“‘Light’ a short film directed by David Parker, initially began as a project intended to bring awareness to energy waste. Bleeding, crying lights were meant to metaphorically parallel the way in which we invisibly squander our natural resources without much thought. While the original sentiment remains, the film also grew into a poetic statement about …
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I realized that if I’m going to increase my effectiveness as a leader then my productivity must increase by an exponential factor. The first step in stewarding my time more effectively was integrating a task management program into my weekly routine. “Things” for Mac has been a great solution for me and has insured that …
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The potential to influence and interact with people using social media is unlimited, yet the focus of many ministry’s online efforts is on presence and impressions. Presence: “Having a website,” or for many it’s “having an iPhone app.” Simply being online is no longer valuable when there are millions (billions) of web pages, Twitter, Google+ …
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“I theme my days” —Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter and Square The entire four minute interview reveals great thoughts on time management, productivity, and focus. I only have two theme days, Monday and Friday, and realized how helpful it would be to give each day a theme. Here are Dorsey’s theme days: Monday: Management and …
Providing exact details to your leaders can sometimes limit their creativity, faith, and capacity to solve large problems in your ministry. Came across this tweet today: Her tweet related to the lean startup movement that focuses on starting a company with the smallest and most functional product and then modifying that product based on feedback …
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“We use 1 week experiements…somebody will have an idea and we will figure out a way to prove if the idea is going to work.” I love the idea of one week experiments to test the quality of an idea! Can’t see the video? Click here to view it on the web. Tweet
Steve Blank, a lifetime entrepreneur and Professor at recently blogged about his visit to Finland and the start-up culture in the country. “What makes Finland such a wonderful place to live and raise a family may ultimately be what kills it as a startup hub. There’s a safety net in almost every part of one’s …
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“While the hit to fundraising has hurt many not-for-profits, the more fundamental core problem is strategic. These institutions lack a strategy for connecting their mission with their ability to deliver. In short, this is a crisis of coherence.”—Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi from a recent Harvard Business Review article. The article notes how many non-profits …
Ronin Research wrote recently on 11 Principles for Responding to Disruption. I found the diagram the chart they shared that synthesized the steps needed to effectively react to the ever changing culture. The entire article is well worth a read. Here’s some of my thoughts in reaction: 3-Gather Intelligence. Let’s end the days of gut …
“COMMON is a creative community for rapidly prototyping social ventures.”–source In this video Alex Bogusky, one of Common’s founders, shares some vision and an event that he hosted in Boulder to kick-off this new community. A few quotes from the video that inspired me: “Saving the world is super fun but it hasn’t been presented …
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