Application Purpose Principle Passion Virtue Character Calling Leadership Grace Christ One’s calling¹ is his or her vocation, job, career or profession. But more than mere work, one’s calling invokes a passion for work, a drive to accomplish, excel or master…
Tag: market Christianity
Branding
Often the more a thing is discussed the less it is understood. Words have a point of diminishing return. That point is crossed when the effort to be clear and precise counts every tree standing, but misses the proverbial forest.…
The Christian Marketplace Movement
Book Titles As A Window Search: All Products Apparel & Accessories Baby Beauty Books Camera & Photo Cell Phones & Service Classical Music Computer & Video Games Computers DVD Electronics Gourmet Food Health & Personal Care Home & Garden Jewelry…
Board Room
Board Room More Than Money Bored Dumb Board Development Board Fundamentals Most organizational problems have their origin the board room, which means that the fix must also occur in the board room. Organizational effectiveness begins in the board room. The…
Board Development
Board Room More Than Money Bored Dumb Board Development Board Fundamentals This is the third in a series of articles that examine some of the analysis and solutions provided by the work of John Carver and his Policy Governance® model…
Good Design
Design (di’zIn): to plan or outline in general; determine upon and mark out the principal features or parts of, as a projected thing or act; plan; devise. Good design: the elegant implementation of purpose. The application of purpose and principles…
Appeal To Virtue
Application Purpose Principle Passion Virtue Character Calling Leadership Grace Christ Popularity and Responsibility Just about everyone knows that something is very wrong with the world in which we live. Problems are compounding everywhere. While we may be tempted to look…
Revaluation of Debt
I could title this post “The Jubilee Factor†because it is a simple observation about the teaching of the biblical Jubilee and how it speaks to the current world financial crisis. So, what is the Jubilee? The Jubilee year (Leviticus…
Financial Crisis Stimulus Hindsight
In hindsight, I’d like to offer an alternative analysis of the Great Recession (2008/2009): Real estate tycoons created a way to sell swamp land across the world. They bundled the swamp into the lawns of regular homes, which they sold…
Health Care/Insurance Reform
Why should government or businesses provide health care or retirement benefits at all? Think of Social Security: it began after the Great Depression as a way to provide for people so that such a situation would not happen again. People…