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I am always intrigued with titles like this one I saw recently: The Top 20 Reasons Startups Fail. Why would I not be interested? We are in the startup business; and I don’t like failure; and it is the start of a new year! The study analyzed more than 101 startup post mortems for reasons […]
IBEC’s purpose is to help build sustainable businesses through consultative expertise that changes lives and transforms communities. We help build! IBEC leadership and consultants are committed to partnering to get the job done. We want to work together in collaboration with other individuals and organizations – and we do. We help – we do not […]
There are many ways to say “Merry Christmas” or to give a Christmas greeting in the languages of the world. The greetings above represent “Merry Christmas” in most of the languages served by IBEC consultants. Despite cultural and linguistic differences there is one commonality – the Christ of Christmas! The continuity of Christ – from […]
Today I received a text from our youngest daughter Trudy, “Back on US soil! Just landed in DC.” I am very thankful today. She had been in harm’s way this past month, serving the 1.7 million refugees in Northern Iraq as an HR Director for her organization. Two days ago a suicide bomber killed several […]
Today I was contacted by a bright young man in the banking industry. A university graduate in banking and finance, he has just completed his second year with a major bank. He asked me, “How can I use my experience and training to help make a difference with what you are doing?” We talked for […]
This question is sometimes asked by North American kingdom business persons who own or manage businesses: “What can I offer as consultant, advisor, mentor or coach?” It is a natural question for business persons living and working in a very different context from a business startup in Asia, Africa or the Middle East. What is business […]
This article by IBEC Ventures Training Director Larry Sharp was originally published in CPN On Point. The last edition of CPN On Point presented an introduction to Business as Mission (BAM), as a means of gaining access to strategic and unreached places through building businesses worldwide. This article takes that discussion to the next and […]
Once upon a time four business people flew to a faraway country in Asia to observe and encourage three kingdom businesses. They came as learners but also ready to share suggestions and consulting expertise as requested. They represented a cumulative 90 years of business experience, a recent MBA graduate among them and all four were […]
The last two blogs referred to two of the three bottom lines of Business as Mission (BAM): profitability and sustainability; and secondly, the creation of value, particularly job creation. The third bottom line is the development of spiritual capital – making followers of Jesus. The concept of the Triple Bottom Line has been around since […]
Last week we began a three-part series on the Triple Bottom Line of Business as Mission (BAM).1 The first bottom line was that every business has a goal of profitability and sustainability. The second bottom line is the creation of value, particularly job creation. Mike Baer, in referencing the Kingdom of God, understands that the […]