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DGT Episode 173 - St. Paul’s Leadership Legacy III - Part 2 Guardians Of Excellence

We all know that leaders are responsible for getting things done, leading their organizations to be productive, but sometimes we forget that leadership also sometimes has a softer side and that a leader is just as responsible for the moral climate of his organization as he is for its efficiency.  In St. Paul’s letter to Titus, Chapter 2, St. Paul outlines his vision for the leader as the guardian of excellence.  And what he wrote Titus then still holds true for us today.

DGT Episode 172 - St. Paul’s Leadership Legacy III - Part 1 Leaders Are God’s Stewards

One of the most intriguing figures in the New Testament is St. Paul.  Most commentators spend their lives speaking of Paul’s theology and his relationship with Christ.  But Paul was also a leader who left a legacy of leadership to his followers and one of his closest disciples was Titus.  In Paul’s letter to Titus we find the heart of a leader speaking to his leader about the task he has appointed him,  In Paul’s own words a leader is God’s steward.

DGT Episode 171 - The Just Leader - Six Practical Principles For Business Part 6

There are a lot of things in common between business leaders and mountain climbers.  In the same way that mountain climbers dare heights by precipitous paths, so the business leader needs to walk a fine line.  So many things need to be balanced at the moral level and inside of themselves in order to do what they do and do it at the service of Christ.  But there are principles to guide them.  One of these principles is that everything we do we do for others.  Our success means the success of everyone involved in the process. 

DGT Episode170 - A Business Should Make Money - Six Practical Principles For Business Part 5

In our work with the Catholic leader, one of the most sensitive subjects is whether or not they should make money.  For some reason making a profit in our business has been associated with guilt and corruption.  But is this association always accurate?  Is it okay for a Catholic business leader to actually make a profit?  And if they do make a profit what are they supposed to do with it?  How does Christ qualify our success and how does a profitable Christian business look different from those of the world?

DGT Episode 169 - Your Business Can Lead Leaders - Six Practical Principles For Business Part 4

All of us engaged in business know the scenario:  the people at the top have the answers, the people at the bottom have the wherewithal, the people at the top become frustrated that the people at the bottom don’t execute, and the people at the bottom become frustrated because the people at the top don’t listen.  How do we reverse this paradigm?  In 2011 the Catholic Church issued a document called, “The Vocation Of The Catholic Business Leader.”  It issued six principles to govern leadership in this environment.  The fourth principle, that of subsidiarity, tackles just this question.

DGT Episode 168 - Your Business At The Service Of Your Employees - Six Practical Principles For Business Part 3

The non-Christian world can paint a vision of capitalism wherein the owner or the boss rules over the workers – exacting from them the maximum of energies in the most efficient way possible for the maximum profit.  Is this the vision that God has for our work?  In its landmark document from 2011, the Catholic Church lays out six principles to guide business leaders.  Its third principle holds that business ought to be for the benefit of the employees as well as the customer.  Here’s how this can be done.

DGT Episode 167 - Your Business Helps The Poor - Six Practical Principles For Business Part 2

All of us are aware of the cliché that says that business somehow causes poverty or that capitalism and charity are opposed.  This however is challenged by the document that the Vatican released in 2011 called “The Vocation Of The Catholic Business Leader.”  This document issues six principles that are to guide every business leader in their vocation and its second principle says that businesses are there to help the poor.  How can this be done? 

DGT Episode 166 - Your Business Builds A Better World - Six Practical Principles For Business Part 1

In 2011 the Vatican issued a guide for Catholic business leaders called The Vocation Of The Business Leader.  This is an amazing document, because in 33 pages it summarizes the whole teaching of the Catholic Church about business but does so in a way that is helpful to the Catholic business leader to read in a short time.  I want to go through that document and study it’s six practical principles for business, because in a short form it gives us a real guide for our real lives. 

DGT Episode 165 - Jesus Is Faithful To The End - St. Paul‘s Leadership Legacy II Part 4

There are many ways to define the secrets of success but Christians have their own definition.  St. Paul lays it out clearly for us in his second letter to Timothy, chapter 4, where he speaks about the crown that is laid up for him in the Lord.  Through all of his life and his many ups and downs, St. Paul witnesses that Jesus is faithful and has carried him through all his adversities.  His words of hope help inspire us in our own journeys as leaders.

DGT Episode 164 - Endurance At The Top - St. Paul‘s Leadership Legacy II Part 3

St. Paul is surely one of the most famous leaders listed in the entire Bible.  His life reads like a passionate saga and is full of lessons for those of us, who being Christians, want to follow in his footsteps leading in our world.  That’s why his second letter to Timothy is so important.  It actually chronicles St. Paul’s final letter in the New Testament to one of his closest disciples.  Chapter 3 of this letter offers us wonderful insight into faith’s capacity to bring us endurance.