Strategic Planning

Psalm 19 Insights: Part I

2025-06-30T12:42:14-05:00July 14th, 2025|Tags: , , |

According to the American Bible Society’s State of the Bible 2025 report, Bible users have declined from 50% during the pandemic to 41%. Worse yet, the level of basic knowledge that even many evangelical Christians have about the Bible is very concerning.  Yet, the Bible is such a valuable source of wisdom for business leaders. Many prosperous leaders have credited ...

Inter-Dependence Day

2025-06-21T20:33:33-05:00July 4th, 2025|Tags: , , |

In 1776, our Founding Fathers grounded their argument for independence from Great Britain in the declaration: “That all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.” They may have declared their independence from Britain, but at the same time, they were noting their interdependence upon their Creator.   Many people break away from employers ...

Laddering

2025-06-19T16:41:41-05:00July 3rd, 2025|Tags: , , |

In a Harvard Business Review article titled “The Power of Mattering at Work,” the authors introduced a profound way to help your teammates realize that their work matters. They labeled the concept laddering.  This concept originated when NASA was trying to put a man on the moon. One of NASA’s leaders, Owen Maynard, wrote on blackboards, “Ladder to the Moon.”   ...

Abundance or Scarcity

2025-05-29T10:27:45-05:00June 30th, 2025|Tags: , , |

In the book of Ruth, Boaz is a generous man who abides by God’s mandates. For instance, Boaz did not reap his fields all the way to the edge so that the poor could gather the leftovers.  Boaz demonstrated an abundance mentality that unfortunately far too few business leaders embrace. A scarcity mindset, however, says I might need all the ...

Is Your Head in the Sand?

2025-05-29T09:18:41-05:00June 24th, 2025|Tags: , , |

Kathy and I hired a contractor whom we respected to do some work for us. Unfortunately, when problems occurred with his team’s performance, we began having trouble with the contractor responding to our concerns.  We needed to have some tough conversations, but we were delayed week after week. It seemed our contractor had “stuck his head in the sand,” hoping ...

Misplaced Trust

2025-05-26T12:41:04-05:00June 17th, 2025|Tags: , , |

Following the driven career example set by his father, Eric saw his job at the property development company as the means to build the wealth he had been taught would define his personal success. So, he was devastated when the company shut its doors, forcing him to start over. But he took advantage of the humbling experience to rebuild his ...

Financial Conflict

2025-05-26T11:31:08-05:00June 13th, 2025|Tags: , , |

Acts 19 describes the apostle Paul’s disruption to the city of Ephesus. Paul's testimony about Jesus turned many away from the local cults, threatening the income of the silversmiths who were creating statues for idol worship. These craftsmen could not hear Paul’s message because they were too fixated on how it impacted their work.  Jesus warned in Matthew 6:24 that ...

Preparing the Next Generation

2025-05-24T12:51:50-05:00June 5th, 2025|Tags: , , |

Unconventional Business Network has been partnering with two local Christian universities. We are excited to help students learn, prior to their career launch, why God’s Word is a great tool for business.   For many years, I’ve helped business leaders later in their career embrace God’s purpose for their work. Then, I can train them on God’s time-tested principles that can ...

The Uniqueness Trap

2025-04-30T21:34:45-05:00May 22nd, 2025|Tags: , , |

A Harvard Business Review article titled, The Uniqueness Trap, discovered that many project managers believe their new project to be so unique that the processes need to be built from scratch. This requires significant resources spent creating brand new systems and processes.   These researchers discovered, however, that it’s rare that these projects haven’t been done by someone else previously. Taking ...

Investing Saved Time

2025-04-30T20:57:10-05:00May 20th, 2025|Tags: , , |

According to a University of Lausanne Switzerland study, managers that used Artificial Intelligence saved on average two hours and 46 minutes a week. But thirty-eight percent of those managers admitted that they squandered at least half of their time savings on unproductive activities.  For those managers who didn’t squander the time saved, they typically just did more of the same ...

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