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The following is an extract from an article citing recent comments from Nobel Peace prize winner, Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank. Certainly job creation, poverty reduction and social enterprises which focus on the Quadruple Bottom Line (which includes making followers of Jesus) are foundational to Kingdom thinking and missional businesses. World’s growing inequality […]
My wife and I just returned from a two-week vacation in Maui, our first visit to that nostalgic island. While there we attended a slack-key guitar concert, coordinated by Grammy-award winning artist, George Kahumoku, Jr. with guitarists Peter DeAquino and Kawika Kahiapo. We enjoyed classical Hawaiian music but also heard historical details of the music […]
Situational Awareness is the ability to identify, process and understand critical pieces of information about what is happening with regard to the critical ‘mission’. Recent official reports of the cause of several aviation disasters have focused on ‘situational awareness’. In short, it means being aware of what is going on around you. For example, this […]
From time to time I am asked an important question. “I am interested in serving in a Kingdom business overseas, where can I go to prepare myself?” Some of the suggestions below are for those who are entrepreneurs, some are for others with a robust business background while others will be helpful to those with […]
IBEC board member, Dave Kier is the owner of a sizable feed company in Iowa. He writes blogs like this for his employees five days a week. He is a wonderful example of a Kingdom business owner that keeps the Quadruple Bottom Line front and center. This writing of a few weeks ago reminds us […]
As I write this the University of Washington Husky football team is preparing to play the best college football team in the nation, Alabama’s Crimson Tide, on New Year&’s eve. It is a daunting challenge. But the Huskies earned it, finishing #4 in the college voting and earning a playoff spot along with Alabama, Ohio […]
A University of Scranton study suggests that 25% of New Year’s Resolution goals go by the wayside in the first week of the year and only 48% of people are sticking to them six months later. Only 8% actually achieve the goals during that year. I think that the New Year’s resolutions tradition as we […]
This month of December is a month for giving. We give gifts to each other; we reflect on the gift of Jesus to humanity; and we think about year-end giving to various charities. In mid-December Patrice Tsague, CEO of the Nehemiah Project proposed that business is a gift and he stated twenty reasons. If you […]
Can you hear the tune with this line from the famous, “Silver Bells” by Bing Crosby? Yes, it is Christmas time again – in the city – and in the country – and in most places in the Western world. But most of the world’s population does not live in the Western world – they […]
This week I went Christmas shopping at Pike Place Market on Seattle’s waterfront. I stopped at the original Starbucks ® store to listen to a dressed-up Santa singing Christmas carols (note the original logo on this storefront which dates back to 1971). As I stopped to listen, the old Santa was singing “Joy to the […]