He will give you all you need from day to day if you live for him and make the Kingdom of God your primary concern. Matthew 6:33

During the second year of my career in investment banking, several of my colleagues and I left the company where we worked and assembled a new firm to compete in a niche of municipal finance that had not yet fully matured. In those early years we often remarked that our philosophy of management could be summarized as "revenues exceeding expenses." We soon discovered that being prosperous meant more than simply being profitable.

Every business enterprise must ultimately be profitable to accomplish its purposes. Yet simply earning a profit is an incomplete organizational objective. As owners we needed to concern ourselves with additional issues, such as employee benefits, staff development, and strategic planning. As time passed we became better managers, and our firm experienced impressive growth in both earnings and market presence. Had we focused only on profitability ...