Finding someone with integrity, that is beyond reproach, seems impossible in today’s online public world. Even the Bible’s pages are full of characters who were murderers, adulterers and deceivers. But there was one role model we should study and try to emulate, Daniel. When Daniel’s peers became jealous and decided to destroy him, they unsuccessfully looked for his weakness. But ...
2020 should be a year that reminds many business leaders that excessive debt comes with consequences. According to the Financial Times, since the 1950s, business debt has been dramatically piling up on corporate balance sheets. With interest rates at an all-time low and considering the tax benefits for borrowing, many CEOs believed accumulating debt seemed reasonable. Borrowing money at less ...
An article by Fortune Magazine states, “The implication [of Coronavirus] is that companies will have to rethink, not tweak, their business models.” The pandemic has elevated the need for changes in business models to an extreme level in a short amount of time. Without warning, businesses were shut down, asked to create new ways of doing business without time to ...
My friend, Jay, had a passion to help with the needs of the ill, needy and children. As he pondered possible solutions, he realized that many large retail businesses have inventory that often gets wasted or destroyed due to inventory management issues. Agape Inventory Donation was birthed to be a conduit between the companies needing to move inventory and nonprofits ...
My friend, Larry, has worked hard to build a significant lawn care and tree service business with hundreds of employees and multiple locations. Yet, rather than sit in his office commanding the troops, Larry frequently goes out in the field trimming trees or helping a young employee with a lawn care treatment. He has discovered that by working closely with ...
In 1 Samuel 25, David and his men needed food. David’s men had been protecting the sheep of a wealthy Jew named Nabal. Therefore, David sent them to ask Nabal for food. In verse 11, Nabal said, “Shall I take my bread and my water and my meat that I have killed for my shearers and give it to men ...
A recent article by Fortune magazine business experts claims, “Many companies will need to rebalance their priorities, making additional resiliency measures as important to their strategic thinking as cost and efficiency.” Resiliency, due to coronavirus, is finding its way to the top of the priority list of strategic plans of businesses across the nation. Resiliency requires a level of flexibility ...
Years ago, I listened as a bank customer became loud and verbally abusive to one of our personal bankers. He said hateful things that crushed her spirit and had her in tears. Greg, our bank president, heard what was going on and intervened. He rebuked the customer, handed the customer a check for the balance in his account, and told ...
In her book, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou said one should be “hoping for the best, prepared for the worst and unsurprised by anything in-between.” In most business environments, positive thinking and hoping for the best are talked about, as is being prepared for the future. But being unsurprised is seldom talked about. The concept of ...
A recent article from the US Chamber of Commerce suggests, “Many businesses are asking for customers to help mitigate the cost of keeping their staff (and patrons) safe. Sometimes it’s in the form of a clearly stated COVID-19 surcharge, often between 3% and 5%, to cover the cost of things like masks and gloves.” No doubt the costs to reopen ...
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