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. …
80% of fatalities happen on the DESCENT from the summit of Mt. Everest. “The biggest lesson I learned from climbing Mt. Everest is that getting to the top is only half the challenge.” –a climber that had to turn back just 350 feet from the summit. A big part of leading change is seeing your …
Pursue people before/over skills. Skill development can be like a dog chasing his tail–there is a sense of efficiency from the point of view of the dog but the observer sees otherwise. If you are a young leader then there is a good chance you have not yet discovered your strongest skill/ability; you could be …
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I’m a huge fan and advocate of Dropbox. However I’ve noticed those who are beginner to intermediate in technology struggle to use Dropbox to its capacity. I have been recommending Gmail more and more as a way to store and share files. Not Google Docs, but Gmail itself. Why It’s Better Everyone (except teenagers supposedly) …
Two of the biggest changes I made that I was not only proud of but also increased my ministry’s effectiveness were the two most criticized decisions by others. I’m surprised when people seem to make an intentional effort to find and give you their opinion, even when these people often have no stake in the …
