Some years ago, while leading a workshop at a conference in Arizona, a local business owner asked the question, “are there no failed startup enterprises in the BAM world?” While I readily agreed, I was stimulated to think about the question in a more profound way. There certainly are gigantic risk factors in starting and […]
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I recently listened to Mike Baer’s interview of George Maru of Ambatana in Nairobi, Kenya. George as an environmental engineer is connected to Empower Hope of Kenya and articulated a term which is important in creating understanding in the BAM world. It is the “Forgotten Middle”. The term is well known in educational circles as
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Most of us realize that our God is a Creator-God, and He even gave mankind the ability and responsibility to create. Deuteronomy 8:18, specifically states that God gives us the ability to create wealth. As creators in the image of God, we create all kinds of things – a colorful flower bouquet; a crab cake;
This is graduation time in North America. My mind retreats some decades to when it was a privilege to give the commencement address at two different high schools. Now this week I am attending my second grandson’s graduation from high school. My advice for him comes first from the scriptures: The book of Proverbs, with
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