How Jesus can help motivate your workforce!

Sorry to stray a bit from the debate on conversions.

This post is meant for our CEO visitors!

Jesus wanted people to work really hard on their jobs! In fact he has given specific instructions to that effect in the Bible.

This is what Paul, a follower of Jesus has to say:

`Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not men.'

Paul wrote this in a book called Colossians (it is one of the many wonderful books in the Bible.)

Here is how I would interpret this for the modern workforce:

1) `All your heart' -- Put all your creative energies and all your strength into your work. Work hard, work with passion, work with commitment. Work with all your heart. So no Monday morning blues for those who are followers of Jesus

2) `As working for God not men' - Don't work only to please your boss, work for the greater good. In fact forget that you are working for your boss; think that you are working for God. Now God is not to be taken lightly. He knows the deepest thoughts and motives in your heart. So while you can fool around when working for your boss, you can't fool around if you are working for God. So give it all you've got and irrespective of whether your boss rewards you or not God will reward you. And hasn't anyone told you yet? You can kiss goodbye to all bonuses and fat appraisals until Obama yanks the US out of a recession.

So guess what? It pays to hire followers of Jesus in your company.

BTW, some of us here have designed a one hour motivational talk for the workforce based on words of wisdom lke this from the Bible. So any of you CEOs, reading this blog, leave a coment if you are interested and we will find a way of spending an hour pepping up your workforce!

Bye for now....

Anand