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I just looked out my office window on this sunny day in mid-July. Our little town of 2,000 residents is swarming with about 10,000 tourists who have come to the largest outdoor quilt show in North America. It is amazing! Thousands of people; overweight dogs on leashes; women with gigantic handbags; a restored 1931 Model […]
WATER! I never thought much about it. I was born and raised on Canada’s west coast with rainwater and lakes all around. I lived for 21 years in the Amazon rain forest! I suffered the rainy winters of Seattle for five years. I can see the snow pack on the Cascade mountains from where I […]
Photo credit: Kris Krüg, some rights reserved. I just returned from a week in Alberta, Canada where ice hockey excitement ran high with Calgary winning the first round of the National Hockey League playoffs. It reminded me of my hockey days, playing minor hockey in Alberta, even playing in the Calgary Saddledome where the Calgary […]
An indelible image in my mind while growing up in northern Canada was of grown men sleeping in our town’s Greyhound bus station with no place to go and nothing to eat. Years later while living in tropical Brazil our family saw poverty as we had never seen it before. As I have traveled the […]
Last week I proposed the Noonan definition of a bribe as “an inducement improperly influencing the performance of a public function meant to be gratuitously exercised” (The History of Bribery). That definition then begs the question of what is proper and improper. Considering biblical culture and law, our own culture and law and the host culture […]
To pay a bribe or not to pay a bribe? Is that really a question? Today I will expand on an important issue that I began in my February 1, 2015 blog, Ethics and integrity in cross cultural business. In it I referred to a rather lengthy document on the subject of ethics and integrity in […]
“How you see your future is much more important than how you see your past.” Zig Ziglar “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson This is the time of year when one hears comments like, “I can’t believe another year […]
Entrepreneur and IBEC Board member, Dave Kier reflects on purpose in what we do. At this time of year, young entrepreneurs may wonder if all the work and uncertainty are worth it. They may be trying to live one day at a time, having lost the vision to “change the world”. The story that Dave […]
Last week Dave Kier surfaced the question of “Leadership” versus “Followership”. He drew a distinction between the founder (or entrepreneur) in a business and a manager. He talked about leaders and followers. In Part 2 of this theme we consider the importance of all types in the development of a Kingdom business team. Malcolm Gladwell […]
Again we share the insightful thoughts of entrepreneur David Kier, owner of DFS Feeds and an IBEC board member. His thoughtful wisdom reveals an important concern for Business as Mission start-ups: do we emphasis the entrepreneurial leader at the expense of the business builder? This is Part 1 of a two part series on the importance […]