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On Christian Leadership
A fresh exploration of Christian leadership principles.
Organizational Leadership
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Reflection
I am a servant. (leader)
Confession: Although I have been able to recite to you the correct Sunday school definition of servant-leadership ever since my 7th grade ELCA church youth leader, Amy, drilled it into our heads, I think, to my shame, I am just now coming to understand it. I am coming to understand that, in my soul, I’ve always […]
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Interviewed on The Gospel Driven Entrepreneur
I was recently interviewed on The Gospel Driven Entrepreneur Podcast by P.J. Simmons. It was a fun conversation. We talked about: How I got into Web design and why I started Mere Agency Fears I had when starting the business My biggest failures and successes in running the business How the gospel drives what I […]
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How the Tesla Model S is Made
I LOVE this. “We want to push the boundaries of what can be done by robots, versus humans.” More of this!
Commentary
Why Vision is More Important than Strategy
Michael Hyatt, former CEO and current Chairman of Thomas Nelson Publishers (largest Christian publishing company in the world) shares why vision is more important than strategy. He shares his story about how as a manager, he took the least profitable division of the company and turned it completely around. A key excerpt: > For example, […]
Essay
Focus on building a stellar team, not hiring stellar individuals
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”).
Commentary
6 Myths About Results Only Work Environments
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.
Commentary
The Rise of Developeronomics
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.
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Conference Going is About People
Is going to a conference (SXSW, FOWD, AEA, Catalyst, Q, MAX, etc) about education, professional networking, or is it a good excuse for work to pay for a vacation? Â Some of us might answer “All of the above!” And most of us would agree with that gutsy answer. I’d argue that if you are going […]
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Jason Fried: Why Work Doesn’t Happen at Work
Jason Fried’s TED talk on why the office is often the least productive work place of all. Most people, when asked when or where their most productive work times and spaces are, mention a host of places EXCEPT NORMAL BUSINESS HOURS AT THE OFFICE. The simple yet brilliant question that follows then is, why do […]
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Does a Web Team Belong under Marketing or IT?
(Does a Web Team belong under marketing or IT? This is probably not a new thought, and I probably stole it from somewhere long ago, but I can’t remember sources. It is relevant because the question has come up recently for me and some colleagues.) Since the inception of the popular Web, the ubiquity of […]
Commentary
Going Internet-only and Making it Free
At the panel discussion I participated in at the NRB Convention, I was asked to explain why Desiring God pulled out broadcasting its radio program to distribute content via the Internet. The debate is still (three years later!) a hot one, and one that was made before my time. So I’ll point you to DG’s […]