This week we’re discussing the topic of Unconventional Business Leaders. Unconventional Business Leaders pursue excellence God’s way. The world often strives for perfection and personal glory, while an Unconventional Business Leader strives for excellence and deflecting glory to God. A local company was known for providing an excellent service to the community. Their true motive was for God to receive ...
This week we’re discussing Unconventional Business Leaders. Unconventional Business Leaders are people who cherish relationships. Paul was a business owner who admits he used to be a tyrant. Over the years he developed a philosophy that his employees owed him, and that Paul didn’t owe them anything, but, a paycheck. After working through our “FIRE in the Workplace” study, Paul ...
This week we’re discussing Unconventional Business Leaders. Unconventional Business Leaders are people with integrity. While the world often focuses on doing only what’s legal, God’s standard is much higher. He desires our ethical decisions to be moral and beyond reproach. A friend of mine had a minority stockholder in his business that had accused him of shortchanging her financially on ...
This week we’re discussing the value of becoming what we call an Unconventional Business Leader. Unconventional Business Leaders are people with courageous faith. Their faith drives their decisions, and also impacts those around them. When challenged by God to deed his entire company over to a foundation to fund evangelism, although this plan didn’t make sense, Stanley Tam took that ...
The Barna Group’s research discovered that 20% of practicing Christians believe that their meaning and purpose are based only on “earning as much as possible so you can make the most of life.” God wants more for us. Yesterday, we discussed that only 8 million people have a biblical worldview at work. That leaves 147 million working without the timeless ...
When we apply Barna’s research, out of 155 million people now in the workforce, only 8 million approach life with a biblical worldview. For almost 20 years I worked in a variety of workplaces before I ever experienced a boss who not only had a biblical worldview, but also applied it to business decisions. Because that man applied God’s Word ...
In February of 2013, Phil and his management team decided to pursue God and see what would happen in their business. They agreed to spend a year using the Bible and prayer to drive personal and professional growth. The results have been beyond what could have been imagined: A peaceful, productive workplace. Depression and other mental and physical health problems ...
Have you ever forced yourself to the front only to be pushed to the back? I wonder how many people in the front were invited and how many pushed their way up? We’re wired to want to be seen. After all, if we spend a lifetime struggling, shouldn’t we expect a position, a trophy, or our story in the news? ...
Bruce was meeting with Terry, whom he had not seen since Terry had launched a new business. When Bruce asked Terry how the new business was going, Terry quietly said, “It didn’t make it.” Bruce was crushed! “What are you going to do?” he asked. Terry said, “I’m going to pray and trust God for what’s next.” In that moment, ...
Cary Summers, President of the Museum of the Bible located in Washington D.C., shared about the remarkable journey his team had in taking a 430,000 square foot refrigerated warehouse and converting it into the 3rd largest museum in the city. Rather than use standard protocols with a hired contractor, they asked the contractor to assemble crews to work 24 hours ...
Equipping Others to Do Work Differently
