Today I was thinking a lot about what religious faith has to do with good management. In Christianity, faith in God means that we trust Him and not ourselves. When we succeed in our own strength, it's easy to continue trusting our own efforts to provide results. The problem, is that we are not trusting God.
In management, it's the same thing. Leading people requires that we trust them and their decisions. When we don't trust our employees, we find ourselves trusting our own efforts instead. When we look at the most successful organizational leaders we find that they train and empower their people. They allow those employees to make decisions and don't "micro manage" the results. In short, they lead them, they don't try to manage them.
True Christianity involves giving control to God and trusting Him to run things. Good leadership involves giving control to our employees and trusting them to provide results.
