Biblical Business Principle

Great Capacity - Greater Scalability

BIBLICAL BUSINESS PRINCIPLE:

WHEN YOUR PEOPLE GET BETTER, YOUR ORGANIZATION WILL GET BETTER

JOHN 13:14,15 STATES,

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NOW THAT I, YOUR LORD AND TEACHER, HAVE WASHED YOUR FEET, YOU ALSO SHOULD WASH ONE ANOTHER’S FEET. 15 I HAVE SET YOU AN EXAMPLE THAT YOU SHOULD DO AS I HAVE DONE FOR YOU.

Spend time with a wise team of mentors. Learn faster by learning from others. Ask questions and listen. Seek counsel. Practice Servant Leadership. Be humble and remain teachable. Great leaders are learning leaders. You need a team around you to inspire you and help you build something bigger than you can build alone. No great leader ever led alone.

To endure for a long period of time, a business must possess more significance than a single person or key idea. A multitude of people with a variety of approaches produces success in the marketplace. Those who desire to build a sustainable, scalable business invest in attracting and developing good talent so the business becomes bigger than just the owner. Companies that remain owner-driven and owner-led typically die with the owner.

Companies that last are built by owners who find and gather the right team of people around them. Because this attitude of team building is a biblical principle, it also makes an excellent business principle. Every leader needs to have others question their decisions 1 and others to make decisions on issues the owner questions. Since leaders must make a multitude of choices, many leaders end up making many ineffective decisions when trying to make those decisions in isolation. The fundamental truth is that when leaders make better decisions, their companies get better. If one person is making all the decisions, 2 the organization will be hindered by the limits of that person’s thinking.

A key action of growing and developing a company is finding the best people—and developing their gifts. Growing companies grow people. Smart businesses focus on finding and retaining the best talent. When companies miss this crucial principle, everything suffers. 3 This is an essential biblical principle that needs to be practiced in every business, but especially in every Christian business.

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Great Capacity - Greater Scalability

Jesus taught his followers the power of considering others as a way of life. In one of the most poignant moments in the ministry of Jesus, He got up to serve his disciples by kneeling to wash their feet. He modeled the importance of the value of others. Jesus practiced servant leadership and He encouraged his followers to do likewise.

The wisdom of others can be powerful. In the Bible, every great leader had at least one advisor; every leader built a team. Yet, many business leaders try to do things all on their own. While the old cliché says, “It is lonely at the top,” it is only that way if you are trying to lead by yourself. Steward leaders believe in the power of others. They understand that no great company was ever built only by one person. Christian CEOs understand that when their people get better, the organization gets better.

Experience Question:

Where are you tempted to try to lead alone? Where are you hesitant to ask for help from others? How has that hurt your company or your leadership?

“Every leader needs to have othersquestion theirdecisions andothers to makedecisions onthe thingsthat the ownerquestions.

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