day 2302: Hidden Values

“For everything that is hidden will eventually be brought into the open, and every secret will be brought to light.”

Let’s just cut to it, all the talk about values and principles don’t mean anything unless we hire, fire and reward based the beliefs and living out of the company values and/or not living them out. The only thing worse than not using the values to hire and reward is not using the values to fire.  Want to make a mockery of those values you put together and shared with everyone?  Just allow someone to violate those values without repercussion. There are plenty of companies and organizations today that are reeling because they turned their eyes away from behaviors that ran counter to their values and now what they only wanted to believe could stay in secret, is not, it’s all in the open. Hidden values are of no value at all.

We also can’t live as if our actions are in secret.  There are no secrets.  So, if we are living as if our values are hidden, then we are not living as Christ has asked us to do. In our workplaces we get the opportunity, every day, to work and live to values that others respect and admire.  And, when we do so, we honor our Lord. The key is that when asked, “Why is it you do things the way you do?”, that we are ready to let others know that we do so because we follow in the footsteps of the One we serve. This, we also we can’t keep hidden.

Reference:  Mark 4:22 (New Living Translation)

 

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