TGC 236 — What I Wish I Knew: Lessons From Getting an MBA

There are often ties made between the business world and the church. Some of them are more helpful than others. Some of them are more appropriate than others. In this episode, I asked Bart Day (the president and CEO of Lutheran Church Extension Fund) about what he learned by completing a Master of Business Administration from Washington University and what he wish he had known from that program as a newly minted pastor. What can we actually learn from the business world that helps in our work in the church?

List of books mentioned:

• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
• Freakonomics by Steve Levitt and Stephen Dubner
• All the Leadership Fables by Patrick Lencioni
• Measure What Matters by John Doerr
• The Machine That Changed the World by James Womack, Daniel Jones, and Daniel Roos
• How Stella Saved the Farm by Chris Trimble and Vijay Govindarajan
• The Goal and It’s Not Luck by Eliyahu Goldratt

Host: Fr. Jason Braaten

Special Guest: Fr. Bart Day

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