Bill Long

• Faith and Family Business: Guarding Your Tongue, Saving Your Life

  By Bill Long on October 6, 2017

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• Reflections on a Philosophy of Risk

  By Bill Long on October 5, 2017

  Imagine the following: You are a Division I football coach of a team ranked #25 in the country. You have a game with a top 10 opponent. You have a chance to blow the game wide open, winning by 20 or...

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• Faith and Family Business: Balance and Single-Hearted Devotion

  By Bill Long on August 30, 2017

  Do a Google search on “work-life balance” and more than 93,000,000 results come up. The Wikipedia article on “work-life balance” is longer than the biography of many Nobel Prize winners. Surely, we...

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• Faith and Family Business: Down But Not Out (II Cor 4:8-9)

  By Bill Long on July 31, 2017

  The Apostle Paul was one person who knew first-hand what tough times were. In one dramatic catalogue of his troubles, he said: “Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I received a stoning. Three...

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• How to Be "Cool" - Biblically Speaking

  By Bill Long on June 30, 2017

  "The one who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and the one who rules the spirit (is better) than the conqueror of a city,"  Prov. 16:32. "The one who restrains words has knowledge, and the...

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• Learning Thoroughly

  By Bill Long on April 28, 2017

  As my son headed off to college, I experienced the surge of emotions felt by countless generations of parents who realize that their "little boy" was now a "young adult".   I so much wanted him to...

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• Faith and Family Business: Describing and Choosing During Transitions (Prov. 2:1-5)

  By Bill Long on April 13, 2017

           One of the most difficult issues confronting family businesses is how to transfer the older generation’s enthusiasm, commitment, insight and wisdom to the next generation. We older ones...

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• How "Fit" Are Your Words?

  By Bill Long on February 23, 2017

  In this writing,  Dr. Long shows us the value our words have with those around us.

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• Guarding Your Tongue, Saving Your Life

  By Bill Long on February 17, 2017

  By taking care of our words, and not simply our farm management techniques, we can nourish and feed many.

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• A Different Kind of Productivity

  By Bill Long on February 9, 2017

  Productivity doesn't have to be measured.  Dr. Bill Long explains how being productive, doesn't mean only using economic terms.

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