Running a Business with Grant Smith-CMAW078

What You'll Hear: Grant spent 20 years as a quantity surveyor including his own consultancy He started his charity Hand in Hand while working part-time as a quantity surveyor 20 years ago he went into business that is completely commercial with no donor funds This is completely sustainable as long as the business is making money The purpose of the business was to create fairer employment and training but a business has to make money or it will go bankrupt One of their workers started their workers 30 minutes early for prayer The quadruple bottom line is economic, spiritual, social and environmental "It takes a certain kind of person to be an entrepreneur...There's nothing certain about business.  Business at different times can work and not work" Break 1 "The more people that contribute to the decision making process, the richer the decisions that are made" "I effectively surrounded myself with really strong characters who had something to bring to the table...because I wanted strong decisions" as part of a voluntary management board "I made myself accountable voluntarily to this board" If someone tells you to go meet with a certain person, do it! "I've never made promises about the rate of return that investors can receive...I've never tried to persuade anyone to invest" "If God has called you into the ministry of business...then He's not calling you in isolation" "We've always focused on investors investing in a particular project" Break 2  "One day I was in Mozambique and was asked to source a hovercraft" "The challenge I find in life...as a Christian how do you know what God is saying when things are going wrong?" "Too many people are inclined to give up too soon when faced with challenges" "If you take life too seriously and all you see is the challenges, then you end up being miserable and miss the humorous side" "We pay construction workers according to what they do" "The whole purpose of Jubilee...we can do that here and now...in the way that we structure our businesses" "Fairer means you don't disproportionately reward the risk takers" "We need to look at the person God has made us...it is our fun to explore and find out why I am like I am and how does God want to use me in His Kingdom right here, right now" Email [email protected] To purchase the book, go to https://www.kregel.com