God cares about honesty in the workplace; your business is his business. Proverbs 16:11 (TM)

    I’m partner in a consulting firm that was founded on the principles of God’s Message. In fact, it’s in our mission statement. A few years ago a member of our group was double checking some old data and realized that a minor error had resulted in the wrong data being given to a client. We also realized that the client had publicly used that piece of data in communicating about some of their business efforts.

    It would have been very easy to let it slide. It was tempting to just move on and let it be. I mean, really…come one…it was just a small mistake, right? Who will ever know?

    God would. We would. We immediately admitted to the mistake, knowing that it might jeopardize the relationship with one of our largest and fastest growing clients. It wasn’t fun. We rectified the mistake and wrote off a large research project to help make up for it.

    The following year we did more business with that client than ever before, and they continue to give us more business. We didn’t bank on that being the outcome of our admission. Nevertheless, we knew that we had to stay true to our mission and trust God to take care of the rest.

    He’s pretty good that way.
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