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 19^th 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.

What makes the law wonderful?  (119:18) - -  Just as God’s miracles and creation inspire amazement and wonder, so does his law.  Those who look carefully into God’s law will discover its order and design for living and, as a result, will be filled with awe.  Not only does God’s law guide us to live in a way that pleases God, it also offers us what we need to know to get the most out of life – for now and eternity.

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Organization Structure

Leaders, especially those within large organizations, often have to deal with varying degrees of bureaucracy and obstacles to optimal productivity. I witnessed this firsthand, having worked for a government agency for more than 18 years.

My Experience with the Federal Organization
Equipment deployments are determined at headquarters and rolled out on their schedules. Sometimes it takes years for smaller sized plants to get the efficient machines that larger plants get. These machines are more efficient, save hours and costs, yet it takes a lot of time to get them. Rather than buy new, better equipment for everyone meeting the required savings, many older pieces of equipment get transferred from larger facilities to smaller ones. This requires taking the old machine apart, trucking it somewhere else, and reassembling it yet again. This is very expensive and still results in less productivity and more hours than a new machine would bring. Eventually, the new machines will replace these.

All policies and procedures roll out from headquarters, the area, or the district. Manuals, policies, and handbooks fill bookcase after bookcase. There are tens of thousands of pages of reference material for even the smallest office, and much more for larger offices.

The focus of the organization seems lost in the bombardment of ever changing goals, objectives, people, processes, and equipment. Although it employs hundreds of thousands of people, and most would utter “customer service” when asked, the focus does not seem to resound clearly. Although its’ intent is to provide service, the primary focus internally seems to vary from cutting hours and costs, to higher productivity, to higher delivery scores, etc. The focus is lost on a multitude of goals and objectives. The biggest problem in determining these goals are that, like equipment deployments, top management computes them alone. They control the means, the goals, limit decisions by others, and then, ultimately judge their performance on one-sided measures.

The limited or restricted means of getting the work done include:

• Some plants are so short on people that a few sick calls may cause serious service issues
• Some plants do not have the necessary equipment to do the job effectively
• Decisions regarding policies, equipment, and even the complement of people are determined somewhere else
• Recording requirements require supervisors to leave the workroom floor for large lengths of time. This also leads to an increase in supervisor hours.
• The discipline process is both difficult and time-consuming.
• Every plant has multiple unions and divisions within them. For example, there are three different unions in the craft alone. Each negotiates its own contract nationally, and local unions negotiate their own Local Memorandum of Understanding.

How does this contrast with winning concepts used excellent companies?
The basic premise of any goal is to determine them between two parties, one the reviewer and other person seeking the goal. Productive goal setting generally requires the give and take of both parties in negotiating a moderately difficult, but achievable goal. Oddly enough when employees create their own goals, they are generally much higher.

Although organizational barriers won’t be discussed in length in this book, it does deserve mention. There are simply things outside of the control of the initial level supervisor. This book will focus on the things within the control of the initial level supervisor, as well as how to deal with some of the organizational barriers.

Some organizational traits of excellent companies include:

• Small corporate staffs
• A focus on only a few key business values and objectives
• Good news swapping
• Positive reinforcement used extensively
• Numerous daily informal conversations (informality is the norm) – fewer offices, fewer walls, open doors, managers informally speaking with associates while walking around operations
• Absence of rigid chain of command (protocol) except for big decisions
• Restrictions on numbers of employees under one roof

Likewise, task forces of excellent organizations generally include:

• Usually 10 or less members
• The reporting level and the seniority of members are directly proportional to the importance of the problem. Members must be able to complete whatever they recommend.
• Very limited duration
• Usually volunteers
• Assembled quickly, as needed, and generally without a formal charter
• Swift follow-up
• No assignment of staff
• Informal and often meager documentation

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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.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. Benjamin Franklin

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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The Bible Holds More Answers than all other References

Whether you are an atheist, religious follower of another faith, or still undecided, the Bible carries the many truths of all walks-of-life. The focus of this book will be limited largely to characteristics of leaders and the many examples of leadership found within the Bible. This is not the first book on leadership, success, and winning making references to the Bible and certainly not the last. Some of the many books including the Bible in its bibliography and/or index are: The Success System That Never Fails (W. Clement Stone), The Psychology of Winning (Dr. Denis Waitley), and The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey).

Jesus gave everything to his cause, trained his seven disciples to carry on after his absence, and founded the movement of Christianity that thrives today. He displayed true leadership in every verbal and non-verbal manner, responded wisely to rhetoric and actions, and shared infinite wisdom. The world thrives on a higher, natural order and when we engage them and make them our own, we will improve our chances of success.

Jesus is unequivocally the greatest leader that ever walked the Earth. His words and actions have been tested and tried through thousands of years and stand unscathed. He persuaded the people around him that he was the son of God and that Heaven existed for the faithful. Jesus was the only one to cross over into death and return. Jesus shared the promise God gives everyone that believes in him, eternal life in Heaven.

He convinced others through miracles and his teachings. He reinvigorated the Christian movement that lasts yet today. No other leader comes remotely close to this achievement. Imagine for a moment how carefully and meticulously scrutinized his teachings have been and how they still stand today unchanged. They form the basic building blocks of all civilization, including its rules of conduct and behavior. When you employ these teachings to every extent possible, you will have the most complete life possible. You will enjoy more success, contentment, and fulfillment than ever imagined. That is not to say that there won’t be times of sacrifice and suffering. There will be. Humans must endure these times and learn the lesson that comes from them. They are necessary if one is ever to experience the thrill of success. What is good if there is not evil? What is success if there is no failure? What is happiness without unhappiness?

And the words of the LORD are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace of clay, purified seven times. Psalm 12:6

Jesus is the ultimate teacher of ethics, morals, integrity, honesty, and fairness. He showed favoritism to no one, demanded little, and gave everything. He built relationships and lifted up the oppressed. He taught others how to deal with their enemies, love their neighbor, and live a righteous, moral life. As important as teaching, Jesus showed people how to live morally by the way he lived his own life.

The bible is the ultimate self-help book available. Only Jesus and God himself could give the right answer to all questions the first time, immediately.

Every management book in existence relies on the principles and guidelines of the bible, the true source of management, leadership, and happy living skills. The closer we walk with God the more we began to understand the driving forces in life.


Psalms 23:3 - he restores my soul. He guides me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

How does God guide us? (23:3) - - God does not reveal every detail of his plan for our lives. Nevertheless, there is an inner assurance that comes when we do his will. Developing a close, dependent relationship with the Lord will help us follow his way. And if we do the things we know God wants us to do, we’ll discover more details about his will for us.

Proverbs 20:7 – “The righteous man leads a blameless life; blessed are his children after him.”

Does blameless mean we must measure up to a list of rules? (20:7) - - Blameless does not imply perfection but integrity. Someone with integrity believes in God and strives constantly to align his life with God’s will.

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Where does the Bible fit in with Leadership?

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. Theodore Roosevelt

The common traits of all successful leaders include a strong commitment to ethics, morals, integrity, and self-discipline.  They have a desire for excellence within them and know how to motivate their employees along the same line.

There is no better source for moral, spiritual, and ethical guidelines than the bible.  Jesus was the ultimate teacher of living right, living just.  He motivated by being, doing, and speaking.  Jesus demonstrated leadership on all levels; he treated everyone justly, fairly, and equally; and filled all the parts of the all consummated being and leader.

 Principle-centered living unleashes personal power in the form of a self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors, and actions of others.  They are also unaffected by the situations and environmental influences that affect others.

The Bible will transform our lives And turn us from sin, If we read it and obey God’s principles within. - Sper

We reap the consequences of our choices.  The closer we follow God’s way, the more God will show us the way he has chosen for us.

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Mission Statement

Every person looks for value in life, and studies show that more are looking for it at work.  What they do and accomplish at work is critical to their feelings of self-worth.  Each person should know what it is that he or she values about work.  Maybe they value the customer service, level of productivity, or quality standards above all else.  Regardless of what it may be, every organization should incorporate a core, shared value into its’ mission statement in order to establish their primary purpose/goal.  A mission statement provides employees with direction toward organizational goals and values.  A mission statement must be in clear, simple, and understandable terms, while being visible for everyone, including customers to see.

An organizational mission statement should reflect the deep-shared vision and values of everyone within that organization.  Ideally, employees should create the mission statement themselves.  There is greater power in employee involvement and employees are more likely to fulfill those values when they are their own.  The mission statement creates great unity and tremendous commitment as it creates a frame of reference in people’s hearts and minds.

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“The companies that seemed the most focused – those with the most quantified statements of mission, with the most precise financial targets – had done less well than those with broader, less precise, more qualitative statements of corporate purpose.  (The companies without values fared less well, too.)”  Source:  In Search of Excellence, Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman Jr. (with Allan Kennedy in analysis of “superordinate goals), pp. 280-281.

Perhaps the biggest, most binding mission statement of the United States is the constitution itself.  Signed nearly 240 years ago, the constitution is still the foundation that our country rests upon.

Supervisors Wear Many Hats

A supervisor is responsible for finding the inefficiencies or problems in workflows, monitoring production processes, quality, supply chain, inventory, manufacturing, and a host of other operations.  Ultimately, the success of the company rests with supervisors, their employees, and the efficiency of their operations.  Supervisors attempt to fine-tune operational processes to be more efficient and profitable for the company.

Supervisors use tools like performance measurement, flowcharts, best practices information, and benchmarking.  These tools help determine where the problems are and the best methods to correct them.  Technology is changing at a phenomenal pace and what is new today is gone tomorrow.  To keep pace, supervisors must always be looking to upgrade their computer skills along with their managing skills.

Supervisors break down every process, analyze it, and make it (and its final product) better.  The universal goal is customer satisfaction, achieved through improving quality, efficiency and ultimately reducing costs for everyone.

I always looked at every operation with an eye towards tweaking it a little and making it more efficient.  If any time could be saved, even mere minutes, I would make a change.  It not only saved time, but employees got the message that we needed to be looking everywhere to become more efficient.

The key to making things work successfully is the supervisors’ ability to enlist the efforts of his or her employees.  Motivated employees will produce more with higher quality; have fewer accidents and better attendance.  The most critical characteristic of a successful leader is the type of relationship he has with his or her workers, peers, and bosses.  Because of its degree of importance, relationships will be discussed in length in following chapters.  Positive relationships are built on trust, integrity, honesty, listening, fairness, and the belief in one another.

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