Excellence is a quality that many business leaders strive towards. But the world’s typical pursuit of excellence usually looks different than God’s unconventional view. For instance, the world usually believes that the longer and harder you work, the closer you get to excellence. God’s Word, however, commanded His people to work six days and rest one day. The world tends […]

For 15 years, Dan, a former investment banker, traveled the globe working on mergers and acquisitions. Dan worked 110 hours a week on a frequent basis striving for “the big money.” As he began seeing the financial fruit of those long hours, Dan realized it wasn’t making him any happier. Dan began looking for a role model in his industry […]

Anyone who has been in business for long knows that there are business cycles. There are bull markets and bear markets. There are seasons of prosperity and there are recessions. With over 10 years of prosperity, we recently ended the longest run of economic expansion. If there was ever a time to have been prepared for an economic famine, it […]

2020 should be a year that reminds many business leaders that excessive debt comes with consequences. According to the Financial Times, since the 1950s, business debt has been dramatically piling up on corporate balance sheets. With interest rates at an all-time low and considering the tax benefits for borrowing, many CEOs believed accumulating debt seemed reasonable. Borrowing money at less […]

An article by Fortune Magazine states, “The implication [of Coronavirus] is that companies will have to rethink, not tweak, their business models.” The pandemic has elevated the need for changes in business models to an extreme level in a short amount of time. Without warning, businesses were shut down, asked to create new ways of doing business without time to […]

My friend, Jay, had a passion to help with the needs of the ill, needy and children. As he pondered possible solutions, he realized that many large retail businesses have inventory that often gets wasted or destroyed due to inventory management issues. Agape Inventory Donation was birthed to be a conduit between the companies needing to move inventory and nonprofits […]

My friend, Larry, has worked hard to build a significant lawn care and tree service business with hundreds of employees and multiple locations. Yet, rather than sit in his office commanding the troops, Larry frequently goes out in the field trimming trees or helping a young employee with a lawn care treatment. He has discovered that by working closely with […]

If you’ve ever watched a TV show where a lion is hunting its prey, you will recognize the lion’s common practice of finding the slowest or weakest gazelle and isolating them. Once their prey is isolated, victory is easy. Our enemy also desires to isolate us so that we can be taken down morally, knowing that we are at our […]

In 1 Samuel 25, David and his men needed food. David’s men had been protecting the sheep of a wealthy Jew named Nabal. Therefore, David sent them to ask Nabal for food. In verse 11, Nabal said, “Shall I take my bread and my water and my meat that I have killed for my shearers and give it to men […]

A recent article by Fortune magazine business experts claims, “Many companies will need to rebalance their priorities, making additional resiliency measures as important to their strategic thinking as cost and efficiency.” Resiliency, due to coronavirus, is finding its way to the top of the priority list of strategic plans of businesses across the nation. Resiliency requires a level of flexibility […]