Celebrate Success

Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the LORD. Exodus 15:1

It was the middle of the week, about two or three in the afternoon. Everyone in our little company of twenty employees was busy doing what they did, when the boss broke our concentration by walking through the office and asking everyone to join him in the accounting department.

When we arrived, he was standing in front of a table filled with cake and ice cream. “We are celebrating today,” he said, “because accounting has just closed the books on our company’s first-ever one-million-dollar month.”

He thanked us all for our part in making the company successful and, as he often did, shared his dreams for the future.

When was the last time you bought everyone lunch, declared “Jeans Day” in the middle of the week, or got the team together to publicly congratulate someone for a job well done?

People love being part of something that’s working, and they like pleasant surprises.