On today’s episode, we’re on the road connecting with Bryant Ambelang, President and CEO of NatureSweet, the largest greenhouse producer of tomatoes in North America. Bryant shares with us the ways he has cared for his employees by doing a better job of connecting their purpose and passions to their work.
Read MoreTo start the week, we check out a great documentary from RightNow Media. The story of NatureSweet shows that there's real power in people. The best solutions to communal problems is often the very people of the community.
Read MoreOriginally published by FORBES — This article by Travis Bradberry (author of Emotional Intelligence 2.0 and President of TalentSmart) gives helpful tips about dealing with toxic people, ranging from ‘setting boundaries’ to ‘having a support system’ to even ‘watching your caffeine intake.’
Read More“In this post, my aim is to encourage founders of businesses who want to bring God’s kingdom into the foundation of their business and their everyday operation. I’ll use my story of founding, building and selling a B2B software company, VendorHawk, as the context for my ponderings on what it means to be a “faithful founder.” Some lessons are driven by my failures…”
Read MoreThere's a simple reason why manual laborers are called "blue-collar": The color blue, it turns out, hides dirt better than the white seen in office buildings. But "blue collar" defines more than work apparel, of course. It defines industry, even a way of life. And its stereotypes are often unflattering.
But a metal products manufacturer in Colorado is working to undermine those stereotypes, right on the shop floor.
Read MoreIt wasn’t until Mike Sharrow sat around a table of entrepreneurs at a country club in Austin, Texas in the summer of 2010 that he found humble, hungry and faithfully smart peers truly wrestling with how to follow Jesus in the very fabric of business.
Read MoreI went to an all boys Jesuit prep school in Baltimore and have said a fair amount of "Our Fathers" and "Hail Marys" in both English and Latin to be suspect of scripted prayers. But when William came to the team and suggested that we have a "Sovereign's Capital Prayer," I was open to it, and then when I read and prayed it, I was hooked.
Read MoreFaith-and-work content consistently beats the drum of affirming that marketplace vocations are as important to God as professional ministry. That message is crucial, as resources like this one give those of us with non-church giftings the confidence to pursue our callings. But we can’t stop there. Even if all believers in the marketplace one day know that our vocations matter, we still need to understand why. Otherwise we may run successful businesses guilt-free, but miss the motivation and focus that come from knowing our place in God’s story.
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