Explorations into theology, technology, leadership, and culture.
Please excuse my politics, and don’t take this as a tacit endorsement for any particular underling candidate, (I’m still undecided though I am starting to lean.) “Can’t win” has always seemed circular to me. How does a candidate win? If people vote for them. Who do people vote for? Whoever they think has the best […]
John Beeson asserts that work-life balance is an unobtainable myth, and that we instead need a system and support structures to help us manage our lives, tasks, and time. I couldn’t agree more, and I think there are immense parallels in the ministry world. Here are some key thoughts in the article:
There is an important management axiom articulated by Jim Collins in “Good to Great“, when hiring, don’t seek to fill an “empty position” in your organization, seek to hire an exceptional individual (“get them on the bus”).
Great post on the Harvard Business Review about Five Things You Should Stop Doing in 2012. I think you should stop doing them immediately. 1. Responding Like A Trained Monkey – (compulsively checking your email) 2. Mindless Traditions – Slavery to unnecessary tasks for the task’s sake. (Though I think some traditions are worth keeping, […]
Evangelical Retreats and the Local Church – Just by way of a challenge to my typical thinking… ‘…when we feel like our spiritual life needs a boost why don’t we ever head over to our own local churches instead of away from them to parachuch retreat ministries? When was the last time you heard someone […]
Watch this excellent presentation on productivity myths and truths by Tony Schwartz, a productivity and performance consultant, over at the 99percent blog (note, this is a popular creativity site, nothing to do with occupy wall street, sort of its antithesis…)
A ROWE (results only work environment) is a fairly progressive, and extremely effective business/organization culture and practice. Our current control-based management mindsets are based on a bygone era. A throwback to the factories in the industrial revolution.
I often hear this question when a reviewer is comparing two Web services is “why should I pay for service X, when service Y does the same thing for free?” Answer: because the free version will probably disappear. Maciej at Pinboard explains the issue.
My new favorite Bible reading Web app, eBible has just released their reading plan functionality. Select one of their 18 plans (topical, NT, OT, through the Bible), and they will send you a daily email with reminder to read.
According to Venkatesh Rao in Forbes Magazine: Software Developers are the new precious metals. Venkatesh has a pretty bleak (realistic?) outlook on the global economy, and he is suggesting that everyone who is able should invest in a quality software developer.
Charles Specht asks a hard question: have you given any thought to why your men’s ministry, women’s ministry, children’s ministry, music ministry (ouch! hands off!), conferences, classes, and various meetings exist within your church lately? Are the “ministries” in your church killing your actual effectiveness in The Great Commission that Jesus gave us: to go […]
It’s coming. I have some renewed energy and incentive to finally get this site in shape. In case you haven’t been playing along, this Summer, I undertook the reconstruction of my Web site live and in public. Well, I underestimated the impact on life that a third child would have and so lost steam. But […]