Save the Date!

Plan now to join us November 12–14, 2026, at Glen Eyrie Castle in Colorado Springs for the Navigators Missional Enterprise National Conference – a gathering of business leaders and aspiring business leaders interested in missional enterprise, along with those who come alongside to support them. Together, we’ll explore what it means to make disciples through our businesses—bringing together diverse backgrounds, industries, and contexts around a shared desire to see God honored through work that is both excellent and redemptive.

Come for thoughtful equipping, honest conversation, and the kind of community that reminds us we are not alone in this calling. More details and registration coming soon.

The Lone Wolf Myth

Gatherings like this conference in November are powerful ways to fight against what you could call the “Myth of the Lone Wolf Entrepreneur” – the idea we’ve mentioned in earlier articles1 that business leaders have succeeded by possessing unique characteristics enabling them to “go it alone,” and that we should try to do the same.

Neither assumption is accurate.

Even entrepreneurs commonly thought of as successful “Lone Rangers,” like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, had dynamic and complementary teammates from early on, and testified to the power of groups of people in starting a business.

Richard Branson, British entrepreneur and founder of Virgin Atlantic Airways, said it this way:

Many people think that an entrepreneur is someone who operates alone, overcoming challenges and bringing his idea to market through sheer force of personality. This is completely inaccurate. Few entrepreneurs — scratch that: almost no one — ever achieved anything worthwhile without help. To be successful in business, you need to connect and collaborate and delegate.

A team of researchers from the University of Chicago and the University of Amsterdam found that, if anything, entrepreneurs are more inclined toward teamwork than average. They concluded:

Our findings . . . provide no support for the ‘lone wolf’ hypothesis that entrepreneurs have a particular taste for individual work.

Better Together

Of course, as members of the body of Christ, none of this should surprise us, and we should pursue opportunities to connect and collaborate.

Please mark your calendars now and plan to join us at the breathtaking and historic Glen Eyrie Castle and Conference Center, November 12-14, 2026!

Verse of the Week:

Two are better than one,
because they have a good return for their labor: Ecclesiastes 4:9

Let’s allow the wisdom of this familiar verse to sink in and ask God to guide us to work together well in building missional enterprises.