In preparation to write the book Built to Last, authors Jim Collins and Jerry Porras and a team at Stanford University researched highly successful (“visionary”) and less successful companies for six years. Their research debunked many myths commonly held in the business world. The following are some of the myths and findings that I found [...]
Posted on April 14th, 2008 by Nathan Gwilliam
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One of the focuses of this blog is “social enterprise”. My good friend, Ward Andrews, recently asked me to define this term and mission of my blog. A social enterprise is a business (for-profit or non-profit) which has a socially driven mission. For example, Adoption.com, is a website which operates a [...]
Posted on June 20th, 2007 by Nathan Gwilliam
Filed under: Adoption, BYU Marriott School, Education, Entrepreneurship, Social Enterprise, e-Business | No Comments »
My favorite scripture is James 1:27 (KJV) “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.” I believe that the point of religion is not to spend a lifetime going to church or studying [...]
Posted on June 9th, 2007 by Nathan Gwilliam
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Recently, a large adoption organization hired a new president. A few months ago I had the pleasure of having dinner with him and several members of his staff while attending an adoption tradeshow in Texas. I stick out a little in the child welfare community because of my conservative political views in a [...]
Posted on June 8th, 2007 by Nathan Gwilliam
Filed under: Adoption, Ethics, Family, Life Lessons, Social Enterprise | 1 Comment »
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