For many years I attended and loved church. I loved the music, the praise and worship and the preaching. I loved talking to my friends after the service. However on Monday morning it was business as usual. Business as usual meant doing business the world’s way. I had a business degree and many learned sales…
For those of you who were not able to be with us, through distance or circumstance, let me “share ” the evening with you too. The aim of the evening was to get together as Business Edge members, spouses and guests and celebrate the year, (whatever it looked like!), and look forward to what God…
Sometimes our biggest enemy in life and business isn’t actually the devil, it is ourselves. Does this shock you? Think I am wrong? Read on a bit and hear me out. I think sometimes he just sets the stage, or sets things in motion, presenting us with the experience or circumstance and then stands back…
I was having an early morning “one on one” with a colleague last week in one of my usual busy café haunts where many like-minded business people congregate to start their day with a spirit of optimism and good coffee. We touched upon the usual many topics, particularly in the areas relating to his new enterprise which specialises…
Choosing your Destination. Once a colleague and I were traveling back from a meeting in the Midlands of KwaZulu-Natal. I was driving and, after pulling over to take a call, I took the wrong onramp to the highway. My colleague and I had been chatting away for about an hour when we suddenly realised…
It has been a week of celebration in our corner of the universe!! For those of you who do not follow the game of Rugby Union, (or some who stayed in bed at 5am this morning, because the tournament was held in UK !) our New Zealand national team the ALL BLACKS,just won the Rugby…
The entrepreneur’s journey is full of moments of limited resources; either you are raising capital to launch or expand that unique business idea or trying to ensure you have enough cash to make it through. Sometimes it seems like everyone else is fully funded except you, but the reality is there is no great vision…
How much seed do we have to sow before we get a decent crop? A lot! How much is a lot? What ever it takes or “How long is a piece of string?”. The good news is that God knows. God calls people into business i.e. One’s “calling” or “assignment”. If we obey His calling we can…
T.E.A.M –— this was the word God gave me at the beginning of this year , as we met together with our TEAM to pray and agree about our dreams and aspirations for Business Edge 2015 The acronym is To Effectively Arm the Marketplace. In New Zealand, one of the things that we felt was…
Wow – October already!! Before we know it, the season of work “Christmas parties” will be upon us and we will be booked out most nights, running madly from one event to the next! With the end of the year looming, how have things progressed for you over the last 9 months? Sometimes things don’t…
