by Dave Kahle | Jan 16, 2026 | Christian-Business, Christian-Kingdom issues, Christian-Leadership, Christian-Personal Development
by Dave Kahle When we hear the word “belief” we commonly jump to ideas about big picture concepts. Do we believe in God, for example, or are we atheists and don’t believe? But our beliefs can be much...
by Kahle Wisdom | Nov 6, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Personal Development, Leadership-General, Christian-Leadership
Inject yourself into a Learning Event — Select the Content In the Menta-Morphosis® Learning System, the learner injects himself/herself into a learning event. As a Menta-Morphosis® Facilitator, you select the content. When you are facilitating a...
by Dave Kahle | Oct 2, 2025 | Growth-Miscellaneous, Christian-Business, Christian-Leadership, Christian-Personal Development
by Dave Kahle In a recent conversation with one of my CBIG (Christian Business Impact Group) members, the conversation went to traveling. In my career, I’ve traveled extensively, averaging 250 – 300 flights per year for many years. I remarked that I have...
by Kahle Wisdom | Jul 22, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Personal Development, Leadership-Business, Christian-Business, Christian-Leadership
Introduction: A Precise Prescription is a written statement of exactly what we will commit to doing. It often signifies the end of the thinking process. Used for This is used to help bridge the gap from idea (the conclusion to which your process has brought us) to...
by Dave Kahle | Jun 19, 2025 | Growth-Personal Development, Growth-Significance, Christian-Leadership
by Dave Kahle Thinking about your spirituality? Wondering if there is something deeper and more meaningful for your life? You’re not alone. George Barna, the researcher, has unearthed a condition of modern American life: “…recent studies at our Barna Research...
by John | Apr 9, 2025 | Christian-Leadership
Starting a business is exciting, but it’s also a leap into the unknown. Many entrepreneurs dive headfirst into their ideas without taking the time to evaluate whether their concept is viable. The result? A staggering number of businesses fail within their first few...
by Dave Kahle | May 16, 2024 | Christian-Leadership
by Dave Kahle I’m facing a big business decision – whether to invest a significant portion of my retirement funds into a new venture whose financial success is hardly assured. At the same time, last week I worked with a friend who is faced with a very similar decision...
by Kahle Wisdom | May 25, 2022 | Christian-Leadership
Courses for Christian Business People Our Courses consist of Collections, Learning Paths and Routes “CN” designates a Collection of podcasts, blog posts and other resources treating a theme. All Collections are free to all members. CN: Penetrating the Difficult...
by Kahle Wisdom | May 25, 2022 | Christian-Leadership
Topics for Christian Business People Sales Systems Listening more Effectively Personal Improvement Sales Principles...
by Dave Kahle | Jun 24, 2021 | Christian-Leadership
Navigating your way through complexity in a rapidly changing, information-saturated world The pace of change has increased, the growth in complexity has multiplied, and information has proliferated at an unprecedented pace. We are in extraordinary times. And...
by Dave Kahle | Jun 24, 2021 | Christian-Leadership
Navigating your way through complexity in a rapidly changing, information-saturated world We all know that we find ourselves in an incredibly turbulent, complex, rapidly changing, and information-saturated world. Intuitively, we understand that our ability to navigate...
by Dave Kahle | Jun 24, 2021 | Thinking Better, Growth-Miscellaneous, Growth-Personal Development, Christian-Leadership
Navigating your way through complexity in a rapidly changing, information-saturated world The pace of change has increased, the growth in complexity has multiplied, and information has proliferated at an unprecedented pace. We are in extraordinary times. And...
by Dave Kahle | Jun 24, 2021 | Christian-Leadership
Navigating your way through complexity in a rapidly changing, information-saturated world We all know that we find ourselves in an incredibly turbulent, complex, rapidly changing, and information-saturated world. Intuitively, we understand that our ability to navigate...
by Dave Kahle | Jun 24, 2021 | Christian-Leadership
Navigating your way through complexity in a rapidly changing, information-saturated world We all know that we find ourselves in an incredibly turbulent, complex, rapidly changing, and information-saturated world. Intuitively, we understand that our ability to navigate...
by Dave Kahle | Jun 24, 2021 | Christian-Leadership
Navigating your way through complexity in a rapidly changing, information-saturated world The pace of change has increased, the growth in complexity has multiplied, and information has proliferated at an unprecedented pace. We are in extraordinary times. And...
by Dave Kahle | Jun 24, 2021 | Leadership-Sales Management, Christian-Leadership
Navigating your way through complexity in a rapidly changing, information-saturated world This is the third of a series of posts recommending and describing a series of disciplines, processes, practices and character traits we need to build into our lives and our...
by Dave Kahle | Jun 24, 2021 | Leadership-Sales Management, Christian-Leadership
Navigating your way through complexity in a rapidly changing, information-saturated world In my previous post, I noted some of the factors that combine to create an incredibly turbulent, complex, rapidly changing, and information-saturated world in which we find...
by Dave Kahle | May 28, 2021 | Christian-Leadership
I just received a notice to upgrade one of my software programs from version 7.9.1 to the latest – version 7.9.2. You know the drill, as it happens almost daily. Log in to your computer and you’re almost immediately confronted with the latest upgrades. ‘Click here to...
by Kahle Wisdom | Feb 6, 2020 | Christian-Leadership
One of the watershed moments in the life and growth of a business occurs when the executives design and implement a system of measurements. This signals the development of the business from an entrepreneurial effort to a serious organization that can exist outside of...
by Kahle Wisdom | May 16, 2019 | Leadership-Entrepreneurs & Executives, Leadership-Sales Management, Christian-Leadership
Change We’re living in incredibly turbulent times. Despite newspaper headlines proclaiming growing employment and an expanding economy, many business people admit to a pervasive feeling of uncertainty and confusion about their businesses. The well-spring of...
by Kahle Wisdom | Feb 19, 2019 | Leadership-Entrepreneurs & Executives, Leadership-Sales Management, Christian-Leadership
What may be the single most important predictor of an organization’s long term survival is that organization’s ability to learn. In a world that is changing more rapidly today than at any previous time in human history, the consistent practice of learning is the only...
by Kahle Wisdom | Jan 30, 2019 | Leadership-Entrepreneurs & Executives, Leadership-Sales Management, Christian-Leadership
Building a successful business requires serious focus on four fundamental components. Those include the three elements of infrastructure: Systems, people and money, and the thing that ties those three together and empowers them to reach their potential: corporate...
by Kahle Wisdom | Jul 24, 2018 | Christian-Kingdom issues, Christian-Leadership
It was 2010, and the financial crises which exploded in 2008 was, at last, reaching my business. My clients, B2B sales organizations, were shrinking and a few were going out of business. Investing in developing their sales force – the heart of my business —...
by Kahle Wisdom | Jul 18, 2018 | Christian-Kingdom issues, Christian-Leadership
Most Christian business people are woefully ignorant of the impact their businesses can have on the Kingdom. God designed business to be a powerful force in the Kingdom. A Christian business is a powerful ministry. “What’s next?” That’s a question every...
by Kahle Wisdom | Jun 26, 2018 | Christian-Kingdom issues, Christian-Leadership
When you think of great examples of faith from the Bible, you automatically conjure up Abraham, who fathered the Hebrew people. His faith is legendary; so great that he was willing to sacrifice his only son to be obedient to God. Dig a little into businesses in the...
by Kahle Wisdom | Jun 25, 2018 | Christian-Kingdom issues, Christian-Leadership
In the first moments of creation, when God instituted business, he designed it to be the place where mankind unleashed his inherent creativity. Let’s look: Genesis 1:15 “The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. “...
by Kahle Wisdom | Jun 19, 2018 | Christian-Leadership
There are certain ideas bantered about so frequently and repeated with such sincerity that no one questions their accuracy. One such idea is the issue of work/home balance. The idea is that there is a conflict between one’s work and one’s home life. Particularly for...
by Kahle Wisdom | May 7, 2018 | Christian-Kingdom issues, Christian-Leadership
It is, but you might not know it. Let me explain. The very first words God spoke to Adam were to charge him with a lifetime purpose (work the Garden and keep it) and then to give him a job, within that greater purpose (name the animals.) God then worked with Adam to...
by Kahle Wisdom | Apr 27, 2018 | Podcasts, Christian-Leadership
Most Christians today consider business to be outside the scope of Christianity. It’s God first and family second. But, what if the Bible knew no distinction between family and business? Dig into the scriptures with me. Your views of business will never be...
by Kahle Wisdom | Apr 9, 2018 | Leadership-Entrepreneurs & Executives, Leadership-Sales Force, Leadership-Sales Management, Christian-Leadership
My wife is a crises counselor. You would think that, by the very nature of the word crises, she would see a continually changing group of clients who were dealing with the occasional crises. Not so. She frequently engages with the same group of folks who lurch from...
by Kahle Wisdom | Apr 4, 2018 | Christian-Kingdom issues, Christian-Leadership
Adapted from The Good Book on Business by Dave Kahle In the Old Testament, we noted that businesses took on spiritual significance. In the beginning, God created work, and by extension, business, as the venue in which he would interact with mankind. We saw that the...
by Kahle Wisdom | Mar 26, 2018 | Christian-Kingdom issues, Christian-Leadership
I know that comes as a surprise to many Christian business people, who have been conditioned by our contemporary religious culture to think of money-making as a second-class endeavor. Running a business that actually makes a profit is, in some religious circles, a...
by Kahle Wisdom | Mar 22, 2018 | Leadership-Entrepreneurs & Executives, Leadership-Sales Management, Christian-Leadership
Are things changing rapidly in your business? Silly question, isn’t it? Of course they are changing. Rapid change is the distinguishing characteristic of our age. Take that rapid change and add to it growing competition, increasing complexity, consolidations at...
by Kahle Wisdom | Feb 21, 2018 | Leadership-Sales Management, Christian-Leadership
Stories can be powerful tools to shape behavior and dramatically communicate expectations. Wise executives continually seek opportunities to capture and then relate a story that supports and illustrates the organization’s culture. If the story can be tied to a piece...
by Kahle Wisdom | Feb 19, 2018 | Leadership-Sales Management, Christian-Leadership
Almost all the great leaders in the Bible were developed in business. The implications of this pattern of truth in the Bible are staggering – prompting us to take a new view of the purpose of our business and a new vision of what we do within them. The Pattern First,...
by Kahle Wisdom | Feb 7, 2018 | Leadership-Entrepreneurs & Executives, Leadership-Sales Management, Christian-Leadership
Adapted from Sell Better: How to Create a Sales System to Grow Your Business by Dave Kahle Whereas acquiring a customer typically requires an investment, the “creating a client” process is generally where you re-coop the investment and start to make your sales system...
by Kahle Wisdom | Feb 7, 2018 | Leadership-Entrepreneurs & Executives, Leadership-Sales Management, Christian-Leadership
Adapted from “Sell Better: How to create a sales system to grow your business” by Dave Kahle A customer is someone who gives you money for what you have. So, the first time someone who has not purchased from you before gives you money for what you have, that person...
by Kahle Wisdom | Jan 29, 2018 | Christian-Kingdom issues, Christian-Leadership
“Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant. … 4 There are various gifts, but the same Spirit. 5 There are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. 6 There are various operations, but it is the same God who operates all of...
by Kahle Wisdom | Jan 29, 2018 | Christian-Kingdom issues, Christian-Leadership
From the very beginning of creation, all the way through the Bible to today, God established work, and by extension, business, as the primary occupation of mankind and the fundamental place where he would interact with man and develop a relationship with him. If you...
by Kahle Wisdom | Jan 18, 2018 | Podcasts, Christian-Kingdom issues, Christian-Leadership
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by Kahle Wisdom | Jan 3, 2018 | Christian-Kingdom issues, Christian-Leadership
Excerpted from The Good Book on Business by Dave Kahle(Wri-Art-Spir-86)It is the early moments of creation. God is busy at work, creating the universe, and has just created his most complex entity: Man. Or, more specifically, the man Adam. He is a special creature,...
by Kahle Wisdom | Jan 3, 2018 | Leadership-Sales Management, Christian-Leadership
In a previous post, I wrote that qualities of character in the CEO were a more important indicator of business success than the business model. In this, and the next few posts, I’m going to share those qualities that I believe mark a great business leader. First, a...
by Kahle Wisdom | Dec 6, 2017 | Christian-Kingdom issues, Christian-Leadership
“I practice my Christian faith when I involve myself and my family in the programs of the church. My business is my business – that’s something else. The two don’t have much to do with each other.” That comment expresses a pretty common view of the relationship...
by Kahle Wisdom | Nov 28, 2017 | Leadership-Entrepreneurs & Executives, Leadership-Sales Management, Christian-Leadership
“I have my own style of selling.” That is a remark I have heard a number of times, usually from relatively inexperienced salespeople. What they usually mean is something like this: “I don’t have any real system to what I do, I don’t want any scrutiny, and I probably...
by Kahle Wisdom | Oct 17, 2017 | Leadership-Sales Management, Christian-Leadership
“But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.” (Joshua 24:15) In his parting address to the Hebrews, whom he has led for most of his life, Joshua declares the commitment upon which he has lived his life. He will serve the Lord. Note that his commitment is...
by Kahle Wisdom | Oct 17, 2017 | Leadership-Sales Management, Christian-Leadership
“Can you boil down your advise to one word?” That’s what a seminar participant asked me. “No,” I said, “but I can boil it down to three: Focus, focus, focus.” I said that because I see ‘focus’ as the solution to a number of modern dilemmas. ...
by Kahle Wisdom | Sep 25, 2017 | Christian-Business, Christian-Kingdom issues, Christian-Leadership
Could there be more spiritual potential in your business than you have yet realized? Almost every Christian business owner, salesperson and executive has a firm grasp on the idea of stewardship – that everything in this world including our businesses, belongs to God,...
by Kahle Wisdom | Sep 11, 2017 | Leadership-Entrepreneurs & Executives, Leadership-Sales Management, Christian-Leadership
One of the biggest decisions a business makes is the decision on which market segment to focus. ‘Market segment’ is the term that describes a group of suspects and prospects who have something in common. For example, if you are a mechanic with an auto repair shop, you...
by Kahle Wisdom | Sep 11, 2017 | Leadership-Entrepreneurs & Executives, Leadership-Sales Management, Christian-Leadership
There are, in the world of sales and sales systems, certain practices that have such an enormous impact on the company and the market that they are in a special class of activities that call for executive involvement at the highest levels. One of that handful of...
by Kahle Wisdom | Sep 7, 2017 | Christian-Kingdom issues, Christian-Leadership
(This is the fourth in a series on mistaken beliefs and false paradigms that hinder us from developing our businesses to their full potential. See the others in the series here.) For much of my Christian life, I’ve struggled with a difficult and painful image...
by Kahle Wisdom | Aug 10, 2017 | Leadership-Entrepreneurs & Executives, Leadership-Sales Force, Leadership-Sales Management, Christian-Leadership
Question: The thing that distinguishes us from our competition is service. How do I make service more tangible to our customer? Answer: This is a great question because it is so common. Let’s put it into perspective. Believe it or not, almost every company I deal...
by Kahle Wisdom | Aug 7, 2017 | Christian-Kingdom issues, Christian-Leadership
Almost every Christian business owner, salesperson and executive has a firm grasp on the idea of stewardship – that everything in this world including our businesses, belongs to God, and we are just temporary stewards of it. “Everything,” of course, means everything –...
by Kahle Wisdom | Jul 24, 2017 | Leadership-Sales Management, Christian-Leadership
“Our business should make money so that we can give it away” – that’s the message our contemporary culture teaches us. Those of us who look for a higher purpose for our business find that message easy to accept. We see that message reinforced by a variety of different...
by Kahle Wisdom | Jul 24, 2017 | Leadership-Sales Management, Christian-Leadership
“For my whole life, I was led to believe that we were the richest country on earth. Now, I see that we are the poorest. It’s like my whole life has been wasted.” This comment comes from John, the 80-year old father of one of our Albanian foster children, who was...
by Kahle Wisdom | Jul 10, 2017 | Leadership-Sales Management, Christian-Leadership
Over lunch with one of my clients, he asked an unusually deep question: “In your training, do you try to instill new skills, or do you find you are more effective by removing the hindrances people have to using the skills they already have?” I was stunned. In...
by Kahle Wisdom | Jul 10, 2017 | Leadership-Sales Management, Christian-Kingdom issues, Christian-Leadership
I’m facing a big business decision – whether to invest a significant portion of my retirement funds into a new venture whose financial success is hardly assured. At the same time, last week I worked with a friend who is faced with a very similar decision – whether to...
by Kahle Wisdom | Jul 6, 2017 | Leadership-Sales Force, Leadership-Sales Management, Christian-Leadership
Remember John Delorean? He was the superstar General Motors executive who started the Delorean Motor Company. When the company began to falter, he was arrested and charged with complicity in a drug deal that some speculated was an attempt to raise money to prop up...
by Kahle Wisdom | Jun 28, 2017 | Leadership-Entrepreneurs & Executives, Leadership-Sales Force, Leadership-Sales Management, Christian-Leadership
I was speaking to a group of professional sales people in Johannesburg, South Africa, on the subject of integrity in business. At dinner later in the evening, my host, who had been sitting in the audience, sheepishly shared with me that several of the people seated...
by Kahle Wisdom | Jun 5, 2017 | Leadership-Entrepreneurs & Executives, Leadership-Sales Management, Christian-Kingdom issues, Christian-Leadership
Today I received over 209 email messages, had 35 postings on my Facebook page, uncountable listings on my Linkedin page, and several voice mail messages. This was after having methodically unsubscribed to legions of emails and registered on the “do not call” list. ...
by Kahle Wisdom | May 23, 2017 | Leadership-Entrepreneurs & Executives, Christian-Leadership
Here’s a story to which many of you can relate. We had an opening for an inside salesperson and took a chance on a young man who appeared to have the necessary aptitude and character, but who lacked any experience. He had been a social worker and was looking...
by Kahle Wisdom | May 11, 2017 | Leadership-Entrepreneurs & Executives, Leadership-Sales Force, Leadership-Sales Management, Christian-Leadership
Whether you are a small business person, or a professional sales person, you can utilize leverage — a powerful strategy — to take your sales performance to dramatically higher levels.. Leverage revolves around the idea of multiplying the effects of some...
by Kahle Wisdom | May 8, 2017 | Leadership-Sales Management, Christian-Leadership
One of the characteristics that distinguish a Biblical business from its competitors is the degree to which the executives of Biblical businesses embed prayer into the fabric of the business. This is an uncomfortable thought to many Christian business...
by Kahle Wisdom | Apr 27, 2017 | Leadership-Entrepreneurs & Executives, Leadership-Sales Management, Christian-Leadership
Stories can be powerful tools to shape behavior and dramatically communicate expectations. Wise executives continually seek for opportunities to capture and then relate a story that supports and illustrates the organization’s culture. If the story can be tied to a...
by Kahle Wisdom | Apr 17, 2017 | Leadership-Sales Force, Christian-Leadership
Decades ago, I almost lost my first professional sales position because of my Christian faith. “Being a Christian sales person is going to be tricky,” I concluded. While that may have been true in my young and immature mindset, over the years, I’ve...
by Kahle Wisdom | Mar 21, 2017 | Leadership-Entrepreneurs & Executives, Leadership-Sales Force, Christian-Leadership
“Plans fail when there is no counsel, but they succeed when advisers are many.“ (Proverbs 15:22) This is an often-quoted verse, a piece of advice from King Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived. While the advice doesn’t appear to be pointed only at business...
by Kahle Wisdom | Feb 20, 2017 | Leadership-Entrepreneurs & Executives, Leadership-Sales Management, Christian-Leadership
Before you respond by lecturing me on the wisdom of setting goals, you should know that I am committed to the process of goal setting as a best practice for a number of different business expressions. Goal-setting, for example, is at the heart of our Kahle Way® Sales...
by Kahle Wisdom | Dec 10, 2016 | Leadership-Entrepreneurs & Executives, Leadership-Sales Force, Leadership-Sales Management, Christian-Leadership
In a previous post, I wrote that qualities of character in the CEO were a more important indicator of business success than the business model. In this, and the next few posts, I’m going to share those qualities that I believe mark a great business leader. ...
by Kahle Wisdom | Nov 16, 2016 | Leadership-Sales Management, Christian-Leadership
In a previous post, I wrote that qualities of character in the CEO were a more important indicator of business success than the business model. That generated this series of posts describing those character traits that I believe are most conducive to business success....
by Kahle Wisdom | Nov 2, 2016 | Leadership-Entrepreneurs & Executives, Leadership-Sales Force, Leadership-Sales Management, Christian-Leadership
In a previous post, I wrote that qualities of character in the CEO were a more important indicator of business success than the business model. In this, and the next few posts, I’m going to share those qualities that I believe mark a great business leader. First, a...
by Kahle Wisdom | Oct 27, 2016 | Leadership-Sales Force, Leadership-Sales Management, Christian-Leadership
In a previous post, I wrote that qualities of character in the CEO were a more important indicator of business success than the business model. In this, and the next few posts, I’m going to share those qualities that I believe mark a great business leader. First, a...
