Rising above a website or facebook page is the need for ministries to seriously think through their video presence online. This is from Luke W’s blog: As online video continues to grow, it’s interesting to see how people are consuming and accessing this medium. The average US Internet user watches 182 videos online in a …
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“People are trading in their work day for work-moments when they go to the office”–Jason Fried This is a pragmatic and insightful talk about how and why work gets done or doesn’t. “You don’t go to sleep, you go towards sleep.” –Fried compares the sleep cycle to the work cycle. I love this because it’s the …
Students can not only plant churches, but lead a church planting movement! I found this out on a recent trip to Manila, the Philippines. This short video is of the Melvin, Pastor of Stillwaters Church, casting vision and describing what his student led and planted church is doing. Melvin’s heart and the model of truly …
“We need more citizens who feel agency — that they can actually influence the future of their communities. Otherwise, there is complacency and resignation. Give a Minute encourages agency. Go ahead. Share your ideas. Change your city.”–from a recent NY Times post. Check out Give a Minute’s home page, which includes not only idea generation …
I’m all about what leaders should not do to make them more effective but often times when I want to grow I’m hungry to know what TO DO! Here’s the traditional/baseline/average path of grow I have seen many leaders take: Their growth happens PRIMARILY during significant leadership experiences, which for all of us are few …
Hustle. Not killing themselves by working long hours or never taking a break or frantically sharing vision. But demonstrating their passion, vision, and convictions through intentional actions that cause those whom they lead to want to take on some new challenge. I know I’m around a solid leader when I start dreaming of executing big …
“What we discovered with this process change is that when tasks were not done in one day it was an indication of an impediment that no-one had thought to mention, or even acknowledged as an impediment.” –from the post “Unearthing Impediments by Doing Less” by Tobias Mayer Found a gem of a post via Twitter. …
Have you ever gotten into an opinion battle? My guess is that if you were “lower” than the other person you lost the battle. “I suspect that the reason for the reluctance to engage in experiments is that no one (for example Michael from Whole Foods) wants to take any risks. Everyone just wants to …
“If I start a ministry then people should come.” “Attendance equals commitment/alignment.” “Those who have the most external gifts and abilities always lead” I highly recommend Daniel Pink‘s book A Whole New Mind if this kind of stuff is interesting but you have yet to get a 10,000 foot view of the paradigm. Drew Lundgren’s …
“The teams that are engineer heavy and creative light have not worked nearly as well as the teams that are creative heavy and engineer light.”–Fred Wilson from a recent blog post Fred Wilson invests in tech companies as a venture capitalist and has begun to invest more in companies that demonstrate creativity MORE than technical …
