecdote, the president of the joint ...
Like any leader, there are times when disputes have broken out amongst my team, forcing me to referee conflict. It’s during those times that I try to encourage each team member to show respect to their peers. But as I was recently reading a passage in Romans, I realized the bar may need to be higher than just respecting each ...
When I was in public accounting, Wyatt was the least respected partner in the firm due to his inferior accounting skills. But he effectively recruited new clients, so Wyatt kept getting promoted. Sometimes there was jealousy from the other partners and staff. Their accounting help on Wyatt’s clients often went unrecognized. 1 Corinthians 12:24 teaches, “But God has put the ...
When I was a young banker, I worked in a very controlled environment with strict lending limits. My individual loan authority was only $15,000. When I switched banks one of my first questions was the size of my loan authority. When my new boss said I could make loans up to $250,000, I was stunned. Over time I learned to ...
According to Businessinsider.com, Amazon hired over 350,000 people from July to October of 2020. In fact, though, most of those workers left after just “days or weeks.” Amazon is now concerned that their growth and turnover could reach a point where they struggle to find people who haven’t already worked with them before. My suspicion is most of these people ...
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