Episodes
Monday Jan 31, 2022
Monday Jan 31, 2022
In our work with the Catholic leader, one of the most sensitive subjects is whether or not they should make money. For some reason making a profit in our business has been associated with guilt and corruption. But is this association always accurate? Is it okay for a Catholic business leader to actually make a profit? And if they do make a profit what are they supposed to do with it? How does Christ qualify our success and how does a profitable Christian business look different from those of the world?
Monday Jan 17, 2022
Monday Jan 17, 2022
All of us engaged in business know the scenario: the people at the top have the answers, the people at the bottom have the wherewithal, the people at the top become frustrated that the people at the bottom don’t execute, and the people at the bottom become frustrated because the people at the top don’t listen. How do we reverse this paradigm? In 2011 the Catholic Church issued a document called, “The Vocation Of The Catholic Business Leader.” It issued six principles to govern leadership in this environment. The fourth principle, that of subsidiarity, tackles just this question.
Monday Jan 10, 2022
Monday Jan 10, 2022
The non-Christian world can paint a vision of capitalism wherein the owner or the boss rules over the workers – exacting from them the maximum of energies in the most efficient way possible for the maximum profit. Is this the vision that God has for our work? In its landmark document from 2011, the Catholic Church lays out six principles to guide business leaders. Its third principle holds that business ought to be for the benefit of the employees as well as the customer. Here’s how this can be done.
Monday Jan 03, 2022
Monday Jan 03, 2022
All of us are aware of the cliché that says that business somehow causes poverty or that capitalism and charity are opposed. This however is challenged by the document that the Vatican released in 2011 called “The Vocation Of The Catholic Business Leader.” This document issues six principles that are to guide every business leader in their vocation and its second principle says that businesses are there to help the poor. How can this be done?