Recently I met with a successful business leader who told me that one of the hardest things for him is to “wait on the Lord.” He was ready to move forward with the next stage of his career, but God wouldn’t release him yet. Driven business leaders often struggle with waiting patiently on God’s direction instead of charging forward on ...
As a child I usually tried to be a peacemaker and avoid conflict. After decades in business, however, I’ve come to accept that there will be differences of opinion and misunderstandings that can easily result in broken relationships. It’s easy for these relationships to remain unreconciled leaving a bitter root of resentment. But God desires us to be peacemakers and ...
My daughter, Megan, recently led a Young Life team in Colorado. One of the campers had a dream of making it to the summit of the nearby mountain, but he was in a wheelchair with cerebral palsy. Working together with great pain and sacrifice, a dozen high school boys, carried this young man to the top of the mountain. As ...
In my book, “Unconventional Business,” I highlight four marketing challenges that many of us face in the marketplace in trying to do marketing with truth and love. The final marketing challenge is “Sponsoring Sin.” A friend of ours owns a consumer product company which frequently advertises on television and radio. Early on they discovered the importance of monitoring what their ...
In my book, “Unconventional Business,” I highlight four marketing challenges that many of us face in the marketplace in trying to do marketing with truth and love. The third challenge is “Purity.” The “Correct Craft” boat company realized that many of their competitors advertised their boats with sexy ads, but God led them to take a different direction. For the ...
In my book, “Unconventional Business,” I highlight four marketing challenges that many of us face in the marketplace in trying to do marketing with truth and love. The second challenge is “Poor Quality.” Following a trend in the 1980s of providing a cheaper alternative to the typical car rental business, I began buying used cars and renting them to local ...
In my book, “Unconventional Business,” I highlight four marketing challenges that many of us face in the marketplace in trying to do marketing with truth and love. This week I’ll address each of these four challenges, beginning with “Pricing.” In the 1980s, Mary Hudson’s business empire crumbled when she was convicted of tampering with the gasoline pump prices at her ...
During 1894, to enhance profits the Pullman Palace Car Company slashed the wages of its employees while requiring them to work 16 hour days. Pullman also controlled housing and necessities through their ownership of the local town. When George Pullman refused to listen to his employees concerns, the situation escalated into a national shutdown of the railroad system. Federal troops ...
In the early 1900s workplace conditions were dismal. Many industries were unsafe, paid less than a living wage, and required 12-hour days, 7 days a week. In 1909, with these unjust conditions as a backdrop, Labor Sunday was launched as a day when pastors preached on the value and dignity of work. This led to a federation of churches identifying ...
Olympic diver Steele Johnson, after receiving his first ever Olympic silver medal, provided some profound insight for all of us. Johnson proclaimed, “The fact that I was going into this event knowing that my identity is rooted in Christ and not what the result of this competition is, just gave me peace ... and it let me enjoy the contest." ...
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