Charlene Li shared an insightful presentation on the changes in technology that are starting to gain traction amongst early adopters. Hot Or Not: The Disruptive Tech Outlook for 2011 View more presentations from Charlene Li. It’s worth scanning through these slides to see if you or those you are serving are engaging in any of …
Kanye West shared a key insight that I discovered about leadership. I’m oriented towards the “Tell me” method of leadership. This method involves the least amount of effort but produces the lowest yield for the person being led. It’s been a process of learning the value of involving people but I will say that I’ve …
A healthy, mature, and growing in number group of emerging leaders is a strong indicator of a ministry’s health. But besides challenging new students to leadership positions how do you get there? From 30,000 feet this is the best way to develop a college ministry leadership team: Test them in the Fall Align them in …
You cannot be effective in ministry today unless you are PROFICIENT in technology/social media. Not an expert, nor a casual observer, but intentional, strategic, and humble to learn, try, and discard technological tools. I love what Matt Stauffer, a staff member from Intervarsity, is doing over at Staffhacker. So much so that I’m going to …
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Improving your weekly productivity is entirely possible with some reflection and proactivity. I’ve found examining these three things to refine my weekly productivity and balance out the high and low weeks: 1. Important/Non-Urgent vs Important/Urgent How many important/non-urgent events/tasks do you accomplish on average? Compare that to the amount of urgent events/tasks and you get a …
…is a lie. Mentorship is messy but invaluable to my personal development. Larry Chiang, a friend of mine wrote “5 Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make” in Gigaom recently that presented the realities and opportunities of finding and being mentored. Some great quotes: “For example, when I taught baseball camp, we never said to any 5- or 6 …
“Likes” and the social graph that creates them represent a new contextual layer on top of the existing web. It’s a layer that brings new opportunities for discovery and personalization in a world where noise is expanding much faster than signal.–VentureBeat blog post Perhaps the Like button is annoying to you or someone you know. …
Mailchimp has transformed the way I make decisions about people on my financial support team. Being able to specifically see who opens and clicks on links inside our monthly newsletter provides an additional dial to evaluate someone’s commitment. Before that layer I relied on these things to discern commitment: Special financial gifts given above the …
“If the game was a zero sum game, then Apple would lose (to Microsoft).”–Steve Jobs Thanks @destinoeric for this link on yesterday’s post. One of my fascinations with Christian ministry philosophy in the US is how often zero-sum thinking inhibits/de-empowers emerging leaders from realizing their God given call early enough in their career to make …
The zero-sum/either-or paradigm is becoming less and less relevant, especially to Gen-Y and lower. Just saw this commercial comparing the Kindle to the iPad. The thing for me is that I love the Kindle AND the iPad. I own an iPad (a gift), and I am definitely considering asking for a Kindle as a gift. …
