Ethics and Values: February 2005 Archives

One of the most facinating parts of entrepreneurship to me is how differently each entrepreneur views what success means for their business. It is so more complex than most on the outside will ever understand. A Business Driven Life offers a wonderful reflection on this topic in his post from Saturday, February 19, 2005.

Anita at Small Business Trends offers her thoughts on the piece I wrote earlier this week on Fr. Sirico's talk on our campus on "The Entrepreneurial Vocation."

This past week we had the great pleasure to Welcome Fr. Robert Sirico of the Acton Institute to our campus at Belmont University.

Fr. Sirico spoke about how the entrepreneur, endowed with particular natural talents, is the primary agent of economic progress in the modern world, and that even though a free society is highly dependent upon the entrepreneur for its material existence, the vocation of business is relatively under appreciated within the religious community.

"Instead of praising the entrepreneur as a person of ideas, an economic innovator, or a provider of capital, the average priest or minister thinks of people in business as carrying extra guilt. Why is that?" Rev. Sirico has said. The consequences of a divorce between the world of business and the world of faith is potentially disastrous for both worlds, he says.