Do your values show up in your business?

Do values helped or hurt your business?

A while back I read an article by Venessa Wong from Bloomberg Business Week. In the article she wrote about how Chick-fil-A’s sales in 2013 had surpassed KFC as the top chicken fast food chain. Chick-fil-A’s sales have passed $5 billion while KFC’s sales were $4.2 billion. Fascinating to me was that Chick-fil-A has fewer than 1,800 stores while KFC has almost 4,500 stores.

What is more interesting to me is that Chick-fil-A’s is closed Sunday for religious reasons. This is the reason for this blog.

While some people might be alarmed that while we live in a very secular or worldly North America, this company has decided that they will follow what is very important to them and it is based on the owner’s religious views. I say bravo! I congratulate them because I know that if a person can’t follow their values they will get tugged ever which way and thus have no direction. This lack of direction will lead to not having a focus, thus they will try to be everything to everybody.

What can you do today that will help you and your organization fine-tune your values?

When these values are fine-tuned, can you imagine how much easier it will be to make decisions?

Won’t that be a great help to you and your role in the organization?