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The foundational question that God wants you to consider is this: why do you do it? Why are you busting your butt to build your business? You don’t have to be a Business Leader; you could just be a contented employee putting in your hours and going home to relax. You don’t have to shoulder…

If you are a Christian Business Leader you should know the name Samuel Truett Cathy. His life has inspired mine and others for years. I think of him as a lighthouse for the Christian Business Leader. Mr. Cathy founded Chick-fil-A in 1967 and built his business based on biblical principles. With no college education, Mr.…

Mike Breen and Steve Cockram wrote Building a Discipling Culture.   The chapter on “Fruitful Living” is worth the price of the whole book. The authors note that we all have stress in our lives.  All stress is not bad stress.  According to science, stress is simply a force applied to an object to change its…

As your company grows, you will find yourself exiting position after position turning them over to your successors.  One by one you will shed various positions and promote or hire your replacement. And though it may be hard to believe right now, one day you will leave the company altogether.   I am in that process…

In John 6:15-21, NKJV “Now when evening came, His disciples went down to the sea, got into the boat, and went over the sea toward Capernaum. And it was already dark, and Jesus had not come to them. Then the sea arose because a great wind was blowing. So when they had rowed about three…

Tom Watson Jr., CEO of IBM between 1956 and 1971, was a key figure in the information revolution. Watson repeatedly demonstrated his abilities as a leader. A young executive had made some bad decisions that cost the company several million dollars. He was summoned to Watson’s office, fully expecting to be dismissed. As he entered…

In Andy Stanley’s When Work and Family Collide, Stanley challenges the idea that families have to be sacrificed on the altar of work. Stanley acknowledges that there is not enough time to get everything done that we are convinced needs to be done at work. As a result, we often resort to the chaos of…

A six-year study that tracked British civil-servants had startling results: workers who put in an average of at least 11 hours per day at the office were two and a half times more likely to develop depression than their colleagues who clocked-out after working 7 to 8 hours. In another study, researchers analyzed workplace factors…