Alignment around purpose is the key to the success we see in high impact organizations.
When you are clear as a leader as to your purpose it helps you make good clean decisions. It also helps you to make decisions for those things that are not easily determined. Turn the lights of purpose on in your life and in the life of your organizational purpose.
Alignment around purpose is the key to the success we see in high impact organizations.
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In this in-depth talk, ethnographer and leadership expert Simon Sinek reveals the hidden dynamics that inspire leadership and trust. In biological terms, leaders get the first pick of food and other spoils, but at a cost. When danger is present, the group expects the leader to mitigate all threats even at the expense of their personal well-being. Understanding this deep-seated expectation is the key difference between someone who is just an “authority” versus a true “leader.”
Finding your Godly destiny in the world of business will require that you stand with others and lead others in a way that produces a high impact. This talk will help you on that pathway. Simon Sinek is a trained ethnographer and the author of "Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action", Simon Sinek has held a life-long curiosity for why people and organizations do the things they do. Studying the leaders and companies that make the greatest impact in the world and achieve a more lasting success than others, he discovered the formula that explains how they do it. Sinek’s amazingly simple idea, The Golden Circle, is grounded in the biology of human decision-making and is changing how leaders and companies think and act. His innovative views on business and leadership have earned him invitations to meet with an array of leaders and organizations, including Microsoft, Dell, SAP, Intel, Chanel, Members of the United States Congress, and the Ambassadors of Bahrain and Iraq. Sinek recently became an adjunct staff member of the RAND Corporation, one of the most highly regarded think tanks in the world. He also works with the non-profit Education for Employment Foundation to help create opportunities for young men and women in the Middle East region. He lives in New York, where he teaches graduate level strategic communications at Columbia University. The most amazing business model on earth is the tree. It manufactures a product, regularly markets it to a target audience, collects payment at time of acquisition and pays its bills when services are rendered. It is generous in its provision, never lacking for supply and always at peace. It never burns the midnight oil, only working when the sun is out. Others take shelter in its shade and find security upon its branches. Trees have a 99.99% success rate compared to 4% of startup businesses. What do trees do that most people don’t? We teach the natural processes that produce exceptional, consistent results in our International Christian Business School, but there are a couple of subtle lessons I can pass on here in the blog. First of all, trees are never worried about money. Most successful people aren’t either. The ones who worry most about money, never get it. The ones who see money as a byproduct of a business well done or a service well rendered are far more successful in life. The worry about money is the most common limiting factor I see. You know you’re worried when you cannot be generous, when you hesitate to support the work of the kingdom, when you stress about the very issue Jesus addressed when He said, “Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?” But we persist in our worry. Here’s a secret that will cure your worry and free you up to have the resources you need for the calling of God on your life. It is found in Ezekiel 47:12… “Along the bank of the river, on this side and that, will grow all kinds of trees used for food; their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. They will bear fruit every month, because their water flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for medicine.”
The trees, which the Bible often compares us to, are planted along the bank of the river. But not just any river. It’s the river that flows out of the sanctuary. But not just any sanctuary. It’s the Holy of Holies, the place of His presence. So what does that mean to you and me? Simply this… The most important thing we can do on a daily basis is to drink of the Living Word which flows from His presence. He speaks. And His Word nourishes. You can have that river literally flowing from within you, coming out of Him. Jesus said it this way, “He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” But we must plant ourselves and wait on Him. Don’t be in such a hurry. Learn to wait on the Lord until that river begins bubbling up. Wait for Him daily. Let His river flow out of you and you will bear fruit – every month of the year! Until next time, Be fruitful and Multiply! - See more at: http://www.michaelpink.com/ultimate-business-model/#sthash.PTYVB7LG.dpuf Start Video at 3 minutes 25 seconds
God told Michael Pink, "Everything you need to learn about business, you can learn from the rainforest." Interestingly, the rainforest is the most abundant natural system on earth. It accomplishes this feat despite a poor quality of soil. In essence, the rainforest creates abundance from scarcity.
Additionally, to be in the rainforest is to experience a sense of peace or an ambiance of peace. The rainforest is able to produce it's highly productive state at peace. Also, flowers in the rainforest are expensive, in that they take a lot of energy and resource to produce, but a tree will drop all of its leaves to produce its flowers. Rainforest scientists refer to this process as marketing. From just these few examples you can see that there are parallels to business. This video is a brief discussion of the concept of how the rainforest can teach you lessons about how to run your business. From this understanding it is our hope that you will be propelled on the path to your ultimate eternal destiny in Christ Jesus.
Have you ever wondered what role destiny plays in everyday business life? Is it possible that destiny and purpose are such powerful concepts that they could actually be the answer to a more satisfying business place? Does God have a plan and a purpose for your business?
This video will challenge your preconceived notions of where Godly destiny starts and stops. With any luck, you will come away with a new appreciation for God's purposes through and upon the world of business. Cheryl Connor of Forbes Onlines writes, "While a great business plan, marketing strategy and team are essential components of a winning company, the best entrepreneurs are masters of their inner beings as well, according to health and spiritual expert Ron Williams (also an entrepreneur).
A master fitness trainer, bodybuilder (he’s participated in more than 250 competitions and has been Mr. Natural Universe 7 times), Williams experienced a childhood of poverty as a foster child. At age three, his father had left him with another family “to babysit” and never came back. Worse still, as a child who was already sensitive to feeling unwanted and unloved, he was sexually abused. Eventually, Williams found a calling in competitive sports. He learned all he could about health, nutrition and natural bodybuilding and set international records. Simultaneously he learned to feed his spirit and to serve others as a non-denominational pastor. Today he serves entrepreneurs and clients as a professor of exercise physiology, an author, and developer of the Iron Chest Master product many fitness enthusiasts have seen. Ron Williams is an entrepreneur, author, professional coach and a non-denominational pastor. To that end, I asked Williams about his observations for leaders in business. He strongly maintains that of the people he observes, those who are most successful in business (and life) are the ones who protect and nourish both their physical and spiritual health. The two are best when working together, hand in glove, he maintains. In that light, these are the things he suggests that entrepreneurs do every day: Journalist George Pitcher of opinion site NewStatesman is positively intrigued by the rise of a new breed of Christian business and finance professionals in London. “With the Archbishop of Canterbury and former oilman Justin Welby at the helm, the new ‘Power Christians’ of Britain are a formidable tribe whose aim is to reshape the culture of the City,” he writes.
During the testosterone-fuelled boom years preceding the crisis, Christian faith was about surviving in the City, but since 2008 and the revelation that it was all built on sand, Christians have been saying unequivocally that the gospel is non-negotiable, that working in commerce is about transforming the way we do business, that Christianity is disruptive of systemic greed and corruption: that, in short, their work serves their faith and not the other way round. They are converting markets, not just people. 'They Are Converting Markets, Not Just People.' With the emergence of this generation of self-confident, no-compromise disciples, the older City Christian benefactors, represented by figures such as Brian Griffiths, the vice-chairman of Goldman Sachs, have had their day. “It used to be that you made your money in the City and gave away big lumps of it to good causes,” Pitcher writes. “Griffiths was a driving force of the Christian Association of business Executives and its ‘principles for those in business’ - ‘Strive for excellence’, ‘Create wealth’, ‘Work ethically’ - which now look a bit like serving the system through the Christian gospel rather than making the system serve the gospel.” The Lord may be calling you to change the world through some sort of entrepreneurial venture. Wouldn't you find it useful to know what character traits could be developed to maximize your chance of success? By approaching life from a perspective of what the Lord has given you strength in - is empowering. This article by the Shepherd's Rod editor will encourage you to pursue your entrepreneurial destiny.
He pens, "Management guru Peter Drucker wrote that “entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.” If that is true, then what are the personal character traits that a person must have to be a successful entrepreneur? Now there may be an answer to that question, found at an intersection between leading management theory and business performance data. The dictionary definition of an entrepreneur is “one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise” (from Merriam-Webster). It is more than just innovation, but the ability to take what is innovative, create a market for it, and then deliver it to customers; or in the words of Scott Belsky (co-founder of Behance): “It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.” So, are organizational skills the key? Or management skills? Or vision?
In Genesis, man was given dominion over the garden to tend and keep it. The word "cultivate" comes from the word "culture". All culture is the cultivation of somebody somewhere developing their "garden". Our earthly assignment is to tend our garden and grow it. God is looking for His global garden to be cultivated by His people and subdued, and that includes taking dominion over opposition so that God's glory can fill it. What is your God-given garden of assignment and how are you cultivating it for God's glory?
Your work is the sphere that God places you in to advance His Kingdom. It is time to join the generation that wants to live everyday bringing the age to come to this present reality. Are you ready? This is well worth your time investment - just get ready to rise and shine - for the Glory of the Lord is upon you.
Joanna Gaines is one of the stars of the hit HGTV show - Fixer Upper. In this video, she shares how God guided her through her life decisions. Of note, is how the Lord instructed her to step out at times, and to step back at other times - but in the end - she finds a sense of destiny.
And even with all the Godly success in her life, you get a sense that the best is yet to come. Such is the way of those who serve the Lord - and walk in perpetual Godly purpose. For those of you called to the world of business, will you walk in the fullness of your destiny? Let Joanna's story spur you on. |
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