A researcher from Santa Clara University in California conducted a study of 1,500 business managers that revealed what workers value most in a supervisor. Above all else, workers wanted a manager whose word was good, who is honest, and trustworthy. Employees also said they respected a leader with competence, able to inspire workers, and skilled in providing direction.
Follow your conscience. Our conscience, as defined in 1974 The Merriam-Webster Dictionary, is the consciousness of the moral right and wrong of one’s own acts or motives. When you do acts that are morally wrong, your conscience is often burdened with guilt and remorse. Many times sleep is lost, your thoughts are muddied, and your focus isn’t there. Obviously, these detract you from your true desires.
When you remain morally right, you build trust, honesty, and integrity in those around you. Every manager must have these traits to be successful. As our conscience drives us towards a higher level of morality we continue to experience more personal freedom, power, security, and wisdom. Higher echelons of conscience (morality) require learning, commitment, and acting along the way.
You show integrity by being loyal to those who are not present. Defending the absent retains the trust of those present.
People who intentionally and repeatedly abuse trust must be removed from the organization because you must be able to trust all of your people all of the time.
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Proverbs 10:9 - - The man of integrity walks securely, but he who takes crooked paths will be found out.
Proverbs 11:3 - - The integrity of the upright guides them, but the unfaithful are destroyed by their duplicity.
Proverbs 13:6 - - Righteousness guards the man of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.
Psalm 15 – Truth is at the heart of every word and deed of a godly person.
Philippians 4:8 – 9: 8Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable – if anything is excellent or praiseworthy – think about those things. 9Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me – put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.
Ephesians 5:5 - - For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person – such a man is an idolater – has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
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Showing posts with label moral path. Show all posts
Showing posts with label moral path. Show all posts
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Basic Principles Exist in All People
God created humans with the expectation that they would follow basic principles. Although we have the freewill to make our own choices, our success depends on the good decisions we make. Guilt and remorse result from our deviation from our values and principles. Self-esteem, confidence, and integrity result from maintaining our value system and following established principles. While good value decisions build us, bad value decisions tear us down. In order to grow as humans and leaders, we must build more than we destroy.
Good and bad decisions are not equal in value. A person can make many good decisions just to destroy it all with one bad decision, like lying, cheating, or stealing. Remember the fallout for President Clinton after he lied about his involvement with Monica Lewinsky. He literally shattered the revered respect, integrity, and honesty that so many people had for him. Sadly, the lie became bigger and more damaging than the actual affair itself. President Clinton should have immediately confessed, taken accountability, and asked for forgiveness. By taking personal ownership of the problem, the general population would have been more understanding. It just goes to prove that you can’t make a problem better by more lies.
The Declaration of Independence is arguably the greatest doctrine written by human beings anywhere, anytime on the globe. This document created our country’s mission statement and blueprint by interweaving Christian principles with manmade laws. It was responsible for guiding our country out of slavery, racial discrimination, and gender bias. Many 19th century historians believed that the constitution was handed down by God. The Declaration of Independence is our country’s written guarantee that our personal freedoms are ours.
The important words inscribed on our currency are “In God We Trust.” This phrase is the foundation upon which this country was founded. God’s laws are embedded in our laws, our constitution, and our daily lives. It defines our lives, both personally and publicly. We trust God to deliver us from evil that keeps us down and distanced from him. We trust God to deliver his promise of eternal life for our faith in him. We trust God to protect us and keep us from harm. We call upon him as our Father, knowing that he always has our best interests in mind. And like a father, there are negative consequences for succumbing to temptation, evil ways, and immorality. Without consequences, we wouldn’t learn good from bad, and waver from the path chosen for us.
Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it. -- Proverbs 22:6. Ordinarily, those who are started done the right (moral) path of life will not abandon it.
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Proverbs 3: 11My son, do not despise the LORD’s discipline and do not resent his rebuke. 12because the LORD disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in.
Is there a difference between discipline and punishment? (3:11-12) - - The goal of discipline is to teach. Punishment is intended to inflict consequences for past misbehavior. Through discipline God wants us to instruct his people about himself. Its purpose is to enhance our character and strengthen our faith (Psalm 119:17).
Psalm 119:18 - - Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in your law.
Strong moral values expand your influence while immorality restricts. To read more about this book or purchase it now, click here for "Secret Techniques of the Successful Moral Manager."
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
True Success Is Only Possible By First Being Virtuous
No person can find true success without first being a person of virtue. How many have fallen from grace because they caved to the temptations of the flesh and/or power.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. Theodore Roosevelt
"God... has formed us moral agents... that we may promote the happiness of those with whom He has placed us in society, by acting honestly towards all, benevolently to those who fall within our way, respecting sacredly their rights, bodily and mental, and cherishing especially their freedom of conscience, as we value our own." --Thomas Jefferson to Miles King, 1814. ME 14:197
"Peace, prosperity, liberty and morals have an intimate connection." --Thomas Jefferson to George Logan, 1813. ME 13:384
"The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue." --Thomas Jefferson to M. Correa de Serra, 1814. ME 19:210
"Without virtue, happiness cannot be." --Thomas Jefferson to Amos J. Cook, 1816. ME 14:405
"Truth is certainly a branch of morality, and a very important one to society." --Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Law, 1814. ME 14:139
"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." --Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Macon, 1819. ME 15:180
"Honesty, disinterestedness and good nature are indispensable to procure the esteem and confidence of those with whom we live, and on whose esteem our happiness depends." --Thomas Jefferson to Francis Eppes, 1816. ME 19:241
"The moral sense [is] the first excellence of well-organized man." --Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1823. ME 15:418
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Psalm 10:5 - - His ways are always prosperous; he is haughty and your laws are far from him; he sneers at all his enemies.
Why do the wicked always prosper? (10:5) - - Some poetic statements like this are generalizations. Here the psalmist expresses frustration because a person who does live by a moral code can often deceive others and coerce from them valuable possessions, disregarding social decency or divine standards. When sin and injustice twist the fabric of society, only God’s final judgment, for which the psalmist pleads, will fully restore justice.
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