Five things businesses need to learn from the church

I read the Harvard Business Review. I even follow HBR on Twitter. I regularly quote Daniel Pink. I’m always learning from Anya Kamenetz. And my mind has been blown by the philosophic meanderings of Jaron Lanier. Business, innovation, and technology live alongside theology on my bookshelf. Often businesses have the money to conduct research that churches do not, so we have a lot to learn from them.

But I’m not writing a book on the Gospel According to the Fortune 500 any time soon. Do you know why? Because churches have a much more sustainable business model than businesses do.

I don’t mean to sound presumptuous, because I think it’s important that we all learn from one another. But if I were in the business world (as I was before I went to seminary), I would spend some time studying churches.