Honesty: We don’t really believe in what we say

This post originally appeared at petechristianbooks.com

Successful companies and their executives are not always honest about their intentions. They are telling us that “We don’t really believe in what we say”.

I have dealt with many who swore that they were trying to improve their business.

I guess I was too naive. When they told me they could change I believed them. It would only make sense that they would want to be successful. Why would you want to run a business that was failing? And why would they not want to improve? Because they were telling me, “We don’t really believe in what we say?.

Yet there are companies that continue to do harmful things every day.

They act as though it is not their fault, as though some evil hand is directing them to do these things. When faced with change they stick with what they have been doing. They reinforce that insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results.

I am sure you have an opinion about this. So do I.

Mine is that they don’t believe what they say in the first place. Maybe they are reading from the…