A topic that has captivated me for almost a decade is that of the culture found within faith-based organizations, both for profit and non-profit. These organizations often possess special assets, but they also face unusual challenges. This post briefly touches on both and puts forth an analogy of how a successful faith-based for-profit company might operate.
Though I think the analogy also fit non-profits, this will largely focus on the former, and by the description I mean a company that operates in a normal, secular industry but whose founder or culture is heavily intertwined with some form of religious faith.
I’ve had a fair amount of experience with several for-profit businesses that are heavily faith-based, in particular Christian. While in college I had a part-time internship with a company like this, have worked as an executive and in smaller roles for a for-profit company that had a high percentage of faith-based employees, and now own and run a small company that by and large fits my definition above.
