God is the author of the ultimate Win/Win. To know God is to know His perfect, holy, wise, and loving character. God is love. God courageously considers our needs. So much so that He allows us to do what is temporarily bad for us in order for us to surrender and turn back to Him. The Parable of Prodigal Son illustrates this reality and helps us understand God’s perfect, holy, wise, and loving character.

We were born to produce synergistic creativity in life and in work with people who are different from us. The best work involves the joining of differences — synergies of different people's gifts, ideas, backgrounds and experiences — to create something new that benefits the world.

Empathizing with the experiences of others means putting yourself in their shoes and taking them at their word. In this video Taylor Strickland highlights the importance of empathetic listening and provides practical guidance for how to improve our ability to understand others.

Taylor Strickland joins Howard to discuss the transformative power of empathetic listening. You’ll hear how seeking to understand the needs, wants, and desires of your coworkers and clients before projecting your needs, wants, or desires onto them creates deep relationships built on character and trust.

How do we hear from God and discern His will when it’s time to make big decisions? Terry Looper shares a four-step process for doing just that - a process he has learned and refined over thirty years as a Christian entrepreneur and founder of a multi-billion dollar company.

We seek first to understand because, knowing Jesus has provided for our every need, we desire to give other people what they truly need. Therefore, we can risk our words, reputations, and even our lives to better understand others in order to provide solutions that help them flourish.

Cultivating relationships with clients and coworkers that seek their mutual benefit, and not just our own, creates lasting impact. In this video, Tom Fowlkes from Deloitte Consulting and Will Walker from Walker Financial Management share stories about how they’ve applied this principle in their daily work.

This week Tom Fowlkes joins Howard to discuss how winning in business doesn’t mean that someone else is losing. We live in a world of abundance, not scarcity. You’ll hear how approaching daily decisions at work with this abundance mentality facilitates relationships of mutual benefit with clients and coworkers.

In business relationships, each party — vendor and client, employee and employer — must offer considerable strategic value to the other to create a win/win relationship. Win/Win thinking requires consideration and courage that flow from a life of character — character that is full of love, wisdom, and truth that combine to create an abundance informed long-term approach to life and work.