While teaching disruption and SCM risk in Indonesia, COVID-19 has transformed risk management and risk mitigation planning. … More Teaching Global Supply Chain Disruption and Risk Management in Indonesia During COVID-19
A Call to Social Innovation – creating social value that benefits all of our neighbors, not just our nearest ones. … More A Call to Social Innovation
After a long break from blogging (how did time pass that fast?), I’m back!! For the next semester I’ll be writing from Indonesia! The past few years have been full of teaching business classes, conducting research and writing articles, submitting book proposals, launching centers, and going through the tenure process at Wheaton College. I’m excited … More Fulbright Indonesia
The goal of my personal theology of business is to explore how a faith-led individual can go about growing a business while applying Biblical principles that facilitate “business success.” In order to understand what drives business success, we have to first explore what is a Biblical understanding of success and Biblical examples of business. I … More A Simple Theology of Business (or a theory of wisdom-based business)
I realize this post doesn’t have a lot to do with lessons learned directly from Indonesian culture. However, as I have spent the last week working on the manuscript for my Wisdom Based Business book, I have had a lot of time to reflect on the overlap between ancient sages of the East and the … More Reflections from the Far East on the role of the Sage vs. the modern-day Scholar
This new department challenges the authors of selected Journal of Business Logistics (JBL) articles to explain the real-world implications of their academic research. Source: How supply chains can support the shopper experience – CSCMP’s Supply Chain Quarterly
“let the greatest among you become like the youngest, let the leader become one who serves1” This concept is applied and taught in churches around the world. It is applied in so many areas of our personal ethos, but it seems as though it is least applied where it can have the most effect day … More Servant Leadership – the Foundation of Business Impact
aOver half of the world’s 100 top GDPs1 are held by corporations. This means 51 companies have higher revenues than the GDPs of 142 nations of the 193 nations the UN recognizes!2 While not a perfect comparison, a recent Business Insider article compared leading companies’ corporate revenue to the GDP of individual nations, for example: … More The Wealth of Corporations: Can Corporate Leaders Help Redeem the Cultures of Nations
Sometimes, in our quest to be successful and have impact, we may forget that titles and price tags are not the only qualifiers of success. Until we overcome the mindset that the road to success is measured by profit and titles, we will achieve very little in terms of making the world, the marketplace, society, … More The Growing Business Credo: Purpose beyond Profit
For the last 20+ years business research has compared business relationships to dating and marriage. Although that metaphor hasn’t endured the test of time1, perhaps the need for “love” in commercial interactions is more pragmatic than emotional. It all depends on how you define love. If you define it as Merriam-Webster does, it is merely … More The Importance of Love (it hasn’t diminished and it applies in business)
