Purpose-Driven Business Week - March 5, 2025

Your quick snapshot of business insights for the week—accelerating faith-driven business, curated to help you lead with purpose and keep scaling great heights.

"Success in business and life goes beyond mere transactions—it requires vision, resilience, and a deep sense of purpose. Many struggle with doubt, fear, and distractions that rob them of their full potential. From scaling startups to groundbreaking business strategies, the path to growth is paved with adaptability and strong core values. Great leaders and companies thrive by balancing continuity with change, staying true to their mission while evolving with the world. What drives your vision forward?"

Joseph Sam , Inc. 3:16

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1. Events?| Connect. Engage. Advance.

"Join us for the World’s Largest Christian Business Leadership Conference."

Mike Sharrow , CEO - C12 Business Forums

APRIL 23-25, 2025 | GAYLORD TEXAN RESORT & CONVENTION CENTER | DALLAS, TX

Over 1,500 folks have registered for www.c12current25.com - the energy, connections and experience of those days is going to be extraordinary. Grab your ticket today!!

• 2,000 Christian business leaders are expected to gather for the premier event designed to equip and challenge you to build a great business for a greater purpose.
• 25 successful CEOs sharing real-world insights.
• 3 days of professional connections with like-minded leaders from around the world.

Experience the joy of the fellowship with faith-driven business leaders.?

Register Today! | www.c12current25.com

Events | Wisdom in the Workplace

"Tuesday, March 11 Faith Co-Op is honored to have John Cortines as our speaker at the 4th installment in our "Wisdom in the Workplace" Lunch and Learn series.

John has researched, reflected, and wrote about how Christians should think about their finances. Come join in on the conversation as we continue to explore what it means to seek wisdom in all of life! "

Jonathan Ingraham Faith Co-Op

Register now and learn practical wisdom for stewarding our wealth for God's glory.

https://lnkd.in/e4RT8Rmu

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2. Community | Abundant Life

Thieves of Purpose

"The thief wants you to be bitter, purpose wants you to be better."

"It’s for the person that struggles with comparison, impatience, guilt, distraction, fear, doubt, unbelief, and all of the thieves that rob them every day of experiencing the fullness of their purpose. It’s for every person who has ever wanted to quit, and decided to just keep going.

It is my deep hope that this book will help every person who reads it confront the thieves in their mind so that they can experience the fullness of the purpose they were created for.

To God be the glory!"

- Davin Salvagno, Author, Thieves of Purpose, #1 Amazon Bestseller.

Lasting Impact

Generosity is more powerful when it’s shared.

@Brandon Gossett

"Last Thursday in Corinth, Mississippi, something truly special happened. Thirteen families gathered around the table—not just to share a meal, but to celebrate a shared mission. This Giving Collective is more than just a group of donors; it’s a community of families committed to making a lasting impact together and changing the world."

Listening to God

Last week being in France, having a small retreat with Europartners and Business Leaders about listening to and speaking from Gods voice. Personal take away:

God is interested in you and He would like to speak to you in a very personal way. To encourage, strengthen, and comfort you, as well as showing you his friendship.

Wouter Droppers Europartners

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3. Startup to Scaleup | Get Your Guide

Bootstrapping to a $2 Billion?

A high-risk startup to a category-defining company in 15 years. Learn how this travel company went from bootstrapped startup to a $2 billion valuation.

GetYourGuide co-founder and CEO Johannes Reck shares the mistakes and crises that paved the way to unicorn status.

Source: Inc.

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4. Brewing Beyond Business | Entrepreneur’s World

Yoda & You - Finding the best person in the world to mentor you.

“Being an entrepreneur is now not considered at the lunatic fringe of capitalism, but rather something celebrated and admired.”

Jim Koch, Founder of Boston Beer

In?Quench Your Own Thirst, Koch offers unprecedented insights into the whirlwind ride from scrappy start-up to thriving public company. His innovative business model and refreshingly frank stories offer counterintuitive lessons that you can apply to business and to life.

He gives much of the credit for the beer itself to Joe Owades, a renowned brewmaster who oversaw the art and alchemy that eventually produced Samuel Adams. Koch advises readers that for every startup there is one thing?at which it must be brilliant. For that thing, says Koch, “it’s vital that you get?the very best person in the world?to mentor you and help you achieve perfection.” Owades, says Koch, was the company’s Yoda.

Inputs: WSJ, Inc., Amazon

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5. Spotlight

The Buffet way of making RVs

$800 million deal in 20 minutes, 20 years ago.

Learn how Pete Liegl, the late CEO of Forest River kept his hands on the wheel of his company and fingers on the pulse of his customers.?

Forest River, a RV company generating roughly $6 billion of annual revenue— as much as Ferrari.?

“I earned an M.B.A. from Pete before I graduated from high school,” said Brad Gerstner , the founder of ALTIMETER CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC , a firm with $9 billion under management.

Source: WSJ

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6. Inspiration | Learning New Things Every Day

Startup Mindset for a Fulfilling Career: $300,000 to nearly $1 million in 3 years!

“I started to realize that I was not pushing myself enough, I didn’t feel like I was growing enough. I can go into the office every day and ask myself, ‘Am I working on something that’s important for this company, am I working on something that’s important for my career growth and am I learning new things every day’? If I can answer those three questions as, ‘Yes,’ I think that’s a fulfilling career for me.”

Source: CNBC

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7. Building Your Company's Vision | Foundation Series

Companies that enjoy enduring success have core values and a core purpose that remain fixed while their business strategies and practices endlessly adapt to a changing world.

Truly great companies understand the difference between what should never change and what should be open for change, between what is genuinely sacred and what is not. This rare ability to manage continuity and change – requiring a consciously practiced discipline – is closely linked to the ability to develop a vision.

A well-conceived vision consists of two major components: core ideology and envisioned future. Core ideology, defines what we stand for and why we exist. The envisioned future is what we aspire to become, to achieve, to create – something that will require significant change and progress to attain.

Core ideology consists of core values and core purpose. Core ideology provides the glue that holds an organization together as it grows, decentralizes, diversifies, expands globally, and develops workplace diversity. You discover core ideology by looking inside. It has to be authentic.

Core values are the essential and enduring tenets of an organization. A small set of timeless guiding principles, core values require no external justification; they have intrinsic value and importance to those inside the organization.

Core purpose, the second part of core ideology, is the organization’s reason for being. It captures the soul of the organization. One powerful method for getting at purpose is the five why's.

Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek.

The second primary component of the vision framework is envisioned future. It consists of two parts: a 10-to-30-year audacious goal (BHAGs) plus vivid descriptions (words to picture) of what it will be like to achieve the goal.

What is your company's vision?

by James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras

Source: HBR, Sep-Oct 1996

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About Inc. 3:16

Purpose-Driven Business Week

Covering key events, latest business trends, technology developments, market dynamics, and funding - impacting the startups and the small businesses.

The vision of 'Inc. 3:16' is to inspire and advance a 'world that God so loved' through impactful business.

A faith-driven business community fueled by a passion for generosity, redemptive entrepreneurship, and the gospel.

Curated by Joseph Sam