As Christian business leaders, the values we use to run our businesses impact everything. Our values have the potential to define our company culture. They guide our decision-making and drive our performance.
In our modern world, technology’s rapid evolution has changed many business sectors and practices. Communication is instant, production is faster, and digital tools for marketing, campaigning, and networking are more advanced than ever.
Facing business struggles, setbacks, conflicts, and hard financial times is something that business leaders and CEOs expect to experience.
I enjoy unhurried conversations where joys, hopes, dreams, and fears bubble to the surface of our often too-busy lives. As a pastor and frequent speaker on faith, work, and economics, I not only really like a bold cup of coffee but enjoy catching up with congregational members at a favorite coffee shop.
As a business leader, if you want to make the Core Values of your company drive behavior, then you must listen for them in every interaction that you have.
What I mean by that is this: When you are having a discussion with one of your employees or you are in a meeting, you must not only listen for the information that is being exchanged, but you must also listen for whether people are expressing themselves in accordance with the core values of the company.
Every company has financial targets. Almost every company has some form of key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure organizational performance. These typically include return on equity, working capital, debt to equity ratio, inventory turnover and gross / net profit margin.
