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The tail is wagging the dog. Proclaiming the year of the Lord’s favor does not require a 501(C)(3) corporation. The kingdom of God is not infrastructure dependent. At $347,000 per baptism, maybe it’s time to rethink Church.
BBL Forum (BBL) is a member-based organization comprised of qualified Christian CEOs, business owners and company presidents.
Dan Wooldridge notes that T.S. Eliot in his Choruses from The Rock though written in 1934 still peels back the veneer of modern business and work life to expose its emptiness.
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David Warsh has given us a non-technical survey of the theories of developmental economics from Adam Smith's great work by a similar name down to the present day.
Advertising Age (Adage.com, June 10, 2008) cites a study showing “68% of consumers believe companies are greenwashing or overstating their green claims.” We all know what happens when customers believe we’re blowing smoke at them.
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Sitting in front of me was an old Indian coolie with gnarled, bare legs around which varicose veins entwined themselves like creepers on the branch of a tree. Those who know the Orient will be familiar with his type. As the preacher said the words "God is in your hands", [...]
Douglas Hyde
The new look at InsideWork is more than cosmetic. You're looking at Day One in the third iteration of InsideWork — reengineered from the core out to deliver our third generation of content.
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The gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. And a man will worship something - have no doubts about that, either. He may think that his tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of his heart - but it will out. That which dominates will determine his life and character. [...]
Paul Marshall (p. 195)
Your time is limited...how are you going to spend it?
Dan Wooldridge is convinced that work is not merely the means to an end; good work is well worth doing for its own sake.
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InsideWork's Geoff Finch, just back from Africa, offers a thoughtful reviews of Giles Bolton's, Africa Doesn’t Matter: How the West Has Failed the Poorest Continent and What We Can Do About It. Spoiler alert: Africa matters.
Dan Wooldridge points out four things that jetBlue is doing to enable it to successfully respond to its recent crisis that stranded passengers on the runway for 11 hours.
As our colleagues Sam Nguyen and Peter Ha decompress after Apple's World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco, we note an interesting coincidence in the computing world. No doubt techies already know this, but two important things happened this week.
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But I think that the things we have come to care about are insignificant when placed on the scale that Dostoyevsky, or Camus, or Tolstoy, or Kierkegaard, or Kafka, or the Old Testament, or the New Testament, or Rollo May would use. The problem is, Sarah, we're just not very serious people these days. [...]
Michael E. Gerber
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Dan Wooldridge recommends reading this article by Margaret Atwood on the history and meaning of debt.
Bernard Moon explores the certainty of uncertainty and the necessity of constructing a worldview robust enough to be honestly humble.
I simply argue that the Cross be raised again at the center of the market–place as well as on the steeple of the church I am recovering the claim that Jesus was not crucified in a cathedral between two candles, but on a cross between two thieves; on the town garbage–heap; at a crossroad so cosmopolitan that they had to write his title in Hebrew and in Latin and in Greek. [...]
George MacLeod
Dan Wooldridge follows up on Jim Hancock's post on Enron: Innovation Corrupted with thoughts on how worldview trumps values in decisionmaking and the impact that has on personal and corporate life.
For InsideWork the question was, “So when’s the last time you heard a sermon on cash flow?”
Not money—not giving or tithing or alms or stewardship or benevolence, but cash flow, receivables, write-downs and balance sheets. InsideWork's Al Lunsford recalls where we came from and points to where we're headed.
Bill Maher's Religulous
David Myers assesses Bill Maher's documentary film, Religulous, and comes away longing for a humble spirituality that, worshiping God with open minds as well as open hearts, creates an alternative to both purposeless scientism and dogmatic fundamentalism.
Dan Wooldridge writes that the legendary Seattle restaurant, Canlis, is a model of the integration of a biblical worldview with world-class business innovation.
No Wonder We Don’t Understand the Meaning of Work!
Commentary on the marketing tone of a Christian publisher
Dan Wooldridge protests the idea that those who have the "proper" understanding of the meaning of work are in the Christian pulpits and publishing houses.
Every fall, Beloit College publishes a Mindset List to remind college lecturers -- and those of us who employ workers from the emerging generation -- what college freshmen can't know in any firsthand way.
That’s why The Scriptural Roots of Commerce — the SRC — is so important to us. I used to think of the SRC as a sophisticated Bible study for business people. I don’t think that anymore. The Scriptural Roots of Commerce is not a “Bible Study” in the traditional sense .
Al Lunsford is beginning to be concerned about Christian Businesses showing up in Christian Business Directories — use the word Christian as a marketing term . . . You can trust us; we’re a Christian company . . . And don't get him started on the marketplace as a mission field...
In this final part of a series on best practices, Dan Wooldridge points out that chasing best practices by definition demonstrates that you are lagging. He urges us to move toward the front by developing next practices.
When we leave our legacy in the hands of others, we must look beyond their competency, and into their hearts.
No Problem!
InsideWork's Geoff Finch is headed for some presentations to the finance ministers of a couple of countries that only a few years ago were dedicated socialist regimes. His underlying message to them was going to be that a free market/private enterprise system is a better model than a centrally planned and publicly operated economy. Now he's not so sure he should cite the shining example of the US-style private markets to support his thesis. So what does he present as a good working model?
The current economic crisis is one dramatic earthquake that signals fundamental and massive shifts in the world's "tectonic plates." Globalization, technology, and innovation have outpaced systems created in the last century. One of these shifting "plates" is the rise of Asia.
Dan Wooldridge reflects on some questions suggested by Max DePree in Leadership Jazz that followers should ask of leaders.
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