Co-Founder / Chairman & CEO, InsideWork
Allan Lunsford sparks Insidework’s vision and contributes much of its thought leadership. He is also President of Lunsford Group, a privately held investment holding company consisting of a series of privately held, independently owned entities in real estate, software, media, demographics, health care and the Internet. Lunsford Group — augmented with consulting — has served such distinguished clients as Sears, Roebuck and Co., Apple Computer, BuyDirect.com, TRW, Eastern College, Herman Miller, Joy Manufacturing, World Vision USA & International, Malaysian Industrial Development Agency (MIDA) and the Brunei Investment Agency.
The Middle Class at Risk
Harvard Law’s Elizabeth Warren chronicles the American middle class at risk in her Social Science Research Council paper, "Rewriting the Rules: Families, Money and Risk." Underneath the surface issues, usury raises its ugly head.
Is the Idea of "Marketplace Ministries" Biblical?
Can you imagine what would happen if all the entities that make up commerce were reshaped by people with a biblical worldview?
The eBay phenomenon is giving rise to a shift from an accumulation culture to an auction culture where a new norm of “temporary” ownership is taking hold. People are able to constantly “trade up” because they will simultaneously be selling off what they no longer want.
Cybercrime Goes Global
The New York Times reports that phishing is being replaced by Key-Loggers which watch what you type and send that data to thieves.
Looking for Patterns in the News
I think it was Karl Barth who said Christians should greet the day with the New York Times in one hand and the Bible in the other. This may be the earliest reference to Information Grazing.
InsideWork is finding a tribe of business people whose worldveiw and business practices are progressively shaped by biblical spirituality.
Working As If Being There Matters
People are either glad our companies are in town (county, state, region, nation, planet) or they’re not. What are you doing to ensure that your neighbors will stand up for you because they’re glad when they hear your name.
State of the Economy
As President Bush faces Congress and the American people tonight, the Pew Research Center finds about one third of Americans (34%) rank current economic conditions as excellent or good.
The Art of the Long View
"If you could live forever, would you spend the rest of eternity doing everything? Hang gliding? Mountain climbing without a rope? Or cloistered in a room with books, afraid to take any risks?"
We Just Live in It
InsideWork is at MacWorld in San Francisco this week — soaking it up, looking for patterns, making meaning.
Making Meaning in Our Messages
This is the season when families, friends and businesses exchange Holiday Greetings. Whether we are wishing a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Kwanza Greetings or just Best Wishes in the New Year, we have a long tradition of greeting cards
The Scriptural Roots of Commerce
Al Lunsford is convinced InsideWork’s most significant offerings are built around helping business people reform their worldviews around biblical perspectives.
Who Hasn't Felt Like This?
Speaking of personal meaning in the workplace, ToothpasteforDinner.com provides the picture worth a thousand words.
Abraham Lincoln Manifesto of Gratitude
In the middle of bitter civil war, Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a day of national thanksgiving.
Ethics And Technology: What's Possible v. What's Right
Brian Quinton’s blog post about sparse attendance at an ethics forum at the Direct Marketing Association’s DMA•05 Show got InsideWork thinking about trust in business.
1909 - 2005
Peter Drucker, born November 19, 1909, died November 11, 2005
