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27 Nov Integrous News: November 23, 2022
The Faith Driven Entrepreneur blog featured an article by Integrous Founder Paul Michalski. The title of the article is "Succession or Secession: The Unique Test of Faith-Driven Stewardship"...
23 Nov #148 – Integrity Idea 016: Pick the Right “Peter Principle”
ESSENCE: Integrity Ideas are specific actions a faithful leader can consider in leading faithfully through business a better way.INTEGRITY IDEA: Pick the Right "Peter Principle"COVERT-OVERT CONTINUUM (six Continuums for action): PracticesCOVERT-OVERT RATING (several levels from Highly Covert to Highly Overt): Highly CovertSTAKEHOLDERS SERVED: EmployeesMost Integrity...
16 Nov #147 – Integrity Idea 015: Remember the Fourth
ESSENCE: From time to time, we are devoting posts to describing specific actions a faithful leader can consider in leading faithfully through business a better way. We are calling these Integrity Ideas. INTEGRITY IDEA: Remember the FourthCOVERT-OVERT CONTINUUM (six Continuums for action): Proclamation and PoliciesCOVERT-OVERT RATING...
09 Nov #146 – Integrity Idea 014: Understand Your “Real” Culture
ESSENCE: From time to time, we are devoting posts to describing specific actions a faithful leader can consider in leading faithfully through business a better way. We are calling these Integrity Ideas. INTEGRITY IDEA: Understand Your "Real" CultureCOVERT-OVERT CONTINUUM (six Continuums for action): PracticesCOVERT-OVERT RATING (several...
02 Nov #145 – Integrity Idea 013: Set a Values “Plumb-Line”
ESSENCE: From time to time, we are devoting posts to describing specific actions a faithful leader can consider in leading faithfully through business a better way. We are calling these Integrity Ideas. INTEGRITY IDEA: Set a Values "Plumb-Line"COVERT-OVERT CONTINUUM (six Continuums for action): ProclamationCOVERT-OVERT RATING (several...
26 Oct #144 – What’s Your Noun?
What's your noun (no, not your "pronouns")? We’re talking about the word that describes your primary identity--the identity you will protect at the expense of all other secondary identities. Secondary identities often show up as adjectives that give extra color to how you live out...
19 Oct Integrous News: October 19, 2022
The Faith Driven Entrepreneur blog featured an article by Integrous Founder Paul Michalski. The title of the article is "Is Jesus Just Your Adjective?: The Problem with "Christian Entrepreneurs."...
19 Oct #143 – Breaking Free from the Matrix
As businesspeople or investors of faith, we face a choice much like Neo’s in the film The Matrix—two starkly different options with profound implications. The blue pill is business as usual — business in "the way of the world" or, more precisely, according to "the...
12 Oct #142 – Integrity Idea 012: Hire the Unhireable
From time to time, we are devoting posts to describing specific actions a faithful leader can consider in leading faithfully through business a better way. We are calling these Integrity Ideas. INTEGRITY IDEA: Hire the Unhirable. COVERT-OVERT CONTINUUM (six Continuums for action): PracticeCOVERT-OVERT RATING (several levels from...
05 Oct #141 – Covert or Overt?
Does faith/work integration require Overtly faithful practices? Leading an organization faithfully through business a better way in alignment with Biblical beliefs, principles and priorities, requires a continual prayerful balancing of the call to be Courageous through Overtness and the need to be Wise through Covertness....
28 Sep #140 – Integrity Idea 011: Celebrate Impact
ESSENCE: From time to time, we are devoting posts to describing specific actions a faithful leader can consider in leading faithfully through business a better way. We are calling these Integrity Ideas. INTEGRITY IDEA: Celebrate ImpactCOVERT-OVERT CONTINUUM (six Continuums for action): PracticeCOVERT-OVERT RATING (several levels from...
21 Sep #139 – Beautify or Uglify?
Business has the potential to beautify the world--or uglify it. “Beautiful” was clearly God's design when he created everything and declared it "very good", and “beautiful” is the word that comes to mind as you read the description of the New Jerusalem that is coming--God's...
14 Sep Integrous News: September 14, 2022
The Faith Driven Entrepreneur blog featured an article by Integrous Founder Paul Michalski. The title of the article is "Does Your Business Beautify or Uglify: The Call To Create With Beauty."...
14 Sep #138 – Succession or Secession?
There are two basic choices when a faithful leader who has faithfully shaped the purpose, values and culture of an organization no longer wants, or is no longer able, to continue to lead the organization—succession or secession . But we are not talking about...
07 Sep #137 – Integrity Idea 010: Culture Coordinator
ESSENCE: From time to time, we are devoting posts to describing specific actions a faithful leader can consider in leading faithfully through business a better way. We are calling these Integrity Ideas. INTEGRITY IDEA: Culture Coordinator COVERT-OVERT CONTINUUM (six Continuums for action): ...
31 Aug #136 – Is “Quiet Quitting” Unhuman?
The new viral concept of Quiet Quitting is about doing just enough at work to get by--minimizing "work" in order to maximize "life". We believe Quiet Quitting is "unhuman" and a consequence of business as usual. God made us to flourish through work, and we...
24 Aug #135 – Integrity Idea 009: Intercessory Prayer
From time to time, we are devoting posts to describing specific actions a faithful leader can consider in leading faithfully through business a better way. We are calling these Integrity Ideas. INTEGRITY IDEA: Intercessory PrayerCOVERT-OVERT CONTINUUM (six Continuums for action): PrayerCOVERT-OVERT RATING (several levels from Highly...
17 Aug #134 – Integrity Idea 008: Group Prayer
From time to time, we are devoting posts to describing specific actions a faithful leader can consider in leading faithfully through business a better way. We are calling these Integrity Ideas. INTEGRITY IDEA: Group PrayerCOVERT-OVERT CONTINUUM (six Continuums for action): PrayerCOVERT-OVERT RATING (several levels from Highly...
10 Aug #133 – Integrity Idea 007: Personal Prayer
From time to time, we are devoting posts to describing specific actions a faithful leader can consider in leading faithfully through business a better way. We are calling these Integrity Ideas. INTEGRITY IDEA: Personal PrayerCOVERT-OVERT CONTINUUM (six Continuums for action): PrayerCOVERT-OVERT RATING (several levels from Highly...
03 Aug #132 – Integrity Idea 006: Provide Humanity Resources
From time to time, we are devoting posts to describing specific actions a faithful leader can consider in leading faithfully through business a better way. We are calling these Integrity Ideas. INTEGRITY IDEA: Provide Humanity ResourcesCOVERT-OVERT CONTINUUM (six Continuums for action): Proclamation and PracticesCOVERT-OVERT RATING (several...
27 Jul #131 – Integrity Idea 005: Fund an Employee Fund
From time to time, we are devoting posts to describing specific actions a faithful leader can consider in leading faithfully through business a better way. We are calling these Integrity Ideas. INTEGRITY IDEA: Fund an Employee FundCOVERT-OVERT CONTINUUM (six Continuums for action): PracticesCOVERT-OVERT RATING (several levels...
20 Jul #130 – Integrity Idea 004: Promote an ERG
From time to time, we are devoting posts to describing specific actions a faithful leader can consider in leading faithfully through business a better way. We are calling these Integrity Ideas. INTEGRITY IDEA: Promote an ERGCOVERT-OVERT CONTINUUM (six Continuums for action): PeopleCOVERT-OVERT RATING (several levels from...
13 Jul #129 – Integrity Idea 003: Pay Today
From time to time, we are devoting posts to describing specific actions a faithful leader can consider in leading faithfully through business a better way. We are calling these Integrity Ideas. INTEGRITY IDEA: Pay TodayCOVERT-OVERT CONTINUUM (six Continuums for action): PracticesCOVERT-OVERT RATING (several levels from Highly...
09 Jul Integrous News: July 9, 2022
Integrous Founder Paul Michalski was interviewed by Chad Burmeister on his Living A Better Story podcast. The episode was released on July 9, 2022 and the topic was "Moments of Realization"....
06 Jul #128 – Integrity Idea 002: Proclaim A Faithful Purpose
ESSENCE: From time to time, we are devoting posts to describing specific actions a faithful leader can consider in leading faithfully through business a better way. We are calling these Integrity Ideas. INTEGRITY IDEA: Proclaim a Faithful PurposeCOVERT-OVERT CONTINUUM (six Continuums for action): ProclamationCOVERT-OVERT RATING (several...
29 Jun #127 – Integrity Idea 001: Hire a Chaplain
From time to time, we are devoting posts to describing specific actions a faithful leader can consider in leading faithfully through business a better way. We are calling these Integrity Ideas. INTEGRITY IDEA: Hire a chaplain to be available for employees COVERT-OVERT CONTINUUM (six...
22 Jun #126 – Integrity Ideas: What’s Coming
From time to time, we will now begin describing specific actions a leader can consider during the Re-Align step of Integriosity®--actions that will begin to Re-Align the organization with Biblical beliefs, principles and priorities. We will call the posts "Integrity Ideas". The Integriosity model organizes...
15 Jun #125 – Choices: What’s Your “O”
A life of faith is a life of choices. For a faithful leader, one of those choices is the "O" that drives their leadership. There are two options--obedience or outcome. It is a choice between the kingdom of this world and the Kingdom of God....
08 Jun #124 – Another Side Road – Monastecize
Faithful leaders seeking to lead faithfully can get detoured from the ancient path toward business a better way. We call those detours Side Roads when they substitute a lesser "good" for transformational heart-change in the organization--transformation of its WHY. In prior posts we identified six:...
01 Jun #123 – “Why” In Deed: The Path to a Ministry OF Work
There is much talk about the intersection of "work" and "ministry". We believe there are three main ways that "work" and "ministry" intersect, only one of which is true faith/work integration--complete alignment. There is Ministry AT Work (work as a platform for ministry), Ministry THROUGH...
31 May Integrous News: May 25, 2022
The Faith Driven Entrepreneur blog featured an article by Integrous Founder Paul Michalski. The title of the article is "Why" in Deed: The Path to a Ministry OF Work....
25 May #122 – The Importance of Imago Dei
Understanding Imago Dei is central to changing the heart of an organization to align with Biblical beliefs, values and priorities. Understanding that every human being is created in the image of God has important implications for work and business. It is through understanding Imago Dei...
18 May #121 – Creation Capitalism
Sadly, "capitalism" has become a four-letter word for many people. Just as there are dozens of ways to define capitalism, there are dozens of terms people have come up with to describe the problems with capitalism that have made it a four-letter word and...
11 May #120 – The “Great De-Humanization”
We believe the mass exodus of workers being called the "Great Resignation" can more appropriately be called the "Great De-Humanization", not only for what caused it but also for what it is causing. A recent study concluded that "toxic work culture is the single best...
04 May #119 – Faithfully Positioning Profit – Optimize vs Maximize
It is impossible to talk honestly about the WHAT, WHY and HOW of business in alignment with Biblical beliefs, values and priorities without addressing how profit fits in. Profit is NOT bad, and the creation by business of economic prosperity is good. Profit in a...
27 Apr #118 – Whose “Will” Be Done?
“Faithful vs willful” really is a daily choice that a "faithful business-leader" must accept and wrestle with in order to lead faithfully. Even the phrase “faithful business-leader” seems to hold the tension of the “faithful/willful” dilemma. A “faithful” person wants to put God first....
20 Apr Integrous News: April 20, 2022
The Faith Driven Entrepreneur blog featured an article by Integrous Founder Paul Michalski. The title of the article is "Whose 'Will' Be Done?"...
20 Apr #117 – How Easter Shapes Business
Easter is important for every faith-inspired worker or business leader because it should serve as a reminder of a bigger WHY for our work and business rooted in God's Restoration plan for His Kingdom. N.T. Wright writes that the resurrection represents the beginning of God's...
13 Apr #116 – Words That Shape Culture
We believe words are important and powerful. Words (and disordered words) can either support or undermine efforts to move an organization's culture toward faithfully "doing right" through business a better way. Disordered words can affect how leaders shape an organization's culture and view its WHY--the...
09 Apr Integrous News: April 8, 2022
Integrous is proud to be providing integrity advice and counsel for His Story, The Musical, a new Broadway musical in development about the life of Jesus....
06 Apr #115 – Words That Shape Identity
We believe words are important and powerful. The culture of the world is filled with words that blind us to God’s purpose for work--words that reinforce work as a burden to be avoided rather than a blessing of God's creation. Disordered words that embody the...
30 Mar #114 – Words That Shape Work
We believe words are important and powerful. The culture of the world is filled with words that blind us to God’s purpose for work--words that reinforce work as a burden to be avoided rather than a blessing of God's creation. Disordered words that embody the...
23 Mar #113 – The Power of Words (and Disordered Words)
For a leader seeking to lead an organization to faithfully “do right” through business a better way, or a person seeking to "work" in alignment with Biblical beliefs, values and priorities, WORDS MATTER. We believe words are important and powerful. The culture of the world...
22 Mar Integrous News: March 22, 2022
Integrous Founder Paul Michalski was the guest speaker at the monthly Toolbox Ministries-Galleria lunch held on March 9, 2022 at The Houston Racquet Club in Houston, Texas. Paul's talk was titled The 7 Stages of My Journey To the Why of Work: Understanding the...
16 Mar #112 – Silos Are for Farms (and Famines)–Organizational Silos
For a leader seeking to lead an organization to faithfully “do right” through business a better way, eliminating organizational silos must be a priority. In this post, we look at “wisdom” and “information” silos. Organizational silos are bad for the leader, bad for the...
09 Mar #111 – Silos Are for Farms (and Famines)–Personal Silos
For a leader seeking to lead an organization to faithfully “do right” through business a better way or an investor seeking to invest in alignment with Biblical beliefs, values and priorities, eliminating personal silos must be a priority. In this post, we look at...