Christian Business Insights: Recent Episodes
Dave Kahle
Providing 'out-of-the-box' views of Christian Businesses, designed to help you build a powerful business, expand your impact, and grow closer to God in the process.
The world is changing more rapidly than at any time in human history. It is easy to become set in your ways, especially when it comes to sales and marketing efforts. In this podcast, I look at some of the practices that were 'fine in the past' but are obsolete today.
Dave Kahle’s goal is to provide sales leaders and small businesspeople with practical actionable ideas that can make an immediate impact on your sales performance.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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Can you teach ethics to a new employee? That was a question I fielded from a manager in one of my seminars. You will be surprised at the answer.
Dave Kahle’s goal is to provide sales leaders and small businesspeople with practical actionable ideas that can make an immediate impact on your sales performance.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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The Good Book on Business
"Ten Commandments for the Ethical Salesperson"
Andee Hart is a successful entrepreneur with several rules for success. One of which is "Keep trying until you get it right!" Join me as we learn from her.
Dave Kahle’s goal is to provide sales leaders and small businesspeople with practical actionable ideas that can make an immediate impact on your sales performance.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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Successful professionals in any field share some of the same character traits.. One is the "propensity to take risks." We aren't talking skydiving here, but rather risks that expand our opportunities and enhance our skills. Join me as we dig into this issues.
Dave Kahle’s goal is to provide sales leaders and small businesspeople with practical actionable ideas that can make an immediate impact on your sales performance.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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We’ve all had the experience of something good seemingly drop on us out of the blue. But was it really out of the blue. Let’s dig deeper into this phenomena and gain some encouragement.
Dave Kahle’s goal is to provide sales leaders and small businesspeople with practical actionable ideas that can make an immediate impact on your sales performance.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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God was Right! That's the title of Mark Gerson's book. Mark is a entrepreneur and philanthropist who believes that every question about success is answered in the first five books of the Bible. Join me as we explore this with Mark. Gain some specific success principles for your career and your life.
Dave Kahle’s goal is to provide sales leaders and small businesspeople with practical actionable ideas that can make an immediate impact on your sales performance.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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The Good Book on Business
The Bible tells us to “do god works.” So, what exactly are good works? More specifically, is what we do for a living a ‘good work?” Do our careers and businesses count? Let’s dig into this. The answers may belief-changing for your career and/or your business.
Dave Kahle’s goal is to provide sales leaders and small businesspeople with practical actionable ideas that can make an immediate impact on your sales performance.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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How To Kreate Kahle’s Kalculation
The Good Book on Business
Chances are, if your business is at all successful, you are going to the issue of funding your business growth: a larger space, more computers, more sophisticated software, and more equipment. You’ll have to buy raw materials, build your inventory and hire additional people. You’ll need to invest in continual training and developing your people.
How do you do that? Here’s a look at some of the nuances of business debt and five options you may not have thought about.
Dave Kahle’s goal is to provide sales leaders and small businesspeople with practical actionable ideas that can make an immediate impact on your sales performance.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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The Good Book on Business
Financing Your Christian Business
In a world characterized by over whelming distractions and the constant temptation to a transactional view of sales, “getting important” can provide focus, purpose and incredible rewards for those who can execute. And, it embodies Christian Business Principles.
Dave Kahle’s goal is to provide sales leaders and small businesspeople with practical actionable ideas that can make an immediate impact on your sales performance.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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Every professional and field salesperson must deal with discouragement when something goes poorly. The challenge is to keep motivated, even in the face of adversity. Here’s a three-step process to help you.
Dave Kahle’s goal is to provide sales leaders and small businesspeople with practical actionable ideas that can make an immediate impact on your sales performance.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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Chances are, if your business is at all successful, you are going to be presented with the opportunity to borrow. At some point, you’ll need a larger space, more computers, more sophisticated software, and more equipment. You’ll have to buy raw materials, build your inventory and hire additional people.
Now, you are faced with the decision. Should you borrow? In this piece, I reflect on some of the negative consequences of business borrowing.
Dave Kahle’s goal is to provide sales leaders and small businesspeople with practical actionable ideas that can make an immediate impact on your sales performance.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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Financing Your Business
David Thomas is a Christian business person with a new Book: 10 Undisputable Principles for Prosperity.: Unlocking Biblical Principles for Success. Join me as we delve into the David's life and the wisdom in the book.
Dave Kahle’s goal is to provide sales leaders and small businesspeople with practical actionable ideas that can make an immediate impact on your sales performance.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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The Good Book on Business
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Almost all of the policies and procedures that dictate our day-to-day efforts are vestiges of years gone by. Unless we institute a discipline of regularly examining them, we’ll soon be rendered obsolete by the pace of change around us. That's one of the 25 most important lessons I've learned.
Dave Kahle’s goal is to provide sales leaders and small businesspeople with practical actionable ideas that can make an immediate impact on your sales performance.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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We are living in a time where things are changing around us at an unprecedented rate. To be able to survive and thrive in this environment, we need to implement some thoughtful strategies. The Bible proposes a solution. Let’s unpack it.
Dave Kahle’s goal is to provide sales leaders and small businesspeople with practical actionable ideas that can make an immediate impact on your sales performance.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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Every business person, professional and salesperson sooner or later experiences slow times. How we use them can make a lifetime of difference. Let's drill deeply into this with two proven strategies for utilizing slow times.
Dave Kahle’s goal is to provide sales leaders and small businesspeople with practical actionable ideas that can make an immediate impact on your sales performance.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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The Good Book on Business
Download Kahles Kalculation of Sales Productivity here.
It is not uncommon to have a misguided idea of ‘full time ministry.” The Bible is clear on the role of business in the kingdom and that Marketplace Christians have a special ministry in God’s plan. Let’s dig into this.
Dave Kahle’s goal is to provide sales leaders and small businesspeople with practical actionable ideas that can make an immediate impact on your sales performance.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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The Good Book on Business
Why is it so difficult to change our behavior? Why are managers and leaders frustrated in trying to help people do better and sell better? The stealth cause is an aspect of human nature that is rarely acknowledged and even more rarely overcome. Join me in drilling deeper into the issue and offering some solutions.
Dave Kahle’s goal is to provide sales leaders and small businesspeople with practical actionable ideas that can make an immediate impact on your sales performance.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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The Good Book on Business
From a worldly perspective, businesses are formed to provide for the economic security of the folks who own and work in that business. Since food and shelter are basic needs, a business, to be viable, must meet those needs. And it does that by providing goods and services for money. Money then becomes one of the keys to any business.
But that is just the beginning of the benefits that derive from a business run on the Biblical model.
Dave Kahle’s goal is to provide sales leaders and small businesspeople with practical actionable ideas that can make an immediate impact on your sales performance.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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Many businesspeople are confused about how to invest in developing themselves and their employees. In this podcast, I share some out-of-the-box thinking that can provide you with a strategy for development that will change the trajectory of your business.
Dave Kahle’s goal is to provide sales leaders and small businesspeople with practical actionable ideas that can make an immediate impact on your sales performance.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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Menta-Morphosis
Here’s a very commonly held, and incredibly bad Idea:
Real ministry is only done under the auspices of established religion.
This message—that real ministry is only done under the auspices of established religion -- is implicit on so many levels that it is almost impossible to be a churchgoer and not absorb this idea. Church buildings are often referred to as “God’s house;” pastors are often imbued with some special authority, and giving to the local church is held up as a prerequisite for the Christian life. All these together combine to send the message that “real ministry” is only done under the auspices of the established institution.
The problem with it is twofold: first, it is not biblical, and second, the impact of believing it is devastating.
Dave Kahle’s goal is to provide sales leaders and small businesspeople with practical actionable ideas that can make an immediate impact on your sales performance.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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Is the Institutional Church Really the Church?
The world is filled with marketplace Christians who are content with a shallow Christian presence in their business, afraid of the consequences of a more visible, deeper approach. But what if the benefits far outweighed any discomfort that might come from stepping out and more visibly embracing Christianity in the marketplace? What if that which we would gain so far outweighs our small sense of temporary discomfort that we would look back on it down the road a bit and reflect, “I should have done that years ago.”
In this podcast, I unpack the second of those responses by digging into the sense of divine purpose that comes with a more visible commitment to our relationship with Christ in the marketplace.
Dave Kahle’s goal is to provide sales leaders and small businesspeople with practical actionable ideas that can make an immediate impact on your sales performance.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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The world is filled with marketplace Christians who are content with a shallow Christian presence in their business, afraid of the consequences of a more visible, deeper visibility. What if that which we would gain so far outweighs our small sense of temporary discomfort that we would look back on it down the road a bit and reflect, “I should have done that years ago.” I recently asked the people who are members of my X-I Community to articulate one benefit to more closely aligning their business and their careers with God. Here's their number one benefit.
Dave Kahle’s goal is to provide sales leaders and small businesspeople with practical actionable ideas that can make an immediate impact on your sales performance.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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Very often, the reason we don’t meet our potential is less our lack of skills and more the internal hindrances that inhibit our performance. In this podcast, we uncover this truth, and help you apply it.
Dave Kahle’s goal is to provide sales leaders and small businesspeople with practical actionable ideas that can make an immediate impact on your sales performance.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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"What do people think about you when you are not there?"
That's Steve Miller's definition of personal branding. Join me in this interview as we dig into the details of how to create and enhance your personal brand.
Dave Kahle’s goal is to provide sales leaders and small businesspeople with practical actionable ideas that can make an immediate impact on your sales performance.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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The Good Book on Business
: A lot of Marketplace Christians struggle with manifesting their Christianity in the marketplace. In this post, I identify two common reasons, and offer solutions.
Dave Kahle’s goal is to provide sales leaders and small businesspeople with practical actionable ideas that can make an immediate impact on your sales performance.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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The Good Book on Business
There has never been a generation of businesspeople who have had to deal with the pace of change moving as rapidly as our generation. It truly is unprecedented. The rapidly increasing pace of change is the single biggest threat to our businesses and our careers – and our personal lives – that we will face for the balance of our lives.
Dave Kahle’s goal is to provide sales leaders and small businesspeople with practical actionable ideas that can make an immediate impact on your sales performance.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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The Good Book on Business
In this interview with Paul Graeve, The Data Coach, we explore how to use data to transform your business. Great practical insights for every one wanting to run an excellent business.
Dave Kahle’s goal is to provide sales leaders and small businesspeople with practical actionable ideas that can make an immediate impact on your sales performance.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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The Good Book on Business
Almost everyone has experienced an opportunity that looked enticing at the time. But God stepped in and prevented it. These can be incredibly frustrating experiences. We can’t help but wonder “Why?” In this post, I share some of those experiences from my life, and reflect on what I learned as a result.
Dave Kahle’s goal is to provide sales leaders and small businesspeople with practical actionable ideas that can make an immediate impact on your sales performance.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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The Sales Leader's Excellence & Influence Course
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When something needs fixing – a process, a person, a piece of hardware or software, -- we often seek to fix the problem and bring that thing back to where it was before we became aware of the problem. In other words, we seek to restore the previous status quo. But what if that isn’t the best idea? Join with me as we unpack this concept – one of the 25 most important lessons I’ve learned.
Dave Kahle’s goal is to provide sales leaders and small businesspeople with practical actionable ideas that can make an immediate impact on your sales performance.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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Involving family in the business is a Bible precedent that produces powerful positive benefits. While it might be more difficult in our high-tech world, a little bit of creativity may uncover lots of opportunities to bring the family into your business or career. Let’s unpack this.
Dave Kahle’s goal is to provide sales leaders and small businesspeople with practical actionable ideas that can make an immediate impact on your sales performance.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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The Good Book on Business
The recent election may have set the record for the amount of emotional reaction it has generated. As such, it presents an unusual opportunity for Christians to impact those in our spheres of influence.
Dave Kahle’s goal is to provide sales leaders and small businesspeople with practical actionable ideas that can make an immediate impact on your sales performance.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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The Good Book on Business
We often get so caught up in the details of a sale and quantity of transactions that we fail to regard the value of our customers. Sales is about people, not money. By putting an economic value to every customer it lifts them up in our radar screen and provides important information to help make decisions about sales and finances. In this article, I’ll show you how.
Dave Kahle’s goal is to provide sales leaders and small businesspeople with practical actionable ideas that can make an immediate impact on your sales performance.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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We have learned to immediately react to a problem by trying to fix it. But what if, in our rapidly changing world, fixing a problem isn’t the wisest reaction? Is there a better option? Let’s explore another possibility.
Dave Kahle’s goal is to provide sales leaders and small businesspeople with practical actionable ideas that can make an immediate impact on your sales performance.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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The Sales Leader's Excellence & Influence Course
Menta-Morphosis(r)
Almost every B2B sales organization has a Primary Sales Obstacle – one place in their sales efforts where some improvement will make a disproportionately large impact on sales. In this post, I describe the reasons why the obstacle exists, identify the most common obstacles for three different business models, and offer solutions to each.
Dave Kahle’s goal is to provide sales leaders and small businesspeople with practical actionable ideas that can make an immediate impact on your sales performance.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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The Sales Leader's Excellence & Influence Course
Very often, the reason we don’t meet our potential is less our lack of skills and more the internal hindrances that inhibit our performance. In this podcast, we uncover this truth, and help you apply it.
Dave Kahle’s goal is to provide sales leaders and small businesspeople with practical actionable ideas that can make an immediate impact on your sales performance.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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The Sales Leader's Excellence & Influence Course
Time management may be the biggest need in our frenzied culture. Yet, many people have a defective view of time management, limiting their effectiveness. In this podcast, we set that straight.
Dave Kahle’s goal is to provide sales leaders and small businesspeople with practical actionable ideas that can make an immediate impact on your sales performance.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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: In B2B sales, you always do better narrowing your focus than expanding it. Defy conventional wisdom and your own instincts and drill down into this – one of the 25 most important lessons I’ve learned in 30+ years of sales training and consulting.
Dave Kahle’s goal is to provide sales leaders and small businesspeople with practical actionable ideas that can make an immediate impact on your sales performance.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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It’s human nature to resist change. But, in our rapidly changing times, mindlessly grasping onto the status quo can lead to mediocrity. If we are going to survive and thrive in these times, we need to relentlessly examine our hold on the way things have been and consider better approaches.
Dave Kahle’s goal is to provide sales leaders and small businesspeople with practical actionable ideas that can make an immediate impact on your sales performance.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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The term ‘Kingdom business’ conjures up all kinds of ideas. Some imagine businesses that put gospel tracks with their invoices and checks. Others think of the original “business as mission” idea of businesses which are just really disguised mission efforts. Still others imagine the owners as overly pious people who are out of step with the real world. In this podcast , we offer a definition.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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Almost every Christian businessperson has a sense that there is potential in their businesses or professions to make a greater impact for the Kingdom. Unfortunately, the idea is often too vague and unformed in our minds, and therefore seems overwhelming. Here are three simple steps to begin to transform your business into a spiritual entity following the Biblical business model.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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For many Christian professionals and businesspeople, the prospect of practicing our faith in the marketplace is overwhelming. It’s easy to remain paralyzed in the face of so many things calling for our time and attention. In the face of overwhelming number of choices, most marketplace Christians default to what’s comfortable and familiar – which is to focus on worldly success in business and give up on having an impact for the Kingdom.
In order to break through this inertia, here are two little things you can do. These are small acts that get you started and moving on the right path. Check out these complemenatry posts:
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Can Your Business Become a Spiritual Juggernaut?
Want to Come to Know God? Start a Business.
Should We Compartmentalize Our Christianity?
Is it enough to be active in church and honest in business?
Dave Kahle’s goal is to provide sales leaders and small businesspeople with practical actionable ideas that can make an immediate impact on your sales performance.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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There is a certain power and attractiveness that accrues to those folks who take a stand and publicly express it. That’s called leadership, and the world is full of people looking for a leader. There is something compelling about a person who is committed to a cause that is bigger than just himself, who has the courage to declare that commitment not only for himself but on behalf of those in his sphere of influence, and to do so publicly for anyone who wants to hear it. The impact can be incalculable -- spreading across geographies and dripping down into several generations.
Our foundational documents – the Vision, Mission and Values statements we create for our businesses provide an ideal venue for expressing such a commitment.
Dave Kahle’s goal is to provide sales leaders and small businesspeople with practical actionable ideas that can make an immediate impact on your sales performance.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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Work—and by extension, business—is so important to God that he has created “works” for each of us to do, and he prepared them way in advance of our being ready to do them. Just as he gave Adam the task of naming the animals and then worked with him on that task, so he gives each of us tasks to do and works with us to do them. It is how he designed his creation to operate.
While we are familiar with the grand movements of God and the great stories that describe them, we have missed one of the underlying truths: that the primary way God works with man is through our labor and the businesses that emerge from it.
Dave Kahle’s goal is to provide sales leaders and small businesspeople with practical actionable ideas that can make an immediate impact on your sales performance.
Dave is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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There is a fine line between perseverance and self-delusion. Understanding that difference can make a huge difference in a life and a business. Here are some tips on making the distinction.
Dave Kahle is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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There is a lot of discussion these days about ‘spirituality.’ And with that discussion is a great deal of misinformation and wrong ideas. This podcast looks at the whole notion of spirituality and presents an alternative way of working on your spirituality.
Dave Kahle is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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Review my answer to this question: Here’s something that I struggle with almost daily. I’m definitely known for having very high expectations that aren’t so easy to meet. I wondered if you could elaborate on what strategies you have seen succeed regarding this, because while I’m sure open to changing my attitude, I’m not thrilled with lowering my expectations. I’m overly driven...and not far from driven crazy!
Dave Kahle is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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Some recent surveys have indicated that the population of Christians in this country has gone from the majority to a size approaching a remnant. It’s time for everyday Christians to break out of their reliance on the failed institutional church system and exert leadership in their lives.
Dave Kahle is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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Over my career as a sales expert, I’ve personally and contractually worked with over 500 sales organizations. I’ve learned some things. Here’s one: Very few chief sales officers have a good handle on the economics of the sales force. And very few entrepreneurs think about the economics of a sales system.
Almost everyone can tell you what the amounts of the various categories on a P&L statement indicate. So, sales salaries, expenses, advertising costs, etc. are readily at hand. However, very few decision makers dig deeper. And that means that significant information is never uncovered, and decisions are made on the basis of superficial, and often flawed, information. Let’s dig deeper.
Dave Kahle is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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Almost every Christian business owner, salesperson and executive has a firm grasp on the idea of stewardship – that everything in this world including our businesses, belongs to God, and we are just temporary stewards of it.
“Everything,” of course, means everything – our families, our gifts and abilities, the position or job that we hold, the influence that we have, the people in our lives – just to name a few.
Once we understand that, we are just naturally led to this question: If that’s the case, am I making everything of this business (or my career) that God wants? What exactly does stewardship mean? Is there a greater good, a bigger impact for His kingdom that I’m not seeing, or not yet realizing?
Dave Kahle is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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There is little in creation that is more important to God than our words. In this piece, we look at what God has to say about our words, and develop some criteria to help us do better using words n the marketplace.
Dave Kahle is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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Probably the most common sales process in the B2B world is ‘creating a client”. That’s my terminology for influencing a customer to buy routinely and repeatedly from you. Every organization and every salesperson can do it better. Here’s some insights on how to.
Dave Kahle is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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With all the worldly pressure to achieve the world’s definition of success, we sometimes forget that excellence in your career and your business can lead to powerful influence for the Kingdom. Let’s drill down into this.
Dave Kahle is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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Sometimes life, and business, really sucks. Things are not going well with your family, and nothing seems to go right at work. You feel like a failure. You are discouraged, frustrated and wanting to just give up. Alas, you are not the only one. Others have experienced the same thing and have learned some lessons to help you through it.
Dave Kahle is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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For 30 years I’ve been training B2B sales forces to sell better. I ‘ve learned some things. This is one of the 25 most important lessons’ I’ve learned – that you can choose your thoughts, and thus control your attitudes, your behavior and your destiny. Romans 12:2 can make all the difference in your business and your career.
Dave Kahle is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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It seems that almost everyone wants to jump to a conclusion based on a 20-second sound bite solution, instead of taking the more time-consuming but more accurate process-oriented path. The consequences are huge, and most people have never considered them. That’s one of the 25 most important lessons I’ve learned.
Dave Kahle is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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For Christian professionals, entrepreneurs and business executives, living one’s Christianity in the marketplace is a constant challenge. One of the problems is that there isn’t a readily available set of guidelines. What does it look like to run a Christian business or profession?
To fill that need, I’ve put together this set of specific business practices which are common among Kingdom businesses.
Dave Kahle is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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How often have you gained a good idea, decided to implement it, but failed to put it into action? Our inability to convert ideas into action is a universal part of human nature. But if you could, you’d supercharge your personal and professional growth, become more confident and competent, and be more successful and fulfilled. Let’s dig into this issue.
Dave Kahle is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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“I’m spending more and more time dealing with information. It’s squeezing out my productive time.”
Welcome to the information age. You are not unique. This problem of information inundation is a relatively new but almost universal threat to your livelihood. Four or five years ago, professionals were not too concerned with it. Today, it can make or break your career. Let’s unpack this together.
Dave Kahle is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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This must be one of the saddest of all situations; You have a business or a career that God has great plans for, but they are never realized because you limited God’s involvement in them. You end your career with just a fraction of the impact you could have had. Let’s dig into preventing this.
Dave Kahle is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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Almost everyone associates ‘church’ with the institutional church system –that conglomerate of church buildings, pastors, denominations, worship service, that is ubiquitous ink Western society. But is that what Christ created? Join with me as I tell my story.
Dave Kahle is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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One of the mistaken ideas about Christian business is that it should focus on preaching the Gospel. Many Christians are hesitant to think of their businesses as Kingdom entities because they fear they will be expected to preach. In this article, we dig into that idea.
Dave Kahle is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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Thinking about your spirituality? Wondering if there is something deeper and more meaningful for your life? You’re not alone. Millions of people feel an emptiness and recognize it as a lack of spiritual growth on their part. And so, they search for something spiritual to fill that void. Unfortunately, many are searching in the wrong place, their energies being diffused by an errant understanding of spirituality.
Dave Kahle is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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As a young man, I made a career decision that was to impact the rest of my life. Reflecting back on it, I see a number of reasons why the choice of business impacted my character and my destiny. So it is with everyone. Business produces character traits that are fundamental in society and necessary to live a full and successful life. Let’s drill deeper into this.
Dave Kahle is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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Sometimes God directs you to leave a comfortable situation, with no alternative in place. It's part of the way He works with His people.
Dave Kahle is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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We are all subject to sub-conscious attitudes and habits of thought. These habits can impact our lives in multiple ways. If we were to identify and examine our habits of thought, we can improve our lives.
Dave Kahle is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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Recently, one of my clients recommended that I compile a series of posts on the most important lessons I’ve learned over my 30-year career as a consultant working with over 500 different organizations. This is one of them: Most people would rather believe a comfortable lie than accept an uncomfortable truth.
Dave Kahle is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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The world is full of advice for businesspeople. If you are a Christian, the challenge is to sort it out – to discard the superficial and worldly while grabbing onto that which will make a difference. Here’s one person’s opinion as to the three essential paths for a Christian businessperson.
Dave Kahle is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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: Sooner or later, every Christian experiences a painful event that leads them to ask: Why do bad things happen to good people? It’s one of the most difficult questions that people ask. In this post, we dig deeply into this, and provide direction for people asking that question.
Dave Kahle is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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The pace of change has increased, the growth in complexity has multiplied, and information has proliferated at an unprecedented pace. We are in extraordinary times. We often find ourselves overwhelmed, distracted and insecure. And unprecedented times call for unique and disciplined approaches if we are to survive and thrive.
The only sure way to deal with this pace of change is to nurture the skill of changing ourselves as rapidly as the world is changing around us. And that makes learning the ultimate success skill for our generation.
Dave Kahle is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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There are a number of ideas that are bantered around so much within our Christian culture that people assume they are unquestioned truth, when they are anything but that. Here’s one such idea: Spiritual leaders must be seminary-trained pastors.
That idea is non-Biblical, serves to hinder the growth of the Kingdom, and discourages thousands of Christians who would otherwise take on leadership roles. Let’s unpack this.
Dave Kahle is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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"If you want to become closer to God and build your faith, start a business." Business had a far greater role in the Old Testament then you have been lead to believe. Let's look at two Old Testament characters, and see what business meant to them.
Dave Kahle is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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Good time management recognizes the universal temptation to do more and become ‘too busy. Unfortunately, to continue to try to do “more” is a frustrating strategy that eventually causes great pain: strained relationships, health problems, a sense of helplessness, less effective work, and, in some cases, emotional and physical burnout.
Dave Kahle is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking, and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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We all know that the country is more divided than at any time in recent memory. It seems like the shared values that have defined the America that used to be a light to the world are no longer in play. How did we get here? More importantly, how do we get out of it? How do we adjust our careers and our businesses to survive and thrive in this muddle? Here’s one person’s opinion.
Dave Kahle is a B2B sales expert and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking, and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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Every Christian understands that there are certain fundamentals of the Christian faith, and that ‘giving’ is one of them.
And while we have all heard lots of sermons about the need to give, and give generously, very few of us have heard any Biblical teaching on an important aspect of that giving – “To whom should we give?” And “How should we give it?” We’re looking more closely at those questions.
Dave Kahle is a B2B sales expert and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking, and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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Passages Mentioned in this podcast: Malachi 3:10; 1 Cor. 9:1-14; II Corinthians 8 & 9: Psalm 112:9; I Timothy 5:17 – 18; Galatians 6:6-7; Romans 15:25-28; James 1:27; I Corinthians 16:1 & 2.
One of Christianity’s greatest failures has been the separation of the church from the world of business and commerce – acting on the premise that there are some things which are secular, and others which are sacred. Christian companies and their owners and executives must share some of the blame, as they have been comfortable following the worldly approach to business. As a result, countless millions of people around the world and across generations have never known the touch of God’s love expressed through a relationship with a Christian company.
Dave Kahle is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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Motivation is one of the least understood concepts in the business world. If you want to achieve any degree of success in your career, you can and should motivate yourself. One necessary pre-curser is the MORE mindset. Here’s a first step in a process that will impact the rest of your life.
Dave Kahle is a B2B sales expert and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
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Most Christians are woefully misinformed when it comes to understanding the role of business people in the Kingdom. They often have misconceptions about what is expected from a Christian in business. As a result, they compartmentalize business from their Christianity, and rob themselves and those around them of a more fulfilled life.
Dave Kahle is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
Should Your Christian Business be Excellent?
How to Give -- According to Scripture
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Just as there are spiritual disciplines for individuals, so are there spiritual disciplines for Christian businesses. For many people this is a radical thought. In this article we look at that idea.
If you have a say in a Christian business, this concept is for you.
Dave Kahle is a B2B sales Guru and Christian business thought leader. He’s authored 13 books and presented in 47 states and 11 countries. He has a reputation for presenting concepts, principles and practices that are out-of-the-box, and prompt you to think in ways you may not have done before.
His 10 – 20-minute podcasts will stimulate to greater levels of excellence and influence.
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The world is full of advice for businesspeople. If you are a Christian, the challenge is to sort it out – to discard the superficial and worldly while grabbing onto that which will make a difference. In this podcast, I share three essential paths that will keep you focused on the right things Striving for these will keep you on track, harnessing your power to continuously stimulate your efforts in a way that will eventually bring you to the best that you can be.
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Dave Kahle is a B2B sales expert, and a Christian Business thought leader. He has authored 13 books, presented in 47 states and 11 countries and worked with over 500 sales organizations. In these ten-minute podcasts, his unique blend of out-of-the-box thinking and practical insights will challenge and enable you to sell better, lead better and live better.
We are all too often incredibly busy – but with the wrong things. Activity becomes addictive and we become automatons, forever pursuing the satisfaction of accomplishment but rarely assessing the value of that accomplishment. We do it because it’s there, not because we have decided to do it. Intentionality suffers as activity prospers.
We run the risk of living a busy life, but being busy with the wrong things. What if all these things we’re busy with really weren’t worth it? And we never saw it?
Here are four ways to avoid this waste of time.
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Does God really care for me? How do I know? Those are two questions that Christians often ask. One way to answer them is to reflect on the occasions when God has intervened in our lives… protection and provision. I recently had an occasion to share a series of events in my life that I have labeled as ‘traveling mercies.’ In this podcast, I’m sharing that series of Godly interventions in my life, all having to do with travel. Enjoy.
The 2020's are without a doubt one of the most turbulent times American businesspeople have ever seen. That means that it is likely that the conclusions, paradigms and core beliefs upon which we based our decisions as recently as two years ago are likely to be obsolete today. One solution to keeping up with changing times is an executive roundtable.
CBIG groups
Frustrated with your business? Lots of problems in your career? Does it sometimes seem like almost everything is going wrong? The cause may be spiritual warfare in your business. It comes with the territory of being an effective Christian in the marketplace.
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The Edelman Trust Barometer just released it’s 2023 report. Based on interviews with 32,000 people across 28 countries, it found that people trusted business more than the media, government and NGOs. The report on this phenomenon may nudge some Christian businesspeople, who previously had been hesitant to express their faith in the marketplace to finally step up and begin to see their careers and businesses as ministries. Here’s why and how.
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One of the watershed moments in the life and growth of a business occurs when the executives design and implement a system of measurements. This signals the development of the business from an entrepreneurial effort to a serious organization that can exist outside of the hands-on involvement of the entrepreneur. In this piece, we unpack that idea.
Read these blog posts on goal setting: Creating Long-Term Goals, A fresh, nuanced approach to goal-setting: Introducing FOFS
Over my career as a sales expert, I’ve personally and contractually worked with over 500 sales organizations. I’ve learned some things. Here’s one: Very few chief sales officers have a good handle on the economics of the sales force. And very few entrepreneurs think about the economics of a sales system.
Almost everyone can tell you what the amounts of the various categories on a P&L statement indicate. So, sales salaries, expenses, advertising costs, etc. are readily at hand. However, very few decision makers dig deeper. And that means that significant information is never uncovered, and decisions are made on the basis of superficial, and often flawed, information. Let’s dig deeper.
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Sales is a profession that is ripe with temptation. Salespeople deal with a lot of people, and a lot of money. Either one of those by itself presents a challenge. Add them together and it can be overwhelming. Here are some guidelines to help you stay on the right side.
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The recent proliferation of AI (Artificial Intelligence) has surfaced a lingering issue: If we can create software to increase the capabilities of a computer, can we not create software to increase the capabilities of the greatest computer we know of – our minds? Let’s drill deeply into this.
Sooner or later, every sincere Christian wrestles with the question of how you make a sound Christian decision.. We all face turning points in our lives and need to make good decisions. In this podcast, I sort it out and offer several options.
Sooner or later, every sincere Christian wrestles with the question of how you make a sound Christian decision.. We all face turning points in our lives and need to make good decisions. In this post, I sort it out and offer several options.
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As an educated and experienced practitioner in the profession of helping people change their behavior, I’ve come to the conclusion that our set of preexisting beliefs supplies the largest and most potent set of obstacles to self-improvement and the greater success and fulfillment that comes with it.
Human beings naturally make observations and conclusions about our experiences as we grow up and experience life. Eventually, some of these become hardened into beliefs. These beliefs than form our base set of assumptions about the world, and we make choices and live our lives based on those beliefs.
Inappropriate or errant beliefs can hold us back.
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Too many Christian business people look outside their careers and their businesses for a place or a work that allows them to be significant. This search for something outside of themselves keeps them focused in the wrong place. The real source of significance is much closer to home.
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Building a successful business requires serious focus on four fundamental components. Those include the three elements of infrastructure: Systems, people and money, and the glue that ties those three together and empowers them to reach their potential: corporate culture. Creating a positive corporate culture is a process, not an event. Here are three essential keys.
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Throughout the Bible, the people of God who were business people were invariably excellent at their business. Yet, much of our contemporary Christian culture expects mediocrity from Christian organizations. Should a Christian business strive for excellence, and, if so, what does that look like?
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Most Christian business people are woefully ignorant of the impact their businesses can have for the Kingdom. God designed business to be a powerful force in the Kingdom. A Christian business is a powerful ministry. Let's dig into the details of this idea.
The Good Book on Business
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There is a pattern for the practices and principles consistently evidenced by Biblical business leaders. Leadership in the Bible often included creating an intense business culture. The right culture binds people together, stimulates them to be the best they can be, and prods the organization to excellence.
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Christian-owned businesses have a huge potential to impact their communities. But, ‘business as usual’ will not help you realize that potential. In order to nudge your business in the direction of becoming a Kingdom business, you’ll need to build these three practices into your business routines.
Free Biblical Business Assessment.
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The Good Book on Business
Holy Spirit resources:
https://www.bennyhinn.org/relationship-with-the-holy-spirit/
https://www.charismamag.com/blogs/straight-talk/25322-how-to-develop-your-relationship-with-the-holy-spirit
https://www.hungrygen.com/relationshipwithholyspirit/
If you want to improve the productivity of your organization, and particularly your sales team, focus first on the structure. When you change the structure, you change the behavior of the people who operate within that structure. Let me explain
In order for an individual or a society to reach its potential, it must continuously grow and develop. That requires consistent, methodical exposure to new ideas. Unfortunately, many people have arrested their development by remaining within their status quos.
It’s more and more popular to blame other people, or some ‘ism’ for your own circumstances. As long as we claim to be a victim we’ll never achieve our potential. As soon as we accept personal responsibility for our own circumstances, we gain the freedom to change them.
Whether you are a small businessperson or a professional salesperson, you can utilize a powerful strategy to take your performance to dramatically higher levels -- leverage. Leverage revolves around the idea of multiplying the effects of some effort to gain more value from it. Leverage will take you to a higher level.
Literally millions of people have been exposed to Christ through our institutional churches. The problem is that what happens there so turns them off that they are lost to Christianity for the rest of their lives. They equate church with Christianity, and find church to be disagreeable, and so reject Christ.
It’s like we are vaccinating them from ever considering Christ again. A vaccination is made from dead and powerless organisms, that, when injected into our body prevent us from contacting the real thing. That’s exactly what we are doing to the lost around us. We bring them into our churches, and it turns them off. They equate church with Christianity, and then become immune to the real power of Christ.
: The consequences of losing the daily battles to the “evil spiritual forces in the heavenly realm” are larger than most of us consider. Let’s look at the impact of spiritual warfare on our businesses, our lives and our careers.
Western business culture is built on fundamental Biblical principles. You do not need to be a Christian to build them into your business or career and achieve greater success and influence. Let’s look at once such principle.
How do you effectively and consistently grow your business? One common mistake is to pursue a strategy I call popcorn, instead of building a solid sales system. See if this describes you.
: In recent years I’ve seen a deeper degradation in the learning potential of the work force fueled by a growing inability to concentrate. I’m afraid that much of the adult population in this country has become so conditioned to sound bites, texts and tweets that they have lost the discipline to “do the work.” Like an unused muscle, their ability to concentrate has atrophied. On the one hand, that is alarming. On the other hand, it is a tremendous opportunity for you.
Can our businesses and careers be subject to attack by the ‘spiritual forces of evil’? And, if so, what does that look like? Can some or much of the obstacles in your path be intentionally implanted by the “spiritual forces of evil”? Let’s dig into this together.
What is it that empowers some people to change smoothly and effortlessly, while getting others to modify their behavior seems like moving a mountain? What is the fundamental building block for individuals which, more than anything else, equips them to successfully implement change?
It is something that is becoming increasingly rare -- a motivating sense of personal responsibility.
“How much should I expect God to do, and how much should I do?” I just fielded that question from one of my CBIG members. It wasn’t the first time I’d heard that question, and I have asked it myself dozens of times. I believe it is one of the most asked questions by Christian businesspeople. Let’s dig into it.
Every now and then, almost every professional runs into a situation where he/she is expected to do something that violates their conscience – something unethical. How do you handle that?
For much of my Christian life, I've struggled with a difficult and painful image of myself: I was a second-class Christian. No one ever said that to me in so many words, but the practices of the Christian community made it perfectly clear. Let's take a look at thst idea.
We all have a sense that things are changing rapidly these days. It is more serious than that. We have entered into the Age of Turmoil and our ability to recognize and navigate it will be the single biggest challenge for the rest of our careers.
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Many of us driven by the same motivation – to make a difference. Yet very few of us actually achieve it. Maybe something is missing.
There are, in the world of sales and sales systems, certain practices that have such an enormous impact on the company and the market that they are in a special class of activities that call for executive involvement at the highest levels.
One of that handful of activities is the creation of a value-added position (VAP). It often forms the first impression the market forms of your company, and reaches internally to pressure you to be who you say you are.
Do you attempt to add Christian business principles to your career/business? That’s a great start. The next step is to move from principles to practices. Let’s look at the why and how’s of that.
Partial list of Christian Business Practices
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Adhere to certain Biblical principles, whether or not you know they are Biblical, and your career will blossom, and your business will reach more of it’s potential. You don’t need to be a Bible student to discover the principles upon which you can build a successful career, you just need to study the best practices of the best in your business and the two will coincide. In this podcast, I unpack the Biblical principle of integrity.
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Every sensitive business executive faces the conflict between the betterment of the organization, and the responsibility for the care of the people. Success lies in successful navigating the intersection of those two competing responsibilities.
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Christians are expected to be generous to the poor and needy. But, is that responsibility to help the poor and needy confined to individuals? Does a Christian business have a responsibility to help the poor and needy, separate and apart from that of the individuals who own, run, or work in the business?
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What can Christian businesspeople learn from Jalen Hurts, Patrick Mahomes, Brock Purdy, and Dan Orlovsky? Each of these men are living examples of striving to achieve excellence in the job and publicly and fearlessly proclaiming their faith in God in the public arena. Let’s look at what we can learn from them.
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God uses our businesses as devices to nudge us closer to Him and to build the attitudes and practices that enable our next step up the spiritual growth continuum.
Check out The Good Book on Business. https://www.davekahle.com/wordpressblogs/good-book-business/.
Too many Christians hide their faith in the marketplace. One of the reasons is the unfounded, yet common belief that you’ll offend people if you voice your Christianity. Let’s explore belief together.
The XI Community for Christian Business People. Learn more here: https://www.davekahle.com/christian-business-people/.
The majority of Christian businesspeople see their Christianity as being defined by their activity in their local institutional church, and not really impacting their business lives. Is that correct? Or, is there potentially more?
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The Good Book on Business
Resources for Christian Businesspeople
Our contemporary Western Christian Culture has so thoroughly occupied our beliefs that we can’t even conceive of asking some really obvious questions. Here are three questions that you probably have never thought about, but that could impact your Christianity.
We’ve all seen the news coverage on the restaurant in Virginia who cancelled a banquet reservation by a Christian group because the employees didn’t “feel safe.” Let’s think a little bit deeper about it.
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Since the dawn of mankind, God has used business as a means of developing faith and bring people closer to Him. A Christian business is one of His most powerful tools to develop faith. Grabbing onto that truth can change everything.
The Christian Business Group in the XI Community. Learn More Here. https://www.davekahle.com/christian-business-people/
Why is it that organizations lead by 'servant leaders' achieve twice the return on investment compared to other organizations? I interview author Max Cates on the nuts and bolts of servant leadership.
Serve, Lead, Succeed -- Book by Max Cates
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A Christian business is not just a money-making endeavor. A Christian career is more than just a job. Both have a higher calling. One part of that calling is to be a venue to unleash creativity in business. Taking on that mindset can change how you do everything.
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We are all familiar with the Damar Hamlin incident. While it was unfolding, Dan Orlovsky, a former quarterback and current analyst for ESPN, led a spontaneous prayer on national TV. That has sparked what is probably a temporary encouragement of prayer among the NFL media. And that has huge implications for Christian businesses people.
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Work/family balance is a conflict that causes stress for every Christian business person. When we look at what the Bible has to say about it, the insights may surprise you.
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One of the characteristics that distinguish a Biblical business from its competitors is the degree to which the executives of Biblical businesses embed prayer into the fabric of the business.
Decades ago, I almost lost my first professional sales position because of my Christian faith. "Being a Christian sales person is going to be tricky," I concluded. While that may have been true in my young and immature mindset, over the years, I've come to see that not only is there a Christian approach to sales but that in many ways it sets the standard for the best practices of the secular community.
As employers, we’re torn between wanting a good employee to stay forever, and celebrating his/her growth when they leave. It’s an example of the age-old conflict between stewardship and shepherding. What’s the ideal position to hold?
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Great business leaders require a certain set of character traits to unleash the potential of the enterprises they lead. In this series of seven posts, I articulate my view of the seven character traits essential for great business leaders. In this post, I describe the trait that energizes and ignites all the others – courage.
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In this sixth of a series on the character traits of great business leaders, I identify one that might be surprising, yet is incredibly powerful – humility. Humility is often misunderstood. In this podcast, I describe it, and show how it is a powerful leadership trait.
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Successful business leaders exhibit many of the same character traits. Here’s number five in the series describing the top character traits of great business leaders – integrity. It is both good morals as well as good business. See how you measure up.
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The best business leaders have acquired a similar set of skills. Without this set of character traits, it is difficult to lead a growing organization. In this series, I uncover a key set of character traits for great business leaders. This is number four – Unwavering self-control.
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Great leaders have a number of character traits in common. This is the third in a series of podcasts dealing with the set of character traits that great business leaders exhibit – A continuous quest for MORE. Let's unpack this together.
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Great business leaders invariably exhibit the same qualities of character. In this first of series, I look at the qualities of character that mark great leaders, with a deep dive into the first: An unshakeable work ethic. Let’s unpack that.
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More important than the business model in the long-term success of a business is the character of the CEO. In this series, I describe the top qualities of character that mark the successful business leaders. This is number two – the ability and propensity to learn.
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Which is more important, the business model, or the character of the CEO? From my experience, the character of the CEO trumps everything. In this article/podcast, I dig deeply into that idea – the ultimate success formula.
The Xcellence & Influence Community
I was young, cocky and a bit full of myself when I had one of the most humbling experiences of my life, and learned a lesson that has stuck with me for decades. Personal responsibility is easy to say, but quite a bit more difficult to actually embed into your life.
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At some point in their career, most Christian businesspeople ask: Am I making everything of this business (or my career) that God wants? What exactly does stewardship mean? Is there a greater good, a bigger impact for His kingdom that I’m not seeing, or not yet realizing? In this podcast, we answer those questions.
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At some point in their career, most Christian businesspeople ask: Am I making everything of this business (or my career) that God wants? What exactly does stewardship mean? Is there a greater good, a bigger impact for His kingdom that I’m not seeing, or not yet realizing? In this podcast, we answer those questions.
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Self-delusion is becoming more widespread today and threatens to damage our lives and retard our culture. It’s time we recognized it.
Courage is one of those things rarely discussed in business circles. Yet, it is required for a successful Christian business.
The Xi Community: https://www.davekahle.com/leadership-and-b2b-sales-management-groups/
“Our business should make money so that we can give it away” – that’s the message our contemporary culture teaches us. Those of us who look for a higher purpose for our business find that message easy to accept.
Could it be that this is one of those paradigms that feel good and seem reasonable – but that, beneath the glossy surface, are actually detrimental, hindering our growth, thwarting the growth of the Kingdom and inflicting more damage than good?
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Is the purpose of your business to just to make money? Is this accurate? Or, is it a false belief that hinders your business success?
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How do we become better, more fully developed people -- people who operate close to the peak of their potential? How do we translate that into more successful businesses? And how do we help others do the same?
One way is to eliminate those beliefs that hold us back. For lack of a better term, let’s call these things negative paradigms. One key to building successful lives and businesses is to intentionally remove the paradigms that hinder our growth.
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: “Is there one business model that you would recommend to a budding entrepreneur?”
That was the question a young man asked me recently. I reflected for a moment over the past 25 years, and answered this way:“No. I’ve worked with over 500 businesses, and in that pack, there were lots of different business models. What I’ve seen is that the model is less important than the implementation on the part of the company’s leadership.”
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Let's examine a couple more of that series of words that a significant percentage of the population would rather not hear – commitment and humility.
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Throughout the history of mankind, successful people have been disciplined people. At some point in their development, they have discovered the power that lies in discipline. And they chose, with an act of willfulness and intentionality, to pursue disciplines. As a result, they accomplish, they achieve, and they improve. They rise above the pack on the basis of the strength of their wills and their ability to discipline themselves to do the right things, consistently, methodically and regularly.
Sales Leaders Course
Higher character has been recognized, across generations and cultures, as one of the ideal qualifications for positions of leadership. Until recently. We’ve discarded the idea of higher character, and are paying the price.
The Sales Leader's Excellence & Influence Course.
In modern Western Christianity, we have a number of words that are so commonly used that the ideas they convey have become part of our culture, are rarely questioned, and, as a result, have changed our behavior in ways that are detrimental to our spiritual growth and the growth of the Kingdom. On top of that, they are non-biblical!
This is the first of a series on words that should be banned from Christianity. Here’s the first: “Ministry.”
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We’ve lost the culture. What was, two generations ago, a culture that could be described as predominantly Christian, has become predominantly anti-Christian. Let’s look a little closer.
Is The Institutional Church Really the Church? Learn More Here.
Our perspectives shape our behavior and set our character. We can change our perspectives and thereby change our lives.
The Sales Leader's Excellence & Influence Course.
We are all familiar with the Pareto principle, which, when applied to the world of sales, says that 80% of the business comes from 20% of the customers. As a general rule, whenever there is a large group producing something, 20% of that group produce 80% of the results.
Likewise, the “Five Percent Principle” states that five percent of the people produce 50% of the outcome. Applying that can be transformational for your business or career.
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I’m afraid for the future of our country. I’m afraid because I believe that the discipline of thinking before we act – in every circumstance and level of society -- is rapidly disappearing. In its place, we are witnessing a whole host of alternatives. It is like thousands of years of human development has been shrugged to the side, and a new ethic of rushing to conclusions with little objective basis has replaced it. We are regressing to the Middle Ages.
In my 30 years of practice, I’ve interacted with thousands of executives and owners, and engaged with tens of thousands of B2B salespeople. The overwhelming majority have been lulled by moderate success to a place where they are hesitant to pursue excellence, weary of reaching for their potential, tentative about embracing any new ideas and afraid of stretching beyond today’s comfort zones.
That’s one of the main reasons why only five to twenty percent of businesses and salespeople ever reach their potential. The rest got waylaid by moderate success.
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The recent Disney debacle holds a lesson for Christian business people. Let’s look past the message to the actions which gave rise to it.
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There are millions of Christians and seekers in the marketplace who are hesitant to step out and express their faith. All many of them need is for someone to go first.
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Bible Stories with Gramps
If you want to take your business up a notch in terms of the power and sophistication of your sales system, you'll need to address sales productivity. The podcast is the first step.
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There are certain culturally supported beliefs that are widespread throughout the modern institutional church. It doesn’t matter what the particular flavor of the church is, its denominational affiliation, or its position on the charismatic/conservative spectrum. Regardless of these differences, almost every congregation holds these beliefs and adheres to these practices.
Not only are these practices pervasive, they’re also so deeply held that virtually no one questions them. The problem is that they have devastating spiritual consequences. Let's look at the belief that church is about teaching and worship.
There are certain culturally supported beliefs that are widespread throughout the modern institutional church. It doesn’t matter what the particular flavor of the church is, its denominational affiliation, or its position on the charismatic/conservative spectrum. Regardless of these differences, almost every congregation holds these beliefs and adheres to these practices.
Not only are these practices pervasive, they’re also so deeply held that virtually no one questions them. The problem is that they have devastating spiritual consequences. Let's look at the idea that your congregation must grow.
There are certain culturally supported beliefs that are widespread throughout the modern institutional church. It doesn’t matter what the particular flavor of the church is, its denominational affiliation, or its position on the charismatic/conservative spectrum. Regardless of these differences, almost every congregation holds these beliefs and adheres to these practices.
Not only are these practices pervasive, they’re also so deeply held that virtually no one questions them. The problem is that they have devastating spiritual consequences.
There is something incredibly compelling about being a part of an organization that aspires to something larger and more noble than others of their ilk. Something in the soul of human beings longs to be a part of something that not only strives for a better future but works to enhance the present.
A well-written manifesto taps into that power. It claims the best for its adherents and attracts the best people to it. Dig into this with me.
The Significant Business Manifesto
The Significant Christian Business Manifesto
The Christian Salesperson’s Manifesto.
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When budgets are limited, the single most effective use of training money is not on the salespeople, but rather the sales managers. Let’s dig into this.
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One of the biggest obstacles to the growth and development of a salesperson -- or anyone else – is not their lack of skills and experience, but rather the internal obstacles that hinder their actions. Dig into what holds you back, so that you can break free.
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One of the most powerful strategies for B2B sales organizations is to focus on developing and nurturing a handful of ‘partners.’ These are customers who are so committed to you that they form the foundation of your revenue. Dig into the whys and hows of creating partners in this article.
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In the earliest days of creation, God created work. The first thing He did with Adam was to give him a job. First, a lifetime purpose and then a specific task that contributes to that purpose. Then within the context of that job, God worked with Adam, spoke to him, related to him, and worked together with him.
In other words, God created work—and by extension, business—as the venue in which God would speak with man, relate to man, and work with man. That hasn’t changed.
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While there is a degree of significance to be achieved though one’s family, my focus in this article is on a higher level of significance. Having “notable worth or influence” implies that significance of that level is relatively rare. People take note of it.
Suppose you could lay a foundation of significance with your family, and then reached out to ‘matter” to a larger world. Suppose you could seek significance in your career and your business.
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We live in a time of unprecedented change. The wise business person will put disciplines and processes in place to keep the organization ahead of what’s next. We’re recommending a SCAN meeting.
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Our times are uniquely characterized by an unprecedented pace of change. If we are going to survive and thrive in this environment, we have to do some different things, and do others much better. One of these is the discipline of purposeful learning. It is the ultimate success skill for our age.
There is something incredibly compelling about being a part of an organization that aspires to something larger and more noble than others of their ilk. There is something in the soul of human beings that longs to be a part of something that not only strives for a better future but works to enhance the present.
A well-written manifesto taps into that power. It claims the best for its adherents and attracts the best people to it.
Adopting a powerful manifesto is a powerful act of wise and courageous leadership. It can be watershed event in the life of an organization, and the career of a professional.
The Significant Business Manifesto
The Significant Christian Business Manifesto
The Christian Salesperson’s Manifesto.
For much of my Christian life, I've struggled with a difficult and painful image of myself: I was a second-class Christian. Not only me, but everyone who was not ‘ordained’ or didn’t work in a full-time job for the institutional church. I’ve come to see that idea as one of the greatest flaws of 21st Century Christendom. Join with me to explore this.
How do I Integrate my Christian faith with day-to-day business practices?
This is a question almost every Christian professional and businessperson considers regularly. The answer isn’t simple, and it varies from time to time and place to place. But certain principles and practices can inform every set of circumstances. In this post, I share the concept of focusing on the process.
How do I Integrate my Christian faith with day-to-day business practices?
This is a question almost every Christian professional and businessperson considers regularly. The answer isn’t simple, and it varies from time to time and place to place. But certain principle and practices can inform every set of circumstances. In this post, I unpack one of five practical steps: Prepare your personal testimonies.
How do I Integrate my Christian faith with day-to-day business practices?
This is a question almost every Christian professional and businessperson considers regularly. The answer isn’t simple, and it varies from time to time and place to place. But certain principle and practices can inform every set of circumstances. In this post, I unpack the second of five practical steps: Seek to live out the Fruits of the Spirit.
How do I Integrate my Christian faith with day-to-day business practices?
This is a question almost every Christian professional and businessperson considers regularly. The answer isn’t simple, and it varies from time to time and place to place. But, certain principle and practices can inform every set of circumstances. In this podcast, I unpack the first practical step: Pray more and pray more intentionally.
“How do I integrate my Christian faith with my day-to-day business practices?”
That’s a question that almost every Christian considers from time to time. And, while that question may have been seen as mildly important as we mused on it several years ago, the rapid deterioration of our culture has suddenly injected it with an ASAP urgency. In this first of series, I deal with the ultimate hindrance to us.
One of the primary differences between the successful companies (and individuals) and the mediocre, is the ability to learn, change and grow. Successful companies build that into their cultures and disciplines, while mediocre companies (and individuals) do not.
One essential component of that core competency of the discipline of learning from the past. Successful companies and individuals often institutionalize that process in the form of an annual review.
Too many people think that Christianity and sales as a profession don’t mix. In my life I’ve found that they do, but it isn’t easy. Join with me as I reflect on the challenge of being a Christian salesperson.
By now, it should be apparent to any reasonably well-informed, thoughtful adult that we are in unprecedented times – and that the future of America is in jeopardy.
What if significant businesses could lead the way to restoring a calmer, fairer, more rational culture? Businesses are groups of people who already work together, have much in common, and exhibit many of the qualities we desire for the culture at large.
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Goal setting is a well-entrenched practice of every leadership team. But should it be? Is there an alternate approach to leading an organization? In this podcast, I drill a little deeper into it.
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Discouragement must be one of Satan’s primary tools. By generating discouragement in the hearts of Christians he effectively places them on the bench in the great contest between Satan and God. Here’s an antidote for it.
It was a hot June day in Tulsa, maybe 35 years ago, and I was attending a regional Christian conference. One of the speakers was Alan Bryan – a good ole’ boy with a heavy Alabama accent who began his presentation with those words.
It was almost delicious – these remarkable words, contorted through the accent that was almost a caricature, laid out over the audience and catching us up as if in a butterfly net. We all stared at him, wondering what was coming next.
Alan went on to explain, and then defend his title. Dogs don’t bark at tombstones. So, if you are figurately dead, content to stay within your comfort zones, afraid to verbalize your Christianity, then the dogs won’t bark at you.
Often, God doesn’t speak directly to us about a decision we have. Rather, He has spent a lifetime equipping us and molding us to develop the knowledge, the character, and the experience to answer the question. He’s provided us life experiences, taught us by trial and error and multiple failures, influenced us through relationships, and embedded into us a knowledge of Him and His word.
At some point, He expects us to use all of that which he has given us and decide based on wisdom.
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Ah, if only the people around us were more professional. Our lives would be easier, our businesses would grow more effortlessly, we’d find our jobs more fulfilling…the list of dramatic benefits can go on and on. But what does it mean to be more professional? More importantly, what can we do to make sure that we, and our associates, are becoming ever more professional?
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The pace of change has increased, the growth in complexity has multiplied, and information has proliferated at an unprecedented pace. We are in extraordinary times. And unprecedented times call for unique and disciplined approaches if we are to survive and thrive. In this twelfth of a series I unpack my recommendations for habits, attitudes and disciplines to intentionally put into your personal routines and your corporate culture to provide the tools you’ll need to survive and thrive in these complex times.
In this podcast, I unpack “Adherence to an unmoving set of ethics.”
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The pace of change has increased, the growth in complexity has multiplied, and information has proliferated at an unprecedented pace. We are in extraordinary times. And unprecedented times call for unique and disciplined approaches if we are to survive and thrive. In this eleventh of a series I unpack my recommendations for habits, attitudes and disciplines to intentionally put into your personal routines and your corporate culture to provide the tools you’ll need to survive and thrive in these complex times.
In this podcast, I unpack “The habit of continuously prioritizing & focusing.”
The pace of change has increased, the growth in complexity has multiplied, and information has proliferated at an unprecedented pace. We are in extraordinary times. And unprecedented times call for unique and disciplined approaches if we are to survive and thrive. In this tenth of a series I unpack my recommendations for habits, attitudes and disciplines to intentionally put into your personal routines and your corporate culture to provide the tools you’ll need to survive and thrive in these complex times.
In this article, I unpack “An examined spirituality.”
The pace of change has increased, the growth in complexity has multiplied, and information has proliferated at an unprecedented pace. We are in extraordinary times. And unprecedented times call for unique and disciplined approaches if we are to survive and thrive. In this ninth of a series I unpack my recommendations for habits, attitudes and disciplines to intentionally put into your personal routines and your corporate culture to provide the tools you’ll need to survive and thrive in these complex times. In this podcast, I unpack “the discipline of continuous learning.”
The pace of change has increased, the growth in complexity has multiplied, and information has proliferated at an unprecedented pace. We are in extraordinary times. And unprecedented times call for unique and disciplined approaches if we are to survive and thrive. In this eighth of a series I unpack my recommendations for habits, attitudes and disciplines to intentionally put into your personal routines and your corporate culture to provide the tools you’ll need to survive and thrive in these complex times. In this article, I unpack “A focus on strengths.”
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The pace of change has increased, the growth in complexity has multiplied, and information has proliferated at an unprecedented pace. We are in extraordinary times. And unprecedented times call for unique and disciplined approaches if we are to survive and thrive. In this seventh of a series I unpack my recommendations for habits, attitudes and disciplines to intentionally put into your personal routines and your corporate culture to provide the tools you’ll need to survive and thrive in these complex times. In this article, I unpack “The discipline of rational thinking.”
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The pace of change has increased, the growth in complexity has multiplied, and information has proliferated at an unprecedented pace. We are in extraordinary times. And unprecedented times call for unique and disciplined approaches if we are to survive and thrive. In this sixth of a series I unpack my recommendations for habits, concepts and disciplines to intentionally put into your routines and corporate culture to provide the tools you’ll need to survive and thrive in these complex times. In this podcast, I unpack “A propensity to take risks.”
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The pace of change has increased, the growth in complexity has multiplied, and information has proliferated at an unprecedented pace. We are in extraordinary times. And unprecedented times call for unique and disciplined approaches if we are to survive and thrive. In this fifth of a series, I unpack a set of recommendations for strategies, processes, attitudes, habits and disciplines to build into your lives and businesses – things I call sails and keels – to help us survive and thrive in these unprecedented times. In this podcast, I describe the next keel – the discipline of regular review and planning.
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In previous posts, I noted some of the factors that combine to create an incredibly turbulent, complex, rapidly changing and information-saturated world in which we find ourselves. Our ability to navigate these turbulent waters is the single biggest challenge we will face for the balance of our careers. In this post, I recommend another of the fundamental pieces of the infrastructure we need to survive and thrive – an attitude of openness.
In my previous posts, I noted some of the factors that combine to create an incredibly turbulent, complex, rapidly changing and information-saturated world in which we find ourselves. Our ability to navigate these turbulent waters is the single biggest challenge we will face for the balance of our careers. In this post, I recommend a fundamental piece of the infrastructure we need to survive and thrive – an articulated vision and purpose
In my previous podcast, I noted some of the factors that combine to create an incredibly turbulent, complex, rapidly changing and information-saturated world in which we find ourselves. Our ability to navigate these turbulent waters is the single biggest challenge we will face for the balance of our careers. In this podcast, I recommend a fundamental piece of the infrastructure we need to survive and thrive – an acceptance of personal responsibility.
If you are a professional, a business owner, or an executive and you want to increase your sales, then creating and continually refining a sales system is the best thing you can do. An effectively managed sales system will provide you with methodical, predictable sales with more control and less frustration than anything else.
In an earlier piece, I described the concept of a sales system, and depicted the basic infrastructure upon which every powerful sales system is built. In this podcast I’m going to add some flesh to those bones, focusing specifically on the most difficult part of every sales system – acquiring a customer.
The pace of change has increased, the growth in complexity has multiplied, and information has proliferated at an unprecedented pace. We are in extraordinary times. And unprecedented times call for unique and disciplined approaches if we are to survive and thrive.
In this podcast, I begin a series to help us dig deeper into the strategies that will help us survive and thrive in these turbulent times.
Focusing on one or more target markets is one of the key processes to building a successful sales system for your business or practice. But, business people are often unsure of how to go about the process of identifying those markets that hold the greatest potential. Here are seven strategies to help you identify your highest potential target markets.
Here’s the fifth in my series of nominations for words which should be banned from the Christian’s vocabulary: ‘Church planter.’
I know, that really affronts the sensibilities of most readers. Most Christians hold ‘church planting’ up at the top of their list of noble endeavors. How could anyone question that?
Before you dismiss this idea as pure heresy, stop, take a deep breath, and think with me. Let’s look at church planting from the biblical perspective, and then consider it in a practical sense.
The pace of change has increased, the growth in complexity has multiplied, and information has proliferated at an unprecedented pace. We are in extraordinary times. And unprecedented times call for unique and disciplined approaches if we are to survive and thrive.
In this podcast, I begin a series to help us dig deeper into the strategies that will help us survive and thrive in these turbulent times.
Acquiring new customers is one of those processes that frustrates and discourages most B2B sellers. It doesn’t have to be a frustrating and discouraging process. Like almost every aspect of a sales system, acquiring a new customer is a matter of understanding the processes and methodically implementing them in the right quantity and quality.
The starting point is developing a sufficient quantity of suspects.
Once a year, a small college in Michigan publishes a list of words that should be banished from the English language. These include words that have become incredibly over used, and still others that have been twisted to mean something entirely different from their original meaning. In the case of modern Western Christianity, we have a number of words that are so commonly used that the ideas they convey have become part of our culture, are rarely questioned, and, as a result, have changed our behavior in ways that are detrimental to our spiritual growth and the growth of the Kingdom. On top of that, they are non-biblical!
Here’s the fourth in my series of nominations for words which should be banned from the Christian’s vocabulary: worship service.
At its most fundamental level, business is always and only about three things: Money, people and systems.
There is a huge body of content revolving around money in business.
When it comes to people, as an element in business, there is an equally impressive body of knowledge and infrastructure.
When it comes to systems, however, particularly sales systems, there is not nearly the quantity and quality of conversation. And yet an effective sales system is, at the very least, just as necessary to the growth and health of a business as good people and adequate funds. Good systems are where the company’s financial assets intertwine with the people to produce results.
In the case of modern Western Christianity, we have a number of words that are so commonly used that the ideas they convey have become part of our culture, are rarely questioned, and, as a result, have changed our behavior in ways that are detrimental to our spiritual growth and the growth of the Kingdom. On top of that, they are non-biblical!
Here’s the third in my series of nominations for words which should be banned from the Christian’s vocabulary: ‘Pastor.’
One of the biggest decisions a business makes is the decision on which market segment to focus.
‘Market segment’ is the term that describes a group of suspects and prospects who have something in common. One of the most powerful principles of effective sales systems principles this: Define your target market as narrowly and precisely as possible. In this podcast, we unpack that powerful strategy
In our modern Western Christianity world, we have a number of words that are so commonly used that the ideas they convey have become part of our culture, are rarely questioned, and, as a result, have changed our behavior in ways that are detrimental to our spiritual growth and the growth of the Kingdom. On top of that, they are non-biblical!
Here’s the second in my series of nominations for words which should be banned from the Christian’s vocabulary: “Clergy.”
On-boarding a new employee typically involves someone(s) to train the new employee, and weeks training the new person.
But what if you could develop a system that eliminated much of that training time?
Years ago, we developed a tool that was originally conceived as a way to rapidly and painlessly bring a new field salesperson up to speed. Since then, we’ve found application for it with almost every job title, and a multitude of other applications.
We call it a learning list.
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In modern Western Christianity, we have a number of words that are so commonly used that the ideas they convey have become part of our culture, are rarely questioned, and, as a result, have changed our behavior in ways that are detrimental to our spiritual growth and the growth of the Kingdom. On top of that, they are non-biblical!
This is the first of a series on words that should be banned from Christianity. Here’s the first: “Ministry.”
Very soon we’ll be confronting the next wave of change as our companies and our jobs lurch back to something resembling pre-Covid normal. The question in the back of every executive’s mind is this:” How do we handle the post-Covid changes?”
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It seems like more and more business people have lost the ability to say no. That’s too bad. Being able to say no is a higher level skill that is advantageous in both business as well as life in general. Those who don’t master the art of saying no are forever doomed to an immaturity in their business skills, while those who can and do say no operate at a higher level of skill and social finesse.
“I practice my Christian faith when I involve myself and my family in the programs of the church. My business is my business – that’s something else. The two don’t have much to do with each other.” That comment expresses a pretty common view of the relationship between Christianity and business. My guess is that most Christian business people hold that belief.
Unfortunately, that belief is one of the false beliefs that hinder us from achieving our business potential. It leads to negative consequences and is clearly taught against in the Bible.
: Most people would love to have a richer, fuller, more fulfilling life. It is human nature. Fortunately, there is an age-old formula for attaining one. In this podcast, I’ll share my personal experiences and perspective.
So, what do you think you can do for us?” The CEO had finally gotten to that question after a couple of hours of introduction to his company and their specific marketing problem.
They had a successful company, selling acoustic panels through architects for buildings that had a sound problem. A year or so ago, they had developed a new product – a computer-operated sign board that allowed building managers to list events and meetings, and to easily change those as needed. The product had taken a year to develop and the company had poured all its excess financial resources into it – a couple of hundred thousand dollars. Now, they were having difficulty selling the product, and had no money to invest in a sales and marketing system.
I answered his question. “Nothing. I can’t make something out of nothing. If you have no money to invest in the system to sell this new product, I can’t do anything for you.”
Unfortunately, their situation is not unique.
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Our current level of electronic noise makes deep thinking almost impossible.
We are living at a time when the noise level of incoming messages has reached epic proportions. It’s like sitting in the front row of a rock concert. The level of noise is so great that you can’t discern a single word.
This produce multi-tasking, and that eliminates deep thinking, and threatens your business and our society.
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Over the last 50 years, in the space of one or two generations, we have lost the culture. We have removed God from a central position in our culture and, in His place, have substituted the idols of our times. It’s an incredible turn of events. Here we were, the richest, most prosperous, most Christian nation on earth; founded on Christian principles by Godly men, with a rich culture of God in our schools, in our media, and in our government. Then, in the space of one or two generations, we have lost it.
Is the Institutional Church Really the Church?
Failure can be a powerful influence in building our character. In this podcast, we look at a couple notable failures and consider the relationship between failure and the powerful character traits of pride and humility. This can impact your life and your career.
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Nike just reported on its 2020 initiatives and shared its five-year plan to expand its impact on the world.
The company has set the standard for corporate community responsibility that puts Christian businesses to shame. In so doing, Nike is setting a new bar for what it means to be a socially responsible company in today’s society.
This should be a wake-up call for Christian businesses. It is time for us not only to live out our faith but also show others who Jesus really is by intentionally planning to impact the communities we serve.
The world is filled with marketplace Christians who are content with a shallow Christian presence in their business, afraid of the consequences of a more visible, deeper approach. But what if the benefits far outweighed any discomfort that might come from stepping out and more visibly embracing Christianity in the marketplace? What if that which we would gain so far outweighs our small sense of temporary discomfort that we would look back on it down the road a bit and reflect, “I should have done that years ago.”
These include: Peace, purpose and a closer relationship with God. In this podcast, we’re going to look at the third of those responses: A closer relationship with God.
The world is filled with marketplace Christians who are content with a shallow Christian presence in their business, afraid of the consequences of a more visible, deeper approach. But what if the benefits far outweighed any discomfort that might come from stepping out and more visibly embracing Christianity in the marketplace? What if that which we would gain so far outweighs our small sense of temporary discomfort that we would look back on it down the road a bit and reflect, “I should have done that years ago.”
In this podcast, I unpack the second of those responses by digging into the sense of divine purpose that comes with a more visible commitment to our relationship with Christ in the marketplace.
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The world is filled with marketplace Christians who are content with a shallow Christian presence in their business, afraid of the consequences of a more visible, deeper approach. What if that which we would gain so far outweighs our small sense of temporary discomfort that we would look back on it down the road a bit and reflect, “I should have done that years ago. ”I recently asked the people who are members of my X-I Community to articulate one benefit to more closely aligning their business and their careers with God.
Their response? The most common benefit? Peace.
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Selling is at the same time both simple and incredibly challenging.
It is simple in that almost every adult of reasonable intelligence, who has just a modicum of people skills, can understand it and do it. It is incredibly challenging in that to become exceptionally good at it takes the better part of a life-time of effort and practice. In this podcast, I show you how to make it simple.
In all of my training and consulting work, I’ve found it helpful to establish, right at the beginning, a big picture view of the sales process.
Once we have an overview, we can understand every sales principle and practice, and use the big picture to focus our efforts to improve the effectiveness of our organization and our personal efforts.
I call it the ‘gap between idea and action,’ and it is one of the largest chasms in the road hindering our path to personal and organizational improvement. The gap between idea and action describes the ubiquitous phenomenon that we, all of us, have ideas and intentions, and yet turning those into actions – habits and routines that enhance our skills and smooth out our lives, only happens a bit of the time. As a general rule, we’re miserable at it.
If we can bridge that gap, we can supercharge our growth, feel less guilt and become more confident in our progression as a human being.
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Our actions follow our attitudes. The relationship between actions and attitudes is so close, that the two go hand-in-hand, and our actions can be seen as outward expressions of our attitudes. While it is easy to connect the two in this example, the principle that it unveils – that our attitudes influence our actions – extends to every aspect of our lives, and particularly to our jobs, in even the slightest and most mundane portions of our work lives. And that leads us to one of the greatest principles of self-improvement.
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There is something about adversity that has the power to linger forever in our memories, shaping our character and molding our behavior for the rest of our life. We can use it to grow and become better people, if we let it.
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We all recognize that our personal spiritual growth is a journey that lasts our lifetime. It typically takes decades for an individual to progress from the tiny steps of belief, repentance and baptism to the point at which he/she is a spirit-lead mature Christian.
But what about the spiritual growth and maturity of a business? Can those words and concepts even apply? Can a business develop its spiritual maturity in the same way that an individual does?
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“I’m too busy.” There is not an executive entrepreneur or salesperson in the world who can’t make that statement. We all know that we can easily spend 16 hours a day in the business.
The constant call of things to do is like an all-consuming magnetic force that pulls us into investing time and energy into the business. The pull is always there, the business is always on our minds, and we have to work at resisting it.
So, it’s easy to understand that, when faced with the charge to begin to add Biblical practices and principles to the business, so many of us default to “I’m so busy with the business, I can’t possibly take the time to implement anything additional.”
Here’s a simple solution.
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Because a Kingdom business is more than just a money-making entity, it has spiritual functions over and above those that proceed out of the desire to make money. In addition to the fundamental business areas of sales, operations, and finance, Christian companies are organized to make an impact for the Kingdom. This is a new idea for many Christian business people. Let’s dig into it.
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While many Christians have been content to focus on the worldly aspects of our business and professions, we’ve seen the culture fall apart around us, we’ve witnessed the percentage of Christians in the country shrink, and lately we’ve seen evil manifest itself in our country in ways that are unprecedented in our lifetime. And all of that prior to the Covid pandemic.
We’ve all heard the story of Nero fiddling while Rome burned. Likewise, Christians in the marketplace have been content to pursue worldly achievement while the culture around us has degraded. We’ve sat on the sidelines, oblivious to the spiritual carnage all around us.
Now is the time to step up and change that.
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We often see a crisis as a heavy, worrisome set of circumstances that threatens the status quo. We fear that it is likely to create some significant change that could bring dire economic circumstances, shake up our comfortable routines, and open the door to a fuzzy but scary future.
It is all that. Yet, if we respond effectively, it can be a watershed event in our lives and the life of our business – changing our course and opening up a whole new future of greater challenge, greater capacity, greater wealth, and deeper and broader impact. And the crises you may be in right now may be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for you.
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We understand that, as Christian businesspeople, we are charged with growing the assets we have been given to manage. And if we are successful, we will be given greater responsibilities and a closer relationship with God. If you have arrived at that point – where you see your career or your business as striving for excellence, extending God’s love, grace and provision to those you touch, and acknowledging his place in the all of this – is that sufficient?
Is that all there is? Or is that yet another level of impact available to the successful Christian professional or businessperson? Should we be salt and light beyond our own spheres of influence? Is there anything above and beyond that?
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A few decades ago, the culture in the US could objectively be described as ‘predominantly Christian influenced.” In the past 30 or so years, that has changed dramatically. As I am writing this, in the Fall of 2020, we have seen cultural trends come to a head: increased lawlessness; disrespect for authority, institutions and one another; abandonment of principles of rational thinking and the rule of law, among others.
It is common to blame others: partisan politicians, the death of objective journalism, left-wing college professors and teachers to name a few. And, while all of these have contributed to the mess we’re in, there is one factor that few people have acknowledged: US!
I’d like for us to consider this question: Has our mindless acceptance of the division and separation fostered by the institutional church system substantially contributed to the mess we’re in?
Do you have a Christian business? Or are you just a Christian in business? That question may seem trivial. But the answer can actually have a life-changing impact on you as well as profound implications for the Kingdom.
Biblical business owners and executives have a special opportunity to intercede for a certain segment of the Lord’s people – their employees, customers, and vendors. This is a special ministry for which business owners and executives are uniquely positioned. There is no other person who has relationship with the people that you, through your business, have.
While many businesspeople have a sense of that responsibility, they often get sidetracked in deciding how to make that happen. Here are some real-life examples of how people have made prayer a regular part of their business routines.
From a worldly perspective, businesses are formed to provide for the economic security of the folks who own and work in that business. Since food and shelter are basic needs, a business, to be viable, must meet those needs. And it does that by providing goods and services for money. Money then becomes one of the keys to any business. But that is just the beginning of a benefits to a business that is run on the Biblical model.
I have often wondered why we don’t see the Holy Spirit active in our lives, our businesses and our communities in the dramatic and visible ways that we see him in the early days of the church. What’s changed?
Some time ago, I realized that God has not changed, but we have. I received an image that made clear to me how we hinder the actions of the Holy Spirit in our lives and our businesses. The ideas and paradigms that we gradually acquire can hinder our understanding of God’s plans for us. In this article, I share that concept.
Here’s a very commonly held, and incredibly bad Idea:
Real ministry is only done under the auspices of established religion.
This message—that real ministry is only done under the auspices of established religion- is implicit on so many levels that it is almost impossible to be a churchgoer and not absorb this idea. Church buildings are often referred to as “God’s house;” pastors are often imbued with some special authority, and giving to the local church is held up as a prerequisite for the Christian life. All these together combine to send the message that “real ministry” is only done under the auspices of the established institution.
The problem with it is twofold: first, it is not biblical, and second, the impact of believing it is devastating.
Because a Kingdom business is more than just a money-making entity, it has spiritual functions over and above those that proceed out of the desire to make money. In addition to the fundamental business areas of sales, operations, and finance, Christian companies are organized to make an impact for the Kingdom. So, they ought to measure those results much like they do for sales, finance, etc.This is a new idea for many Christian business people. Let’s dig into it.
One of the watershed moments in the life and growth of a business occurs when the executives design and implement a system of measurements. This signals the development of the business from an entrepreneurial effort to a serious organization that can exist outside of the hands-on involvement of the entrepreneur. In this piece, we unpack that idea and show you how to create and use a a set of systems measurements.
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In the early 1960’s, this country could be characterized as being predominantly “Christian.”
Over the last 50 years, in the space of one or two generations, we have lost the culture. This is an epic failure, akin to the ancient Israelites giving up the worship of Jehovah and turning to idols. Our culture has done exactly that. We have removed God from a central position in our culture and, in His place, have substituted the idols of our times. Greed, sex, power and secular humanism have replaced Christ as the bedrock of our culture.
It’s an incredible turn of events. Here we were, the richest, most prosperous, most Christian nation on earth; founded on Christian principles by Godly men, with a rich culture of God in our schools, in our media, and in our government. Then, in the space of one or two generations, we have lost it.
The unemployment which followed the Covid-19 shutdowns has impacted the Christian community as well. You may be unemployed. It may be your first time.
Regardless, there are a number of us who have been there and can empathize with you. I have personally been through three serious periods of unemployment, and I have counseled with dozens of friends and associates who have been there as well. Here’s some advice from someone who has been there.
"Am I required to give my tithe to the local church?
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Christian entrepreneurs and businesspeople are often alone in dealing with the demands of growing a Christian business. This loneliness, in addition to fueling debilitating emotion, spawns lots of significant consequences. Yet, there is an antidote to aloneness in the C-suite.
As we process the events of the last couple of months, what observations should we make? And, based on those, what actions should we take going forward?
While we can make lots of observations about the political arena and the media, but in this article, we will focus on the impact of the pandemic on Christian businesses.
So, the question at hand is this: What can Christian businesses people learn from the crisis including the reaction to it, and what modifications should we make to be better equipped for life on the other side?
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Every Christian understands that there are certain fundamentals of the Christian faith, and that ‘giving’ is one of them.
And while we have all heard lots of sermons about the need to give, and give generously, very few of us have heard any Biblical teaching on an important aspect of that giving – “To whom should we give?” And “How should we give it?” We’re looking more closely at those questions.
We’ve all heard the conventional wisdom that to run a successful business, you need to “put the right people on the right seats on the bus.” Unfortunately, that advise ignores a more important element of business success. Before you arrange the people, you must have the bus in good condition. That means the systems and structure of an organization must effective and efficient. One way to think about that is to view it through the perspective of freedom and boundaries.
Here’s part two of my response to this question: Dave, I’m a salesperson. I feel really conflicted between the culture of the job and my commitment to Christ. Do you have any suggestions as to how I reflect my Christianity in my job?
The Christian Sales Manifesto is available here: https://www.davekahle.com/sign-manifesto/
Intro: Here’s my response to this question: Dave, I’m a salesperson. I feel really conflicted between the culture of the job and my commitment to Christ. Do you have any suggestions as to how I reflect my Christianity in my job?
There are lots of challenges and great opportunities in the role of a Christian Salesperson. In this podcast, I share some wisdom from 30 years of sales.
The Christian Salesperson’s Manifesto is available here: https://www.davekahle.com/sign-manifesto/
Have you noticed this about the Bible? Sometimes, when the Lord really wants us to understand something, He repeats it. This may be one of only a couple of times in the entire Bible where he repeats Himself, word for word, not just once, but three times, in just a few passages. He tells Joshua, as the Hebrews are about to enter the promised land, to “Be strong and be brave.” Is there a lesson in this for us? Should we, as a leader, be strong and be brave?
You may want to read this blog post: Traits of a Great Business Leader: https://www.thebiblicalbusiness.com/traits-of-great-business-leaders-7-courage/
Chances are you will find yourself in a personal or career crises at some point in your life. Reflecting on those points in my life and career, when I've gone through those times, I’ve crystalized some ideas that may help you.
You may find this blog post helpful as well: https://www.thebiblicalbusiness.com/unemployed-christians/
We are in the middle of some difficult times. What do we do? We need to answer that question in an immediate, urgent basis: What do we do right now?
We also need to answer the question in a strategic, on-going way. What do we do this week, this month, this year? How shall we wisely and prudently arrange our activities – not just for this moment, for the next few months?
In this podcast I share some experience and wisdom as someone who has been here before.
Too many Christian business people remain in the Christian-closet, afraid to publicly acknowledge their Christianity on the job. The results, for those individuals and our society at large, are devastating.
The culture in the US continues to slide away from a conservative Christian culture toward to a secularized, anti-God position. Contributing to this is the tendency for Christian business people to remain on the sidelines, unengaged in the culture wars. Fear is the motivating force that keeps them in the Christian closet.
The dilemma of how to be evangelistic on the job has plagued Christian business people for decades. In this article, we exam the issue and provide a four-phase, Biblical, easily adaptable model.
Giving is one of the hallmarks of Christian living. No one argues with the idea that giving, and giving generously, is expected of every Christian. But what about Christian businesses? Is there an expectation that Christian-owned businesses – as entities that exist separate and apart from their owners – should also give?
The idea that business can be a mission is, in our cultural Christianity, a relatively recent idea. But God established business as a ministry with some of the very first words he spoke, and he continued to model that throughout the Bible. Your business is a ministry, waiting to be unleashed.
Biblical businesses, or households, had a significant role in expanding and solidifying the early Christian movement. The Bible demonstrates a spirituality in business that few in the religious community recognize. Your business has that same potential to become a spiritual juggernaut, not just a means to make money. That can bring you greater fulfilment and purpose in your life.
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Our contemporary religious culture often holds business in low regard – it is, to some, a second-class Christian occupation whose only function is to provide money for them. That’s not how the Bible portrays it. Take a look at what the Bible has to say about business making money and building wealth.
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Spiritual Gifts in Your Business
Almost all the great leaders in the Bible were developed in business.
The implications of this pattern of truth in the Bible are staggering – prompting us to take a new view of the purpose of our business and a new vision of what we do within them.
Just like in the early days of Christianity, most Christians today are ignorant of the concept of spiritual gifts, and that ignorance leads to a life that achieves only a fraction of its potential. Second, spiritual gifts, identified and unleashed, can be a powerful asset within a business to enable it to reach its Kingdom potential. Let's dig into this together.
From the very beginning of creation, all the way through the Bible to today, God established work, and by extension, business, as the primary occupation of mankind and the fundamental place where he would interact with man and develop a relationship with him. If you are a Christian, and own or run a business or a significant portion of that business, and you want to create a relationship with God, look for him in your work.
God Things -- Stories of how God works in lives and businesses: https://www.thebiblicalbusiness.com/godthings/
Work—and by extension, business—is so important to God that he has created “works” for each of us to do, and he prepared them way in advance of our being ready to do them. Just as he gave Adam the task of naming the animals and then worked with him on that task, so he gives each of us tasks to do and works with us to do them. It is how he designed his creation to operate.
While we are familiar with the grand movements of God and the great stories that describe them, we have missed one of the underlying truths: that the primary way God works with man is through our labor and the businesses that emerge from it.
Few ideas are more universally accepted among business people than this one – that there is a tension between work and life and that the secret is to balance the two. No matter what we do, we feel like the striving for balance hinders our business growth and frustrates our families. But, what if there were a different approach? Let’s consider what the Bible has to say about work/life balance.
This is Denise's story of how God impacted her business by first speaking through an unlikely source, and then providing her a new building for her company.
: “Plans fail when there is no counsel, but they succeed when advisers are many.“ (Proverbs 15:22)
This is an often-quoted verse, a piece of advice from King Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived. While the advice doesn't appear to be pointed only at business people, the application of that wisdom can make the difference between success and failure for a business person.
How do you apply the wisdom of this passage in a practical way to a business?
There is an elephant in the room in modern Christianity. It is the incredible division among us. It diverts our attention and resources, causes non-Christians to avoid us, encourage superficial Christianity, and substitutes ‘churchianity’ for Christianity. Let’s look at this issue together.
There is a lot of conversation these days about using our businesses to make a positive impact on our communities and the people we touch. Typically, the conversation runs to mission statements and high-level topics.
While there is nothing wrong with those, from time to time we can all use a wake-up call for what it means to use your business or job to make an impact on people in a practical, man-in-the-streets perspective. I had such a wakeup call when I was on the receiving end of not one, not two, but three people who chose to use their businesses and their jobs to impact people.
The days following 911 were eerily similar to the impact of Covid-19. Businesses shut down, the economy nose-dived and fear and anxiety ruled our society. As I was about to lay off all my employees, God transformed the business, and brought it to a higher level of impact and visibility.
Here's that story.
The virus pandemic, and the aftermath, represent an opportunity for Christian businesspeople to multiply their Kingdom impact. Let me share with you my story of an eerily similar situation -- the 911 aftermath -- and how God used that to expand our business, serve thousands of people, and change the industry. Then, I'll share my recommendations for how you can do something similar.
We are in the middle of some difficult times. Rather than belabor that point, I’d like to come to the heart of the problem: What do we do? We need to answer that question in an immediate, urgent basis: What do we do right now?
We also need to answer the question in a strategic, on-going way. What do we do this week, this month, this year? How shall we wisely and prudently arrange our activities – not just for this moment, for the next few months? Ultimately, as we sort through our lives, as we think about our careers and guide our businesses, we need to confront and answer that question.
In the article I share some experience and wisdom as some one who has been here before.
In the most trying circumstances, having a greater purpose can be a powerful mechanism to see you through. Here’s my personal story.
Literally millions of people have been exposed to Christ through our institutional churches. The problem is that what happens there so turns them off that they are lost to Christianity for the rest of their lives. They equate church with Christianity, and find church to be disagreeable, and so reject Christ.
It’s like we are vaccinating them from ever considering Christ again. A vaccination is made from dead and powerless organisms, that, when injected into our body prevent us from contacting the real thing. That’s exactly what we are doing to the lost around us. We bring them into our churches, and it turns them off. They equate church with Christianity, and then become immune to the real power of Christ.