05 Nov #301 – Integriosity – The Path to Here – 300 Markers
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It was January 29, 2020, when Integriosity® post #001 (The Foundation) was published. Over the last nearly six years, we have been laying out and expanding on a model for moving toward what we call Integriosity–leading with faithful integrity through business a better way toward Biblical flourishing.
It is time to pause again, take another breath and look back over the last 300 posts as we did after 100, 200 and 250. We hope this is a helpful roadmap for looking back, exploring topics of particular interest, reading those you may have missed, and re-reading those that were convicting.
- Years one and two were largely devoted to laying out the basic Integriosity model (posts #001-#102).
- Years 3-4 (posts #103-#201) were a mix of expanding and applying the model and introducing practical suggestions for faithful leaders through what we call Integrity Ideas.
- The most recent 100 posts have been heavily weighted toward introducing practical ideas for faithful leaders–51 of the last 100 have been what we call Integrity Ideas.
This is what we said we would be doing back in post #001:
We believe there are many leaders who are guided by the Bible in their personal lives and sincerely want to live an integrated faith life at work. They have heard about “faith/work integration” in a sermon or conference or book and genuinely want to pursue God’s purpose for their work and for the people and organizations they lead.
Sadly, many are confused or frustrated or even intimidated. Some have given up. Others think they are doing it, but they are actually missing the mark. These problems frequently are the result of hearing a misguided message, an incomplete message or a purely theological message (and then wondering how it practically applies “back at the office”). Many fall into what has been called the “knowing-doing gap”.
There is an answer–we call it Integriosity®. In these blog posts, we will explain the need for a different approach to faith/work integration (the faith and work movement has been around for 90 years, yet 90% of workers are not mobilized for their employers), debunk the “myths” that create confusion, frustration and intimidation, identify the “faith as usual” misses we call “Agonizing”, “Individualizing”, “Monetizing”, “Cosmeticizing”, “Prosperitizing” and “Interimizing”, and explain the path to Integriosity and its fruit. Integriosity is a new word, but these are not new ideas. It is going back to Biblical basics and then rolling up our sleeves to see how to actually implement them “back at the office” in a way that humanizes people, beautifies the world and glorifies God. It is seeking an “ancient path” referenced in Jeremiah 6:16.
It seems like a time to take another step back to see how the pieces come together to shape a better way to lead organizations–a better way to work–a better way to be “human” and help others be “human”–business a better way.
Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. (Jeremiah 6:16)
INTEGRIOSITY® – Understanding and Applying the Four Steps
INTEGRIOSITY: The Detailed Roadmap
- THE BASICS
- THE RUBBLE.
**In post #248, we identified a fourth Gap–the Safety/Surrender Gap
**In post #124 we identified a seventh Side Road–Monastecize.
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- PLACEBO PROBLEMS (#036)
- Missed Purpose
- Missed Calling
- Missed Flourishing
- Increased Misery
- Increased Hypocrisy
- Unsustainability
- PLACEBO PROBLEMS (#036)
- THE FOUR STEPS OF INTEGRIOSITY
- RENEW
- The Bridge from “As Usual” to “A Better Way” (#037)
- Biblical Principles
- Management Matters (#038)
- Keep First Things First
- Overview (#039)
- Righteousness
- Kingdom
- Bigger Gospel (#045)
- Lessons from Creation – Why We Are Here (#046)
- Lessons from Creation – Imago Dei (#047)
- Lessons from Creation – Work is Good (#048)
- Lessons from Creation – Work is Necessary (#049)
- Where We Are Going – A Restored City (#050)
- Where We Are Going – We Have a Role (#051)
- Role of Work Business and Redemption (#052)
- Love
- Loving Generously – Faithful Presence (#053)
- Loving Generously – Being “Godly” (#054)
- Loving by Serving – Nature of Work (#055)
- Loving by Serving – Nature of Business (#056)
- Loving by Serving – Purpose of Work and Business (#057)
- Respect and Sustainability – God’s Limits (#058)
- What About Profit? (#059)
- Humility
- Four Principles and Eight Keys (#065)
- Five Key Mind-Shifts (#066)
- RE-IMAGINE
- RE-ALIGN
- RESTORE
- RENEW
- Integriosity–The Roadmap (#102)
Expanding and Applying the Model
- GENERAL
- Business as Usual in “Ministry” (#103)
- Business a Better Way “Without Faith” (#104)
- Business a Better Way vs Stakeholder Capitalism (#105)
- Doing Right in Law “Without Faith” (#106)
- Work as Life (#107)
- Work Within Life (#108)
- Bigger Returns (#109)
- Integriosity–What About Profit? (#110)
- Silos Are for Farms (and Famines) – Personal Silos (#111)
- Silos Are for Farms (and Famines) – Organizational Silos (#112)
- The Power of Words (and Disordered Words) (#113)
- Words That Shape Work (#114)
- Words That Shape Identity (#115)
- Words That Shape Culture (#116)
- How Easter Shapes Business (#117)
- Whose “Will” Be Done (#118)
- Faithfully Positioning Profit – Optimize vs Maximize (#119)
- The “Great De-Humanization” (#120)
- Creation Capitalism (#121)
- The Importance of Imago Dei (#122)
- “Why” In Deed: The Path to a Ministry of Work (#123)
- Another Side Road – Monastecize (#124)
- Choices: What’s Your “O” (#125)
- Is “Quiet Quitting” Unhuman? (#136)
- Succession or Secession? (#138)
- Beautify or Uglify? (#139)
- Covert or Overt? (#141)
- Breaking Free from the Matrix (#143)
- What’s Your Noun? (#144)
- Is Profit Your Turkey? (#150)
- Leading Faithfully by Leaving Faithfully (#152)
- Eight Keys for Starting 2023 Leading Faithfully (#153)
- Four “First Things” To “Keep First” on Leading Faithfully (Part 1) (#154)
- Four “First Things” To “Keep First” on Leading Faithfully (Part 2) (#155)
- Caring for People–Heart, Hype or Hustle? (#159)
- Why Easter Matters (for Work, Business and Investing) (#168)
- Three “Priority” Problems (and Some Solutions) (#172)
- Words that Shape Act III (Eliminate “Retirement”) (#176)
- Words that Inspire: “Play Big” (#178)
- Are You an “RYR”? (#187)
- Kingdom Border Protection (#193)
- Don’t “Do an Ahaz” (#197)
- Don’t Make Profit Your “Turkey” (#199)
- Prioritize Biblical Flourishing (#200)
- Model the “Word of the Year 2023” (#202)
- Don’t Just Sprinkle “Reindeer Dust” (#203)
- Don’t Just “Give” Generously in 2024 (#205)
- Leading Faithfully from the Middle (#206)
- Why Easter Matters (for Work, Business and Investing) (#217)
- “Choices” Rewind: The Choice (#222)
- “Choices” Rewind: Optimize vs Maximize (#223)
- “Choices” Rewind: Outcome or Obedience (#224)
- “Choices” Rewind: Covert or Overt (#225)
- “Choices” Rewind: Beautify or Uglify (#226)
- Keep the ESG/DEI Baby (and Your Nose) (#231)
- A “Plumb Line” Alternative to “Pendulum” MEI (#235)
- “Real” Culture Revisited (#237)
- “Pay Today” Revisited (#238)
- “Commenting on Controversy” Revisited (#239)
- Integrity Is Not Enough (#243)
- Crossing the Fourth Gap (#248)
- Warning for Leaders: “DDD” (#249)
- Embrace Your Potential–Be the One (#250)
- Is Your Thanksgiving ‘Turkey” Flourishing? (#252)
- The Great Reattachment Opportunity (#254)
- Is Your Business in the Twilight Zone? (#255)
- Is Your Stewardship Just Religious “Reindeer Dust”? (#256)
- Remember the WHY of Faithful Integrity (#258)
- The Heartless Hustle of “Quiet Quitting” (#260)
- Don’t Take the Bribery Bait (#264)
- Give Up Sinatra for Lent (and Then Forever) (#267)
- Three Hops and a Leap: Over the Gaps to Faithful Integrity (#270)
- Wait, Just Don’t Delay (#271)
- Why Easter Represents Hope for Work, Business, and Investing (#272)
- Priority Wins – What’s Yours? (#273)
- Toward Biblical Flourishing (#275)
- Plain Pricing: Exempt Is Not a Pass (#276)
- What Is Your Organization’s “Do Unto Others” Culture? (#279)
- Stay Off the Slippery “Can We” Slope (#281)
- Don’t Bet on Horses (or Chariots) (#282)
- Surrender the Pigs (#283)
- What Kind of Impact Investor Are You? (#284)
- Turn with All Your Might (#285)
- Don’t Get Turned Back (#286)
- Don’t Turn Back or Give Up–Finish Well (#287)
- The Journey of Faithful Leader (#288)
- Don’t Turn People into Numbers (#290)
- Re-Imagine “Labor Day” (#292)
- Why “Doing Good” Is Not Enough (#293)
- It’s Not About the Frankincense (#297)
- But What Does It All Mean? (#300)
- “LEADING FAITHFULLY” BASICS
- “Leading Faithfully” Basics – The Choice (#157)
- “Leading Faithfully” Basics – Faithful Integrity (#158)
- “Leading Faithfully” Basics – The Ancient Path (#160)
- “Leading Faithfully” Basics – The 4-Step Journey (#161)
- “Leading Faithfully” Basics – The Brokenness of “Business as Usual” (#164)
- “Leading Faithfully” Basics – The “Gaps” (#165)
- “Leading Faithfully” Basics – The “WHY” Wave (#167)
- “Leading Faithfully” Basics – The “Way” of the World (#169)
- “Leading Faithfully” Basics – How the World’s “Way” Wrecks “Work” (#171)
- “Leading Faithfully” Basics – The Toxicity of “Work as Usual” (#173)
- “Leading Faithfully” Basics – The Misses of “Faith as Usual” (#179)
- “Leading Faithfully” Basics – The Stumbling Blocks of “Faith as Usual” (#180)
- “Leading Faithfully” Basics – The “Side Road” Detours of “Faith as Usual” (#181)
- “Leading Faithfully” Basics – The First Step – RENEW (#188)
- “Leading Faithfully” Basics – First Things – Righteousness (#189)
- “Leading Faithfully” Basics – First Things – Kingdom (#190)
- “Leading Faithfully” Basics – First Things – Love (#192)
- “Leading Faithfully” Basics – First Things – Humility (#196)
INTEGRITY IDEAS – Practical Suggestions for Faithful Integrity
- Integrity Ideas: What’s Coming (#126)
- Integrity Idea 001: Hire A Chaplain (#127)
- It is about hiring a corporate chaplain to be available to employees.
- Integrity Idea 002: Proclaim a Faithful Purpose (#128)
- It is about proclaiming the organization’s bigger WHY through a clear, written purpose statement.
- Integrity Idea 003: Pay Today (#129)
- It is about paying employees for their work, paying refunds to customer/clients, and paying suppliers/vendors promptly.
- Integrity Idea 004: Promote an ERG (#130)
- It is about facilitating the creation by employees of a Biblically faith-based Employee Resource Group (ERG).
- Integrity Idea 005: Fund an Employee Fund (#131)
- It is about creating and funding a “rainy day” fund to assist employees with unexpected expenses.
- Integrity Idea 006: Provide Humanity Resources (#132)
- It is about providing employees with faith-centered resources for their humanity–resources to help them flourish by living more fully at work and at home.
- Integrity Idea 007: Personal Prayer (#133)
- It is about a leader praying privately for the organization, for its owners, employees, customers, vendors and community, and for wisdom and guidance in every decision.
- Integrity Idea 008: Group Prayer (#134)
- It is about a leader organizing or facilitating groups of people in an organization to pray for the organization, for its owners, leaders, employees, customers, vendors and community, and for wisdom and guidance in decisions.
- Integrity Idea 009: Intercessory Prayer (#135)
- It is about a leader engaging people outside an organization who are gifted and trained in prayer to pray for the organization, for its owners, leaders, employees, customers, vendors and community, and for wisdom and guidance in decisions.
- Integrity Idea 010: Culture Coordinator (#137)
- It is about a leader putting in place a coordinator for the cultivation and protection of the organization’s desired culture.
- Integrity Idea 011: Celebrate Impact (#140)
- It is about a leader arranging for customers and clients to share with the organization’s employees how the organization’s products or services have impacted their lives and allowed them to impact other lives.
- Integrity Idea 012: Hire the Unhireable (#142)
- It is about a leader being intentional about hiring people who have a difficult time getting hired because of an employment challenge, such as the formerly incarcerated, recovering addicts, the homeless, the under-educated, and the developmentally disabled.
- Integrity Idea 013: Set a Values “Plumb-Line” (#143)
- It is about Re-Imagining and communicating values that reflect and support the organization’s bigger WHY.
- Integrity Idea 014: Understand Your “Real” Culture (#146)
- It is about undertaking an honest assessment of the nature and health of the organization’s current culture, and an honest assessment of culture requires an honest assessment of what employees experience to be the real WHY behind the organization’s purpose, values and culture.
- Integrity Idea 015: Remember the Fourth (#147)
- It is about remembering the Fourth Commandment to keep a Sabbath.
- Integrity Idea 016: Pick the Right “Peter Principle” (#148)
- It is about providing coaching and mentoring for employees, particularly those in supervisory positions.
- Integrity Idea 017: Listen to a Life (#149)
- It is about taking the time to listen to the life “story” of a work colleague (particularly direct reports), customer or vendor.
- Integrity Idea 018: Use Tech “Whysely” (#151)
- It is about considering WHY new technology is being adopted to ensure its use aligns with the organization’s WHY.
- Integrity Idea 019: Banish “Bribery” (#156)
- It is about prohibiting the receipt or payment of “bribes”, whether or not “legal”, which goes way beyond envelopes of cash passed under the table.
- Integrity Idea 020: Buy Tickets (#162)
- It is about purchasing tickets for various stakeholders to attend local events, such as films, plays, concerts and other performances, which may or may not be faith-inspired or more overtly faith-themed.
- Integrity Idea 021: Cancel Cursing (#163)
- It is about discouraging employees from engaging in communications and behavior that slander, disrespect, malign, dishonor, humiliate, or disparage other employees (e.g., gossip).
- Integrity Idea 022: Adopt Adoption (#166)
- It is about adopting practices and benefits that are specifically designed to support employees who adopt a child.
- Integrity Idea 023: Segregate Sacred Space (#170)
- It is about (1) creating a space where employees can go to sit silently and pray, meditate or “chill” AND (2) encouraging its use.
- Integrity Idea 024: Optimize Compensation (#174)
- It is about (1) reviewing the compensation of all levels of employees (including the ratios between the most highly compensated employees and the median compensation of employees) and (2) prayerfully considering whether the maximization of flourishing and good stewardship of the organization require adjustments.
- Integrity Idea 025: Reward Rest (#175)
- It is about instituting policies that (1) provide employees with meaningful periods of rest and (2) help cultivate a culture in which taking periods of rest is honored and encouraged (and in which failing to take them is actively discouraged).
- Integrity Idea 026: Keep Your Word (#177)
- It is about cultivating an organizational culture that prioritizes keeping its promises, fulfilling its contracts and honoring its commitments, whether or not legally required to do so and even if it is costly or inconvenient.
- Integrity Idea 027: Embrace “Biblical DEI” (#182)
- It is about cultivating an organizational culture that understands, implements and reflects a Biblical understanding of “diversity, equity and inclusion”.
- Integrity Idea 028: Embrace “Biblical ESG” (#183)
- It is about cultivating an organizational culture that understands, implements and reflects how an organization seeking to align with Biblical beliefs, principles and policies needs to re-imagine its vision around “environmental, social and governance” matters.
- Integrity Idea 029: Create a Team “Humanbook” (#184)
- It is about creating a directory of team members that recognizes the unique humanity of each person by including personal details that help people feel known, affirmed and connected.
- Integrity Idea 030: Encourage “Biblical EQ” (#185)
- It is about cultivating an organizational culture in which people understand the importance of, and are encouraged and supported in developing, “emotional intelligence” from a Biblical perspective.
- Integrity Idea 031: Catalyze “Kindness” (#186)
- It is about cultivating an organizational culture in which people are encouraged to engage in acts of “kindness” toward co-workers, customers, suppliers and the community.
- Integrity Idea 032: Adopt a “77” Policy (#191)
- It is about adopting a policy of forgiveness and second chances in dealing with employee performance and problems.
- Integrity Idea 033: Provide “Plain” Pricing (#194)
- It is about providing customers with transparent and honest information about the price of the organization’s products and services.
- Integrity Idea 034: Fortify Family (#195)
- It is about adopting practices and benefits that are specifically designed to encourage and support healthy employee families.
- Integrity Idea 035: Tear Down Those Walls (#198)
- It is about taking steps to identify and dismantle the barriers to information and wisdom “flow” that can exist within an organization.
- Integrity Idea 036: Thank Your Temps (#204)
- It is about acknowledging the contributions of, and thanking, your temporary and freelance workers at year-end.
- Integrity Idea 037: Take Steps To “PPP” (#207)
- It is about taking steps to Protect your Purpose from Profiteers.
- Integrity Idea 038: Recall Your Faithful Purpose (#208)
- It is implementing practices to remind your stakeholders about your WHY–your organization’s Re-Imagined Purpose as reflected in its Re-Imagined Values.
- Integrity Idea 039: Identify Your Beauty (#209)
- It is about identifying and communicating to stakeholders how the organization’s products and services Beautify the World.
- Integrity Idea 040: Set Integrity Boundaries (#210)
- It is about faithful leaders identifying, establishing and communicating the integrity lines the organization will not cross in how it operates, no matter the cost.
- Integrity Idea 041: Don’t “Toolify” Humans (#211)
- It is about prioritizing people over profit.
- Integrity Idea 042: Give “Horizontal” Thanks (#212)
- It is about faithful leaders taking the time to express their appreciation for co-workers.
- Integrity Idea 043: Create a Cue Card (#213)
- It is about literally creating a pocket-sized card that helps employees remember values, principles or practices critical to ensuring that the organization’s behavior aligns with its purpose.
- Integrity Idea 044: Re-Imagine the Box (#214)
- It is about re-imagining the traditional “Suggestion Box” by putting in place practices to ensure that the ideas, wisdom, knowledge, and experience of everyone in an organization is available where it is needed in the organization.
- Integrity Idea 045: Terminate with Gold (#215)
- It is about taking extra care in applying the Golden Rule when deciding whether to terminate, and in terminating, the employment of a human being.
- Integrity Idea 046: Clean Your Chain (#216)
- It is about putting in place policies and practices to ensure that your supply chain does not engage in practices that are antithetical to the WHY of your organization.
- Integrity Idea 047: Be Trustworthy (#218)
- It is about putting in place policies and practices to ensure that the organization’s stakeholders feel they can trust the organization and its people.
- Integrity Idea 048: Keep Controversy Within Your Mission (#219)
- It is about putting in place policies and practices to ensure that the organization is prepared to take positions on controversial social and political issues that impact pursuing its purpose, values and culture but resists taking positions on potentially divisive issues that do not.
- Integrity Idea 049: Close the Gaps (#220)
- It is about organizing or facilitating study groups, or making available resources, that help employees get across the three “gaps” that can keep them from experiencing work as God intended it and that can make it more difficult for the organization to operate with faithful integrity through business a better way toward Biblical flourishing.
- Integrity Idea 050: Discourage Winning (#221)
- It is about cultivating an organizational culture that “encourages mutuality” in negotiations–looking for “win-win” results that take into account the needs and objectives of all parties involved.
- Integrity Idea 051: Energize External Generosity (#227)
- It is about establishing practices that encourage employees or customers to give their time, talent, and treasure to causes outside the organization.
- Integrity Idea 052: Do a Devo (#228)
- It is about periodically providing a Biblical devotional message to employees (and other stakeholders) who “opt-in”.
- Integrity Idea 053: Climb a Hill (#229)
- It is about faithful leaders accepting, seeking and even creating opportunities to share publicly about their organization’s pursuit of faithful integrity through business a better way toward Biblical flourishing.
- Integrity Idea 054: Onboard with Intention (#230)
- It is about designing an onboarding process for new employees that introduces, reflects and reinforces the most important elements of the organization’s Re-Imagined Purpose, Re-Imagined Values and Re-imagined Culture.
- Integrity Idea 055: Nurture Nutrition (#232)
- It is about adopting practices and benefits that are specifically designed to encourage and support the nutritional health of employees.
- Integrity Idea 056: Fortify Fitness (#233)
- It is about adopting practices and benefits that are specifically designed to encourage and support the physical fitness of employees.
- Integrity Idea 057: Waken Wellness (#234)
- It is about adopting practices and benefits that are specifically designed to encourage and support the total wellness of employees, including physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual wellness.
- Integrity Idea 058: Foster Financial Fitness (#236)
- It is about adopting practices and benefits that are specifically designed to encourage and support the financial literacy and fitness of employees and their families.
- Integrity Idea 059: Recognize “AvoDay” (Not labor Day) (#240)
- It is about using the U.S. national holiday of Labor Day as an opportunity to speak life into work by referencing the work-affirming word “Avodah” rather than the work-devaluing word “Labor”.
- Integrity Idea 060: Prioritize Employees (#241)
- It is about recognizing the importance of caring for employees for the right reasons.
- Integrity Idea 061: Choose the Better “T” of Trust (vs Track) (#242)
- It is about cultivating an organizational culture in which employees can be trusted and do not need to be tracked, which starts by trusting God rather than tracking employees.
- Integrity Idea 062: Cultivate Customer Kindness (#244)
- It is about implementing practices that create opportunities for customers to engage in acts of “kindness” toward employees and the community.
- Integrity Idea 063: Seek Vertical Counsel (#245)
- It is about a faithful leader praying, either privately or with a small group of other leaders in the organization, for wisdom and guidance in every decision.
- Integrity Idea 064: Seek Horizontal Counsel (#246)
- It is about a faithful leader actively seeking counsel from faithful advisors as well as from the people they lead.
- Integrity Idea 065: Strengthen Your Cord (#247)
- It is about joining groups or organizations that gather faithful leaders to support each other in pursuit of faith/work integration, in navigating faith/work integration in an increasingly secular culture or in protecting the religious freedom to pursue faithful integrity through business a better way through Biblical flourishing.
- Integrity Idea 066: Stop the Rot (#253)
- It is about putting in place practices and procedures to identify and address behavior by stakeholders that undermines the organization’s Re-Imagined Values and Re-Imagined Culture.
- Integrity Idea 067: Plant a Tree in 2025 (#257)
- It is about a faithful leader committing to make one change or take one initiative in their organization that “adds to the beauty” of the world.
- Integrity Idea 068: Develop a “Daniel Plan” for Decisions (#259)
- It is about putting in place practices to ensure that important decisions and responses to critical or sensitive situations are made with “prudence and discretion” by an organization’s leaders, following the example of Daniel when King Nebuchadnezzar ordered all of the wise men of Babylon to be destroyed.
- Integrity Idea 069: Share the Spoils (#261)
- It is about prayerfully considering compensation and recognition practices that recognize the contributions of all employees to the success of the organization.
- Integrity Idea 070: Set Some Ebenezers (#262)
- It is about the faithful leader of an organization following the example of Samuel and creating tangible reminders of times God has helped the organization and its people.
- Integrity Idea 071: Grow Gratitude (#263)
- It is about implementing practices to help employees experience feelings of gratitude.
- Integrity Idea 072: Seek “Moses Managers” (#265)
- It is about implementing promotion, recruiting, hiring, selection, and training practices for managers that prioritize the qualities Moses used when recruiting chiefs in Exodus 18:21-24.
- Integrity Idea 073: Be Quiet (#266)
- It is about a faithful leader of an organization setting aside quiet time each day to listen for God’s guidance in how to faithfully steward the organization in alignment with Biblical beliefs, principles and priorities.
- Integrity Idea 074: Implement Human AI (#268)
- It is about faith leaders undertaking an Appreciative Inquiry process in their organization in order to: improve employee engagement and promote Biblical flourishing; identify, evaluate and pursue more effectively its Re-Imagined Purpose, Re-Imagined Values and Re-Imagined Culture; grow gratitude; dismantle “silos” that are barriers to information and wisdom “flow”; and encourage Biblical EQ.
- Integrity Idea 075: Whisper, Just Don’t Hide (#269)
- It is about a faithful leader being willing to share and explain the faith that informs their leadership and inspires the bigger WHY of the organization, even if the leader has discerned that the organization’s pursuit of faithful integrity through business a better way toward Biblical flourishing is best done at the covert end of the Covert/Overt Continuums.
- Integrity Idea 076: Let There Be (Better) Light (#274)
- It is about enhancing the wellness of employees by taking steps to improve the quality of the light in which they work.
- Integrity Idea 077: Color Your World (with Intention) (#277)
- It is about enhancing the wellness of employees through the intentional use of color in their workspace.
- Integrity Idea 078: Don’t Settle for “Gold” (#278)
- It is about cultivating an organizational culture in which people are motivated and equipped to go beyond the Golden Rule in human interactions.
- Integrity Idea 079: Start a Bank (a “Leave Bank”) (#280)
- It is about creating a “leave bank” into which employees may deposit unused PTO (and the organization may make matching or supplemental deposits) either to be drawn by co-workers facing an emergency or disaster or donated to charity.
- Integrity Idea 080: Provide Praiseworthy Packaging (#289)
- It is about delivering your products and services in packaging that glorifies God.
- Integrity Idea 081: Shun Sorcery in Business (#291)
- It is about faithful leaders looking to prayer and the guidance of the Holy Spirit in making decisions, including hiring decisions, rather than turning to modern “sorcery”.
- Integrity Idea 082: Start a “Relevant” Bible Study (#294)
- It is about faithful leaders starting, facilitating or encouraging a Bible study that is intentional in helping employees understand the relevance of Scripture to their daily work.
- Integrity Idea 083: Nurture Nathans (#295)
- It is about a faithful leader identifying and empowering trusted friends and advisors who will speak truth to them–holding them accountable, pointing out blind spots, and raising issues–and also provide faithful counsel to help guide their leadership.
- Integrity Idea 084: Purge Profanity (#296)
- It is about implementing policies and practices that discourage employees from using vulgar, obscene, or profane language while working or representing the organization.
- Integrity Idea 085: Support the Supporters (#298)
- It is about implementing practices to support, care for, and recognize the employees who keep “stars” looking good, keep initiatives moving forward, and keep teams working together.
- Integrity Idea 086: Re-Align Loyalty (#299)
- It is about implementing practices to ensure that the overriding allegiance of leaders, managers and employees is to principles rather than people–toward the bigger WHY of the organization–and that the allegiance given to work commitments is properly understood in the context of other “life” commitments.
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PERSONAL NOTE (from PM): When I started this blog in January 2020, I still believed Integrous was not about new content. These 300 articles continue to be an act of obedience. Perhaps the biggest revelation in the past year has been recognizing the Safety/Surrender Gap.
ESSENCE: Over the last six years, we have been laying out and expanding on a model for moving toward what we call Integriosity®–leading with faithful integrity through business a better way toward Biblical flourishing. It is time to pause, take a breath and look back over the last 300 posts as we did after 100, 200 and 250. We hope this is a helpful roadmap for faithful leaders committed to living a life of faithful integrity–a way to look back, explore topics of particular interest, read those you may have missed, and re-read those that were convicting.
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