I'M
CONCERNED THAT WE'RE GOING TO GET COMPLACENT.
We
are going to forget the basics. We’re going to get sloppy. We’re going to
let our guard down. What happens in business when that is the case makes the
difference between those who are successful and those who are not.
Let’s
say we get sloppy with our employees, our most important asset. We’re late
with their annual review. We forget to wish them a Happy Birthday or their
wedding anniversary. From
their perspective, we’ve stopped caring. What happens?
Employee
morale goes down the drain. Negativity
begins…about the company, about the products, about the leadership…and even
about serving the customers!
If
we don’t care, then why should they care about our customers?
Of
course, you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know that this has the
effect of lowering customer satisfaction. Which affects repeat and referral
business.
Guess
What? Profitability has dropped.
What
about complacency when it has to do with reaching the lost? I’m involved in a ministry that desires to reach, encourage
and equip business leaders toward God’s mission for our lives.
What concerns me right now is making sure that we have 50% of the
attendees at our next outreach be non-Christians. Whatever we are most concerned about is
what will be happening. If we want
to just have a “fellowship” meeting, then that’s what we’ll get.
If we desire to reach lost business men and women, then that’s likely
where we will produce results.
In
some ways, the old saying about computers applies here. Garbage in Garbage out.
What you put in is what you’ll get out.
Decide what’s important and then make your investment there.
What
does the Word say?
Prov
24:33-34
A
little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest--and
poverty will come on you like a bandit and scarcity like an armed man.
2
Cor 9:6
Remember
this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows
generously will also reap generously.