1. Do something that was not possible three years ago. 2. Do something you are extremely passionate about. 3. Don’t compromise. 4. If you feel comfortable, you’re probably not doing it right. 5. Don’t write your obituary too early.
“Far too many new leaders don’t effectively diagnose their situations and tailor their strategies accordingly. Then, because they don’t understand the situation, they make unnecessary mistakes.”–Michael Watkins from The First 90 Days Tim Casteel shared this quote in the comments of a previous post titled Giving Away Your Ministry. I fell into this category as …
“We are mission driven but medium agnostic.”–Scott Belsky Belsky runs Behance, a platform for creative professionals, and authored Making Ideas Happen, which was discussed on the recent RE-Think Blogference. The quote resonated with me because so often discussions about integrating social media into ministry center around which tool the “expert” prefers instead of which tool …
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This space has to make you work 10x more creatively. Check out Skype’s new headquarters: this picture and more are found here.
Eric Ries presented on The Lean Startup at SXSWI and this was one of his slides: If We Can Reduce the Time Between Pivots Here’s the definition of a pivot: “a pivot occurs when a start-up tests a new direction while still keeping one metaphorical foot in the original business,” from a post on …
The Blogference is an online conference that I have hosted for the last four years. It seeks to start ministry conversations and connect ministry starters around the world. This year’s theme is Evolve and the vision is that ministry leaders would not only discern the changes in culture and technology, but evolve and make significant …
“Something held as an established tradition.”–Definition of Dogma Established traditions work well only when the context from which those traditions emerged stays relatively equal. Unfortunately many of the traditions that made ministries successful are now becoming increasing less effective and archaic. Yet the traditions continue. Jared Spool spoke at SXSWI on the topic of design …
The longer a ministry leader stays in a leadership role the more future-oriented decisions OTHERS should be making. There are core decisions that a ministry leader can and should make every year, especially related to ones where a majority of resources are being released. If a ministry has not grown significantly in the past 2-3 …
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Marissa Mayer (VP of Google) presented a seminar today at SXSWI on Google’s location based technology, specifically in mobile devices. Check out these statistics: and this one… Here’s my favorite stat: 2 years. Everyday. I would love to see more innovation that results in EXPONENTIAL increases of time and productivity!
Vince Marotte is the Online Pastor for Gateway Church in Austin, and writes a great blog on new media, leadership, creativity, and ministry. He shared this short video from Seth Godin on leadership that I wanted to pass on: Some of my favorite quotes: Managers figure out what they want done, and get other people …
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