A Review of Transformation from a Business Turnaround Specialist's perspective
Dear Ed,
I have just completed your newest book Transformation-Change the Marketplace and You Change the World. The book had a profound impact on me and thus, I wanted to write you a letter of gratitude telling you in more detail of that impact.
As a background, I have felt strongly for some time that God was going to raise up Christian business leaders to operate their businesses in a way of excellence. As a result of operating on this higher plane, they would dominate their particular market niche. Through a combination of spiritual blessings, wisdom, insight and discernment plus operating according to best demonstrated business practices, these businesses would achieve a very high degree of sustainable competitive advantage. As a result of this success, these businesses would turn into virtual cash machines! Since the owners would have sold out completely to the Lord Jesus Christ, these cash streams would be held loosely and significant portions would be redirected into Kingdom work.
However, this vision flies directly into the face of the reality which is that up to 80% of businesses fail in the first five years. And depending on which set of statistics you are following, those businesses that survived the first five years also face a very low probability of success. Since I work in the world of business turnarounds, I'm acutely aware of this very low survival rate, even with Christian ventures. Your book, Transformation lays out a blueprint for believers to use so that they can move their business from failure and mere subsistence to success and ultimately significance.
Ed, as you mentioned in Transformation, "miracles are the best teachers". Owners of failing businesses need to see miracles…they need hope. Once they see those miracles they are open to the transformation power of God in their lives and their businesses. It's difficult to read Transformation and continue to think mere survival. I believe your book will motivate the struggling business person to soar with the eagles.
In every future business turnaround that I am called into, I plan on using Transformation has the spiritual foundation upon which the business needs to be rebuilt. The blueprint inherent in your book is the missing piece that I have been looking for to connect all the dots.
Thank you for allowing yourself to be used in such a powerful way by God to effectively communicate these ideas which the business world is so hungry for. The outcome of your transformation plan is so exciting. When one thinks of the goal of spreading the message of Jesus Christ to the whole world and eliminating systemic poverty in the process…what a significant way to live life!
Blessings,
Bob Wood
President, Virtual Knowledge Management, Inc.