Step Six: Help the Organization’s Stakeholders to Develop Skill and Experience in Making Breakthroughs

You will know them by their fruits.
Do men gather grapes from thornbushes
or figs from thistles?
Even so, every good tree bears good fruit,
but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
A good tree cannot bear bad fruit,
nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.
— Matthew 7:16-18 (NKJV)

As praiseworthy and fruitful for God as it is for an
organization to make breakthroughs in all of its most
important activities, imagine how much more can be
accomplished in fulfilling God’s purposes when
stakeholders (such as customers, customers’ customers,
end users, beneficiaries, partners, employees,
employees’ families, distributors, suppliers, and the
communities served) also make breakthroughs in their
most important Godly activities, both personal and
professional.

Some leaders may fear to assist in encouraging the
use of such powerful knowledge, even in a holy purpose,
being concerned that stakeholders will then be able, and
feel encouraged, to harmfully oppose the organization’s
best interests. Leaders who experience effective
opposition from stakeholders should instead realize that
they are learning an important lesson: They have set a
course in opposition to the best interests and concerns of
stakeholders. When that happens, leaders violate the
Golden Rule. Harmony follows from selecting a mutually
beneficial course that is blessed by God and acting
consistently with that intent, as a dependable, devoted
servant of those stakeholders.

When all stakeholders appreciate how anyone’s Godly
success is a cause for rejoicing by all others, there can be
no higher organizational goal than to enhance the ability
of the stakeholders to make their own righteous
breakthroughs. Here are some of the benefits that can
accrue to the organization in addition to pleasing God:

• Customers: greater benefits from purchasing the
organization’s offerings and more resources to make
purchases
• Customers’ customers: greater benefits from
purchasing the customers’ and the organization’s
offerings and more resources to make purchases
• End users: greater benefits from using the
customers’ customers’, customers’, and organization’s
offerings and more resources to use those offerings
• Beneficiaries: greater benefits from using the
customers’ customers’, customers’, and organization’s
offerings and more capabilities to make good use of
those offerings
• Partners: greater benefits from working with the
organization and a greater ability to add value to both
the organization and to its many stakeholders
• Employees: greater benefits from working for the
organization and a greater ability to add value to the
organization and all of its stakeholders
• Employees’ families: greater benefits from being
related to the employee and a greater ability to live
happily and in peace with the employee
• Distributors: greater availability of the organization’s
offerings and better support for those who obtain the
organization’s resources and offerings from the
distributors
• Suppliers: greater profits from selling to the
organization and in serving other of the suppliers’
customers
• Communities served: greater health, happiness,
peace, and prosperity while living in closer cooperation
with other people

An organization that has mastered creating righteous
breakthroughs is in a good position to make learning
how to make similar breakthroughs much easier for its
stakeholders. Many of its experiences and resources and
much of its knowledge can be directly helpful to
stakeholders. In addition, many experiences and
resources and much of its knowledge can be adapted to
be helpful to stakeholders.

How should the organization begin to lead stakeholders
toward their own righteous breakthroughs? There is
probably no single answer that is right for all
organizations. Organizations with effective leaders may,
in fact, be able to engage in outreach efforts to several
stakeholder groups at the same time.

In considering what to do first, I especially encourage
organizational leaders to keep in mind the obvious
advantages of making its employees and their families
early focuses. These stakeholders are more vulnerable
to having their Godly interests not be considered and
honored enough. In some organizations today, employee
workloads effectively keep families apart too much,
leading to much pain and sorrow. When employees are
more fruitful, they don’t need to work as many hours
and can usually arrange more flexible schedules.

Employees are then able to spend more time with their
families and pay more attention to being considerate of
family members. Some employees also work with many
of the organization’s stakeholders. Once employees have
developed skill and experience in 2,000 percent
solutions, they can be a large and tremendous resource
for assisting other stakeholders to do the same.

Employees’ families can use righteous breakthroughs
that they create to solve their own problems and those
of their friends and neighbors. When that happens,
employees enjoy benefits from such improvements. In
some cases, family members will also make righteous
breakthroughs in ways to help the employee live a more
fulfilled life with the family. When that happens, the
organization is likely to attract and retain employees
who will be more effective and have greater potential to
create even more righteous breakthroughs.

Copyright 2010 Donald W. Mitchell, All Rights Reserved.