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Here are seven questions that can provide you with a framework for a good idea: Are you passionate about it? Do you have the gifts, skills, and experience to carry it out? Is it unique, and can you monetize it? Is there a growing market for the idea? Does the idea align with your calling?

As I have travelled around the country, given seminars in churches, schools, various small groups, and taught full courses in four colleges/universities, I have heard many comments which have intrigued me at best, and disturbed me at worst.  I was reflecting on some of them recently and share them with you here, with my perspective

I remember when one of our kids questioned everything with “Why” when he was a toddler.  He even continued into his teen years.  We learned to take advantage of his curiosity and use it as a “teaching moment”.  He became an avid learner. Why should a BAM practitioner continually listen carefully and ask good questions?

I read lots of stuff on entrepreneurialism and even teach a class in college on the subject.  Recently, I discovered an article by an entrepreneur which covers it in a succinct and accurate manner.  The author, Diane Bryant, introduces it with this paragraph in the Sept 21, 2022, issue of Fast Company magazine. After a

Last year, IBEC Board member Don Simmons, CFP published a book which everyone should read.  It is entitled The Steward Investor – Investing God’s Resources for Eternal Impact. Don has over thirty years of experience in asset management and knows the power of investing in redemptive businesses to build people and communities.  He is an

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

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,

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