Your talents for God’s Kingdom

Over a cup of coffee, Wendell—an entrepreneur with a PhD in biomedical engineering—told me that he was thinking about making a career change. “I don’t want to waste my life,” he said. “I want to do something that has real significance, where I can glorify God and...

Walking and Praying to gain Wisdom

When was the last time you listened to a podcast of a TED talk or of a sermon of your favorite preacher? This is a good way to “redeem the time” spent commuting or exercising on a treadmill (for instance). Perhaps you plan to attend the Chick-Fil-A Leaderast, Willow...

Social Isolation and the Workplace of the Future

In 1995, Michael Smith, then President & CEO of Land’s End, ushered in the modern social networking era, with the launch of Classmates.com. SixDegrees, Friendster, LinkedIn, and MySpace followed. Latecomer Facebook (originally known as “TheFacebook”) joined the...

Finding Christ in the Walking Dead

For a gory, horror TV show about the zombie apocalypse, the over-arching message of “The Walking Dead” is surprisingly hopeful. And no character embodies that message more than Tyreese (Chad Coleman), who (spoiler alert!) sadly is also the most recently deceased. In...

Truett Cathy: A Model of Values-Based Entrepreneurship

I would like to give a special thanks to Perry Ragsdale, former Executive Vice President of Chick-fil-A, for the invaluable insights he shared with me about the history, culture and values of Chick-fil-A. Perry was the fourth management employee at Chick-fil-A and...