Sunday, July 11, 2010
At 9:43am last Sunday morning I had just wrapped up eating breakfast with Brandi at the McDonald’s on our corner. A well known leader was going to be manning the podium at a church near our house. I haven’t visited in several years, so between bites of Southern Style Chicken Biscuit I grabbed my iPhone and Googled the church’s name to hunt for service times.
The first line in Google’s search summary read: “Woodview Church*. Space is limited and on a first come basis” [Emphasis theirs]. Really? What a first impression.
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Thursday, December 24, 2009
I would like to put forth a suggestion for solving a number of the world’s greatest humanitarian problems. It is neither novel nor complex. However, if implemented, it would without question save millions of lives, increase the world’s collective wealth, and eliminate a tremendous amount of unnecessary suffering.
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Saturday, October 24, 2009
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.
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