Bill Long
Faith and Family Business: Guarding Your Tongue, Saving Your Life
By Bill Long on October 6, 2017
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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