Practicing The Law of E.F. Hutton with My Wife

This week’s devotions from the John Maxwell Leadership Bible focus on the fifth law (of twenty-one) of leadership—the Law of E.F. Hutton.

When I was growing up in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the brokerage firm E.F. Hutton became well-known for its advertising campaign.

E.F. Hutton’s commercials depicted people out for a jog, aboard a train, or at a dinner party. The conversation would inevitably turn to the stock market. And that’s when one person would say to the other “My broker is E.F. Hutton. And E.F. Hutton says….”

Then, the rest of the world would fall silent. Joggers would halt in mid-stride. Commuters on board the train would put down their newspapers. Dinner guests would cease passing the green bean casserole. Everything came to a screeching halt. The commercials all ended by saying, “When E.F. Hutton talks, people listen.”

The Law of E.F. Hutton was on display through the prophet Samuel, and it works well in my own life too!

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Building Kingdom-Minded Organizations

How to Build Kingdom-Minded Orgs

After my proposal to teach a Workshop for the Christian Leadership Alliance’s 2015 Outcomes Conference (click here for more information) was accepted, I looked at some of the other presenters. Mark A. Griffin of “In HIS Name HR” caught my attention.

I read his book How To Build “Kingdom Minded” Organizations in October and called him for a mentoring conversation. Following a career covering more than twenty years in human resources (HR) at both Fortune 500 (Kodak, Quaker Oats, and Merck) and small and mid-sized companies, Mark started his own HR consulting firm. We had a great conversation and made a connection.

Griffin notes that what made him decide to leave his corporate job and name his firm “In HIS Name HR, Christian Business Consulting” was his reflection upon Matthew 25:14–30, which says, “His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’”

Griffin’s book provides—as he puts it—good news for tumultuous times, giving employees hope and a future in this upside down world.

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