Serious Business: Why It Matters (Article by Tony Mulkern)
In his article “Serious Business: Why It Matters,” C.F.E. friend Tony Mulkern summarizes some of the arguments made by Michael Novak during his C.F.E. sponsored speaking tour a few years ago, and then concludes with his own advice to business owners:
“When you wonder if it is all worth it, remember that you are a symbol, an example, and one of the drivers of a free people freely creating wealth, a society, and a world in which all can pursue their dreams, consistent with the freedom of others.”
Some Hope!
A couple of weeks ago I flew to Florida to attend the wedding of a nephew. Meeting and interacting with people in their twenties gave me a big shot of hope. To see these "kids" establishing themselves in various ventures and careers was really encouraging -- they...
Rent Seeking in Greece (and elsewhere)
Panagiotis Evangelopoulos has an excellent short article in the current (summer) issue of The Independent Review (available by subscription). His basic argument is that political leaders in Greece, both left and right, have used political rent seeking to maintain...
The Institute for Justice Goes to Court for Economic Liberty
Today might be an important day for economic liberty -- the Institute for Justice goes to court on behalf of the monks of St. Joseph's Abbey to protect their right to make and sell caskets on the open market. Chip Mellor of I.J. writes: When we appear before the...
The Church and Business
Michael Kruse has an excellent short post at KruseKronicle blog titled "The Church's Contribution to the Corruption of Business". The video (from Higher Calling) of an interview with a young MBA student to which he links demonstrates very clearly the impact of the...
Moral Capitalism Conference
David Bahnsen's Moral Capitalism group and the Acton Insititute will be sponsoring a one day conference on April 28 in Newport Beach titled Virtuous Capitalism and the Financial Crisis: Our Prevention and Remedy. More information is available at...
Abraham Zaleznik, RIP
Abraham Zaleznik was a professor of leadership at The Harvard Business School for 43 years and a certified psychoanalyst. He was also the author of a very important, and famous, 1977 Harvard Business Review article: Managers and Leaders: Are They Different? To understand the impact of his article, one should remember that when written there was much less of an understanding that leadership is quite different from management; Zaleznik was on the leading edge of the wave. Zaleznik also had the ability to convey some of the psychological differences between leaders and managers and their formation and did so in a way that is still valuable.
Whole Foods in Brooklyn?
Recommended: This week Kennedy has a highly entertaining new video up on Reason.tv: "Will Whole Foods Destroy Brooklyn?" that deals with a battle over a proposed Whole Foods store to be built on an eyesore of an abandoned lot. The video avoids expressing an overt...
Moral Decision Making: Neurological Perspectives
Ronald Bailey at Reason.com reports on a conference on the neurological aspects of ethics and morality, sponsored by the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. Of particular interest is Bailey's summary of a paper by Gregory Berns on the location within the brain where...
First Post
With this blog, we intend to provide information and commentary about the intersection of faith and enterprise. We expect the content to address the issues pertaining to business enterprise related vocations, as well as the importance of relatively free markets for...
