In business, and in life, we face thousands of forks in the road. When your guiding principles are clear, honoring your core values is the easiest tough decision you’ll ever make.

Beware of pointing to other people’s wrong behavior as a justification for your own. When that is your only defense, you’re pointing to the splinter in the other person’s eye when you’ve got a wooden beam in your own.

It is easy to become distracted by what others think is important. When you put first things first and follow the right priorities, you’ll be blessed.

Companies that fail because their leaders fail, make the headlines. Ethical leaders who run profitable companies are not as newsworthy, but they exist. Their profits aren’t their measure of success, rather the means to achieve their mission.

We rarely associate love with leadership, yet all the qualities of great leaders—great communicator, visionary, knowledgeable, generous—are of no benefit if not exercised with love.

We all know that embracing diversity is good for business. Different talents, skills and perspectives are important for our organizations to thrive because different jobs need people with different qualities to deliver superior performance. When not embraced,...

When we work hard, we can get so bogged down that we fail to step back and see what’s important. We can get stuck in the details and miss the big picture.

There is an important difference between power and authority. Authority comes with a position and is limited in scope. Power is the ability to influence people and can be unlimited. To develop your power, be humble.

Although work/life balance is talked about a lot, it isn’t really what we seek. Instead, what we really want is more satisfaction in all areas of our lives.

Is your future a function of what you do now, or is what you do now a function of how you view your future? It is a little of both, so how do we affect change if we are dissatisfied?

Dealing with difficult people is so frustrating that our instinct is to give them some of their own medicine. It may give some satisfaction, but in the long run, it often makes things worse.

Great leaders know that no one has all the information, can see a situation from all perspectives, nor has all the answers. Acknowledging this is not a sign of weakness. It is a sign of strength. Mass Readings Audio...

What leaders say and do is important to the people if the people believe they are important to the leader. There is no simpler way to say “you’re important” than by remembering a person’s name.

Most of us toil every day for something that has no worth from an eternal perspective, yet, we measure our success in terms of dollars and cents. Great companies work for rewards that are substantially greater than profitability alone.

If you don’t face Monday mornings “filled with joy,” perhaps it is time to learn from companies that chose to embrace “fun” as a core value and bring joy back into work.

In our capitalistic society, it is great to witness companies that have found the way to true and lasting success by benefiting their people and the greater good of society.

By Your Life seeks to transform performance reviews from well-intended, often dreaded, and rarely effective meetings into a more positive and productive experience for all involved.

We don’t enter relationships with our coworkers with the commitment required for a healthy marriage, but perhaps we should. Imagine the difference if we recognized God in each other.

A manager has authority to direct the work of those who directly report to him or her. A leader, on the other hand, is one who influences others to achieve great things, regardless of title.

It is difficult not worry about our competition. But, without it, we can become complacent. So, with the right attitude, competition is a blessing to us.

Things go wrong and we look for someone to blame. But they will always go wrong because we are incapable of fully synthesizing complexity and what is efficient, isn’t necessarily right.

Most organizations suffer from a lack of accountability because people aren’t comfortable giving and receiving feedback. Feedback is a gift when it is given and when it is received.

Your vision, mission and values are the blueprint for the business you want to build. Are they gathering dust on a shelf or are they honored and lived by each person in your organization?

Pride gets in our way at work. It prevents us from accepting feedback. It causes us to view others as tools or obstacles. It prevents us from accepting responsibility. It limits our ability to collaborate. It affects our trustworthiness.

The problems we face are often ambiguous. We can’t create a list of right action that satisfies every situation. Instead, guiding principles and accountability help us do the right thing.

Fast is not always efficient. We rarely take into account the time it takes to correct mistakes, miscommunication, or misinformation when we react to what is presented to us.

Your beliefs matter. If you don’t believe in a cause, you won’t do anything to further it. If you don’t believe in yourself, you’ll likely not accomplish great things.

As leaders, our #1 job is to develop our people, but we can’t give others what we don’t have. If we are called to leadership, we must lead in a worthy manner and first develop ourselves.

Great leaders must have empathy, but that’s not enough. Empathy is necessary to be a great leader, but it is not sufficient. Truly great leaders are compassionate.

In business, we are trained to plan. We then measure success by how well we meet or exceed our plans. We have to let go of our plans to live in the present if we are to hear the Lord speaking to us.

No plan was ever executed without a few hitches, nor do all aspects of a plan bear fruit. They never do. Learn from failure, adjust, and move on. God provides what we need to do what he asks of us.

Practicing admiration, gratitude, generosity, and humility help us to appreciate each other, and not compete with each other so that we benefit from each other’s strengths. Now, that’s good for business!

We are called for a specific purpose, and it is in living this purpose that our lives have meaning. There is also a correlation to between purpose and productivity. Knowing and living according to your unique purpose is good for you and good for business. Vigil Audio...

Everything we have is a gift from God. We cannot take credit for the land yielding fruit, but we must cooperate with God in scattering seeds of joy, gratitude, forgiveness and love.

There are no winners and losers in the blame game. There are only losers. People who invest in blaming others cannot learn from mistakes.

The most holy Body and Blood of Christ are our covenant food for the journey to our eternal destination. Let us live up to our part of the covenant through our work this week.

You don’t have to leave the country to make disciples of all nations. You don’t have to stand on a street corner with a megaphone, go door to door, or organize bible studies. All these things can be good, but you can fulfill the Great Commission by how you live your...

In a world where technology can translate from one language to another and applications allow us to communicate via voice, text, and video within seconds across the globe (and across the cubicle wall), a failure to communicate is the cause of most problems in the...

It is easy to get sucked into office gossip, politics, or trivial conflicts and it can drown out his voice. To remain in the truth, we must make prayer a part of our work lives.

Our thoughts become actions, and actions lead to results. Recognizing and measuring your wins, big and small, fuels you to keep going and make progress on the journey to achieving your goals.

To love is to will the good of another. In business, this means we want others to be successful. In fact, the best thing for our businesses is for every person to be successful.

Great leaders don’t deal with headcount. They deal with people, each with a name and face, wants, needs, and dreams. These leaders choose to impact their lives for the better.

We must model integrity in the workplace so that others may learn to act with integrity. We all fail, but when we do, we don’t all take responsibility to make it right. Those who do, recognize that creating an environment based on integrity is an extraordinarily...

Sharing common values and beliefs is powerful. Along with common vision and mission or what you are going to do – in other words, being of one mind – it is essential for long-term success that everyone shares core values or how you will do what you do - being of one...

What will you do with the graces of the resurrection? Reflect on how you respond to malice and wickedness in the workplace and choose the right way.