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Sometimes, your employees rise to greater heights than you. Judy, Philip’s wife, once worked for me in the USA, then they married and moved to Asia and as a team they started a bakery and coffee shop in a major city in South Asia. It takes a long time. 8 years ago, they wondered if it …
Freedom Café: Seven BAM lessons from a Growing Bakery and Coffee Business Read More »
Words such as freedom, liberty and independence have a nuanced ambiguity inherent in their meaning. For example, are we free from something or to something or both? Is liberty unrestricted or restrictive, begging the question of liberty’s true meaning and value? Is the meaning of independence specific to a historical event, or is it something …
Let’s talk about how AI is everywhere right now. The subject of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is pretty much on all news mediums. I looked up the definition in the Kids section of Merriam Webster where it states, “The power of a machine to imitate intelligent human behavior.” While many people champion the potential of AI, …
AI and the issue of what is real in Business as Mission Read More »
It is exciting for me to see the product of much hard work on the part of my good friend Mark Polet and his colleagues. Mark and his wife, Terri, are true BAMers in Asia, dynamic thought leaders, and friends of IBEC. BAMGlobal.org has published three pieces in this series (read them along with this Part …
Environmental Care and Creation Stewardship (A Business as Mission Priority) Read More »
Several hundred from all over the world attended the conference on April 27. The following few quotes represent many more in an excellent program led by Mats Tunehag, Jo Plummer, and Joao Mordomo. We chose to do a Kingdom Business not because we had to, but because it embedded us into the community (Josiah in …
Memorial Day is an important day for a nation like the United States. It is a day to remember and honor those who died while serving in the nation’s military. The day originated after the Civil War where more lives were lost than any other US war (620,000). Memorial Day is different than Veterans Day …
There was something which I thought about during the “March Madness” this year. It was this: if someone had to describe you at work in one sentence – what would they say? My wife and I enjoyed watching the women’s college basketball championships this year and particularly the journey and achievements of one young lady, …
“She makes everyone around her better” (a lesson for every Business as Mission company) Read More »
Ever since I heard Craig, the founder and long-time CEO of Ibex, speak on the business woman of Proverbs 31 I have been intrigued by the passage. I have since discovered hundreds of publications online on this virtuous woman who was not only a wife but also a mother and a business person. Did you …
Happy Mother’s Day to a Business Woman – Proverbs 31! Read More »
The word ‘repurpose’ is relatively new in the English language with the first known use dating only back to 1984. It means to give a new purpose or use to. What if you had over 100 acres of prime foothills1 farmland in beautiful Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), a small land-locked monarchy in southern Africa? What if …
Business as Mission at the Lima Farm – Repurposed for the Glory of God Read More »
A recent headline in the Harvard Business Review caught my attention. The subtitle screamed, “Companies operate in an increasingly complex world: Business environments are more diverse, dynamic, and interconnected than ever – and far less predictable.”1 And if that is true in North America, it must be even greater for start-ups in the overseas arena. …
The Complexity of Operating Social Enterprises Abroad Read More »