Doing Business God’s Way. Peacocke, Dennis Santa Rosa, CA: Rebuild, 1995.
Dennis provides eleven master principles upon which businesses should be built. Learn the difference between riches and wealth, leadership and management, as well as God's view of money and private property.
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne. Harvard Business School Publishing Corp. 2005
Authors present a compelling case for pursuing strategy with a creative, not combative, approach. Their emphases on value innovation and stakeholder engagement make this book an excellent read for both executives and students of business.
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras, New York, NY: Harper Collins, 2002.
Filled with hundreds of specific examples and organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at all levels. Provides a master blueprint for building organizations that will prosper long into the 21st century and beyond.
Good to Great, Jim Collins, New York, NY: Harper Business, 2001.
Over five years, the author analyzed the histories of twenty-eight companies and discovered the key determinants of greatness -- why some companies make the leap and others don't.
Loving Monday: Succeeding in Business Without Selling Your Soul, John Beckett, Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1998.
Beckett provides a compelling account of how he has integrated a biblically based approach into his company’s workplace.
Business as a Calling, Michael Novak, New York, NY: The Free Press, 1996.
Explores business as a vocation with its own spiritual requirements. Deepens understanding of the religious dimensions of business life
New Rules for the New Economy, Kevin Kelly, New York, NY: Penguin Group, 1998.
Author encapsulates the characteristics of economic order by laying out 10 rules for how the wired world operates.
Baptized Inflation, Ian Hodge, Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics, 1986.
Author exposes the truth concerning the well-known economic theorist, John Maynard Keynes. It also explains why it is impossible to yoke the Keynesian economic theory of socialism with the principles of the Christian faith.
Selling Among Wolves, Michael Q. Pink, Gainesville, FL: Bridge-Logos Publishers, 2000.
A powerful, practical application of Biblical principles to the sales process.
