Bible Business 170 What happens when a Younger Person Manages an Older Person?

Bible Business 170 What happens when a Younger Person Manages an Older Person?

Broadcast on May 15, 2024, Bill English and Carmen LaBerge discuss working cross-generationally. What happens when a younger person manages an older person? Bill and Carmen discuss this question. What happens when inexperience leads experience?
Bible Business 166 Risk, Uncertainty, and Christian Theology

Bible Business 166 Risk, Uncertainty, and Christian Theology

Carmen Sometimes you find out things about your Smarty Pants friends or friends that you have in one... You are their friend because of one thing, but in fact, you have other people who know them for something else. I had a World Collide moment related to Bill English recently. I know Bill English because we get to talk to him frequently from bibleandbusiness. Com. I think...
Bible Business 165 Shoplifting, Fantasy Gifts, and Finding Freedom

Bible Business 165 Shoplifting, Fantasy Gifts, and Finding Freedom

Carmen LaBerge All right, our friend Bill English is here. Bill, good morning. Bill English Hey, good morning, Carmen. Carmen LaBerge A picture is worth a thousand sheets. Bill English I don't even know what that means. Carmen LaBerge I heard you say that. America has a shoplifting problem. And so in a particular CVS in Washington, DC, there's no longer rolls of toilet paper, a thousand...
Bible Business 164 What Does the Bible Say a Christian Business Owner Should Value When Establishing Core Values for a Business

Bible Business 164 What Does the Bible Say a Christian Business Owner Should Value When Establishing Core Values for a Business

This episode is part of a series on Christian ethics for Christian business owners. Broadcast on November 3, 2023, Bill English and Carmen LaBerge @carmenlaberge talk on @myfaithradio about those things the Bible says Christians should value over other things. @connectfaithfr. Carmen LaBerge If you haven't been to Bibleandbusiness.com lately, I'm going to invite you to visit Connecting Faith to Business with our friend Bill English. Good...
Bible Business 163 Hearing the Voice of God in Ethical Decision-Making

Bible Business 163 Hearing the Voice of God in Ethical Decision-Making

This episode is part of the Bible and Business series on Christian Ethics for Christian Business Owners. This episode was broadcast on October 18, 2023 on @myfaithradio with @carmenlaberge @connectFaithfr. In this episode, Bill English, Publisher of Bible and Business and Carmen Laberge talk about hearing God's voice in ethical decision-making. Carmen LaBerge All right, the plan is that our friend Bill English from Bibleandbusiness.com is joining...
Bible Business 162 The Starting Point of Christian Ethics and Tolerating Boorish Behavior

Bible Business 162 The Starting Point of Christian Ethics and Tolerating Boorish Behavior

This episode is part of the Bible and Business series on Christian Ethics for Christian Business Owners. Broadcast on @myfaithradio @connectfaithfr on Wednesday, October 4, 2023. Bill English and Carmen LaBerge @carmentlaberge talk about the starting point for Christian ethics and then apply that starting point to a common situation in which a person in business or ministry exhibits boorish behavior. Carmen LaBerge Hey, our friend Bill...
Bible Business 112 Bill Arnold from Faith Radio Interviews Bill English

Bible Business 112 Bill Arnold from Faith Radio Interviews Bill English

Bill Arnold from Faith Radio Interviews Bill English about his book, A Christian Theology of Business Ownership. Download Transcription Bill Arnold [00:00:23] All right. If you are a business owner, listen up. Maybe you're looking for a fresh perspective. We want to make sure we align our role as an owner with biblical theology. And here to help us do that is Bill English is a very...
Bible Business 97 Corporations and Customers Divide Over Political Speech and Opinion

Bible Business 97 Corporations and Customers Divide Over Political Speech and Opinion

Aired on January 20 on Faith Radio, Bill English and Carmen LeBerge discuss how Brand Purpose is influencing how companies are gathering customers customers and align their supply chains along political beliefs. This will further divide our country and is dangerous territory to combine the economic, political and theological ideologies in business. Business owners should be known first for our faith in God and secondarily to a...
Bible Business 96 Positive and Negative Effects of Govt Stimulus

Bible Business 96 Positive and Negative Effects of Govt Stimulus

Aired on January 6, 2021 on Faith Radio, Bill English and Carmen Leberge talk about the positive and negative effects of the stimulus bill. We also talk about the St. Paul Chamber of Commerce name change and their focus on improving neighborhoods in the St. Paul, MN area as well as diversity in business ownership.
Bible Business 95 Brand Purpose and Consequences

Bible Business 95 Brand Purpose and Consequences

Aired on January 20, 2021 on Faith Radio, Bill English and Carmen Leberge discuss the real world consequences of expressing one's political positions for business owners and business leaders. Customers want to purchase from companies whose brand purpose aligns with their political beliefs. Supply chains are now dividing along political lines as companies don't want to be associated with certain customers. Social media platforms are dividing on...
Bible Business 94 Enabling Employee Productivity and Respecting Your Manager

Bible Business 94 Enabling Employee Productivity and Respecting Your Manager

Aired on November 18, 2020 on Faith Radio with Carmen Leberge, Bill English discusses ways to keep employees engaged and productive during COVID. Here are the talking points for this spot: With the rise in COVID cases, what can business owners/leaders/managers do to protect their staff and yet keep up productivityUse technology – provide Zoom or Teams or WebEx accounts to your employeesCreate “birds of a feather”...
Bible Business 93 Legal Shoplifting in California and Effects on Business

Bible Business 93 Legal Shoplifting in California and Effects on Business

Aired on Faith Radio on November 4, 2020, the day after our election, with Carmen Leberge on Mornings with Carmen, we start with the question if onboarding people during COVID is any different than a normal onboarding processes. We also discuss how California has made shoplifting up to a certain dollar amount legal and what the effects are for business owners.
Bible Business 92 Being Unequally Yoked in Business

Bible Business 92 Being Unequally Yoked in Business

Originally aired on Faith Radio with Carmen Leberge, Mornings with Carmen, Bill English discusses being unequally yoked in business. This topic is discussed in the 2nd half of this radio spot. We discuss evictions in commercial real estate in the first half of the spot.
Bible Business 91 Stewardship and Entrustments from Matthew 25

Bible Business 91 Stewardship and Entrustments from Matthew 25

Aired on June 24, 2020 with Peter Kapsner on Faith Radio, Bill English discuss Matthew 25 and the parable of the talents entrusted to the servants. Our relationship is based on a covenant with God, not duty that is rules-based. Stewarding a business means recognizing that God owns your business, so when you create wealth, it is used to further the Kingdom of God.
Bible Business 90 Evictions and Thanksgiving in 2020

Bible Business 90 Evictions and Thanksgiving in 2020

Aired on November 25, 2020, Bill English talks with Carmen LeBerge at Faith Radio about what we'll eat on Thanksgiving. But we also talk about how to re-purpose empty commercial space and the eviction crisis America is facing. Here are my show notes: Talking points: What to do with empty commercial space? ChurchesCommunity centersResidential facilities for aging populationCondosAffordable housing – estimate – need 7.2M new affording housing...
Bible Business 87 Leadership in a Crisis: Do’s and Don’ts

Bible Business 87 Leadership in a Crisis: Do’s and Don’ts

Aired on April 15, 2020 on Mornings with Carmen, Bill English and Carmen LeBerge discuss the Dark Side of Personality as well as how leaders can lead (as opposed to merely manage) during a crisis. This HBR article is referenced. Here are the show notes: Leading through crisis:  3 main points Negative tendency: In a word:  Narrow: you’ll tend to take a narrow view of things –...
Bible Business 86 Monetary vs. Fiscal Policy: A Primer

Bible Business 86 Monetary vs. Fiscal Policy: A Primer

Aired on January 22, 2020, Bill English and Carmen LeBerge discuss Monetary policy on Mornings with Carmen at My Faith Radio. Here are the show notes: Monetary policy: Monetary policy consists of management of money supply and interest rates, aimed at achieving macroeconomic objectives such as controlling inflation, consumption, growth, and liquidity. These are achieved by actions such as modifying the interest rate or increasing/decreasing the money...
Bible Business 85 Socialism, Capitalism and God’s Purposes for Business

Bible Business 85 Socialism, Capitalism and God’s Purposes for Business

Originally aired on October 30, 2019 on Mornings with Carmen, Bill English and Carmen LeBerge discuss current trends of younger people liking socialism more than capitalism. God's purposes for business are Products, Profits, People or Passions and Philanthropy. Our show notes included: Millennials and socialism….the value of free markets.  Redeemed free-markets, etc: https://www.axios.com/millennials-vote-socialism-capitalism-decline-60c8a6aa-5353-45c4-9191-2de1808dc661.html https://tifwe.org/a-redemptive-purpose-for-profit-in-business/ https://www.bibleandbusiness.com/2012/07/28/a-christians-response-to-the-presidents-remarks-you-didnt-build-that/?highlight=socialism
Bible Business 83 God’s System of Fairness

Bible Business 83 God’s System of Fairness

Originally aired on Mornings with Carmen on November 6, 2019, Bill English and Carmen Leberge discuss God's System of Fairness (companion article here) Here are the show notes we used: God is sovereign, so He gets to decide what is fairThat which brings God glory is fairThat which is unfair in this world will be made right in HeavenWhen we are called to suffer on behalf of...

Bible Business 80 The Emotional Price we Pay When We are Working in an Organization that is Failing

Aired on February 26, 2020, Bill English talks with Carme LeBerge on Mornings with Carmen about the emotional price leaders pay when the organization is failing. The companion artle is here. Here are the show notes: Notes for 2-26-19 Faith Radio Spot Article: the Emotional price Owners Pay When Their Business is Failing This article is featured in the new slider I built over the weekend. Hook: ...