Posts by Grace Rockefeller

In 1970, David Green borrowed $600 and started assembling picture frames in his garage. What he and his son Steve built from that is now the largest privately owned arts-and-crafts retailer in the world. And they’ve run it like they believe every word of what they say about God owning it. Steve Green, who later…

Most business owners spend their careers building equity. Alan Barnhart spent his career giving it away and then gave the whole thing away too. When Alan and his brother Eric took over their family’s small crane and rigging company in Memphis, Tennessee, they made a decision that most people would call reckless. Before the company…

Truett Cathy and the People-First Philosophy of Chick-fil-A There’s a Chick-fil-A in almost every mall in America. And on Sundays, every single one of them is dark. Locked up. Not a single chicken sandwich sold. That was Truett Cathy’s decision. And it cost the company real money — an estimated $1 billion in annual missed…