B4T Blog
Greg M, Patrick Lai, and guest bloggers write about the joys, challenges, and rewards that come with taking the Gospel to the least reached through real business.
TESTING & TRIALS
The parable is told of a farmer who owned an old mule who accidentally fell into a well. After carefully assessing the situation, the farmer decided that neither the mule nor the well was worth saving. So, he called his neighbors together and got them to haul dirt to...
DISCIPLESHIP IS DISCIPLINE
When one of your employees is consistently late or talks trash about others, what do you do? Do you let it slide because she is a top performer? Do you make excuses for her because she might not know better? Do you fire her so as to send a message to the rest of your...
HIRING WORKERS
Many B4Ters have trouble hiring the right person for the right role. Do not be over-confident about your interviewing skills. Invite Jesus to be a part of every interview and review each applicant with Him. From the outset establish which traits the job demands to...
OBEDIENCE OR RESULTS?
A man was sleeping one night in his cabin when suddenly his room filled with light, and God appeared. The Lord told the man he had work for him to do and showed him a large rock in front of his cabin. The Lord explained that the man was to push against the rock with...
INTEGRITY
The following has been contributed by a B4Ter working in the Arab world. I recently came across the following Warren Buffet quote and thought I should try to find a way to write something about it, just for the sake of exposure to the quote itself. "We look for three...
INTEGRATING FAITH & WORK
The following is contributed by a B4Ter in the Middle East. In his book, Prosperity, Colin Mayer gives a high compliment to the Quakers. Did you know that the Quakers introduced the concept of fixed-price contracts? Prior to their influence, business everywhere was...
WHEN WORK = WORSHIP IS A PROBLEM
The following is contributed by a B4T worker in the Middle East. In B4T, we constantly advocate that work = worship. In other words, if we are to do everything as unto the Lord, then our work should be part of that. Every part of our lives should be integrated into...
OPTIMIZATION IS KEY IN B4T
Part 2 of a mini two part series. Last week we discussed why optimization is a more important term than maximization in the B4T realm. Ironically, the more you try to maximize any one input, the less maximized the output will be (and, indeed, the whole system may blow...
OPTIMIZATION vs MAXIMIZATION IN B4T
Part 1 of a mini two part series. Maximization is a much older buzz word in the business world than “sustainability,” yet it certainly has never gone out of vogue. Maximizing shareholder value, maximizing profit, and their converse maxims, minimizing costs, etc. have...
A LESSON ABOUT MOTHERS
As it was Mother's Day yesterday, I thought this reminder is worth repeating. The author is unknown. After 21 years of marriage, my wife wanted me to take another woman out to dinner and a movie. She said "I love you but I know this other woman loves you and would...
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