Bible MBASample

A Spirit of Excellence 

Uriah replied, “The Ark and the armies and the general and his officers are camping out in open fields, and should I go home to wine and dine and sleep with my wife? I swear that I will never be guilty of acting like that.” 2 Samuel 11:11 TLB 

Nobility is often exclusively associated with high rank. That is an error. Nobility has no intrinsic relationship with the station a person occupies in life. Nobility is simply a measure of how hard a person pursues after excellence. 

Although a low ranking soldier, Uriah was clearly a nobleman. Given the option by no less than the king, to slack off while his colleagues slugged it out at the war front, Uriah politely declined the king's orders. As a trained soldier, he had a personal standard of excellence that did not waver even though he had the perfect, and irreproachable excuse to lower it. 

To build sound corporate culture, it is important that everyone in the organization develops this personal standard of excellence, and lives by it even when presented with the perfect excuse to lower them. 

The big question for the business leader is, how do you instill this standard in your people? 

The first thing to realize is, you cannot sustainably inspire people to act in a way that is higher than your own personal standards. Ultimately, your own standard of excellence forms the lid on the organization's standard of excellence. 

Critically, it is somewhat naïve to presuppose that a culture of excellence will evolve without any opposition from the devil. To fulfill God's purpose of being the light in a sin-darkened world where money is the god, you will have to contend with established strongholds. 

And so, better believe it, there is warfare involved in building corporate culture. But thankfully, “...in all these things, we are more than conquerors...” (Romans 8:37)