Category: Leadership
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How to make a sign This post appeared first on Sethgodin.typepad.com There it is, at every entrance to the terminal at LaGuardia, one of the busiest airports in the world: TERMINAL CLOSED FOR MAINTENANCE between 12:00 a.m. and 4:00 a.m. until further notice. Ticketed Passengers & Employees ONLY will have access to Terminal. A few…
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For centuries philosophers have known that it is not primarily what we observe that influences us the most. It is how we interpret and make sense of those observation that has the most powerful influence upon us. This is because our brains are CLARITY junkies. YOUR BRAIN AND CLARITY Basically, the brain is constantly trying…
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“It happens way too often: You’re sitting there in the audience, listening to someone talk, and you know that there is a better and great talk in that person, it’s just not the talk he’s giving.” That’s TED’s Bruno Giussani, a man who cannot stand seeing potentially great speakers blow their opportunity. The point of…
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In 2010, Dave Brailsford faced a tough job. No British cyclist had ever won the Tour de France, but as the new General Manager and Performance Director for Team Sky (Great Britain’s professional cycling team), Brailsford was asked to change that. His approach was simple. Brailsford believed in a concept that he referred to as…
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Here is something I recently shared with our staff at Christian Life Church: I have modified it slightly to share with you…hope it helps! You will have more than you think: Many are going through situations that mean they are responsive to God: First Impressions Matter: How easy is it for them to find the…
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I LOVED THIS SO MUCH I HAD TO REPOST Vive la Révolution! Brian Zahnd Pagan astrologers read it in the stars — a new king of the Jews had been born. And so the magi came from the Orient bearing their gifts and accidentally got tangled up with the current King of the Jews —…
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Some years ago I read the book “The Talent Code” by Daniel Cole. In that book Coyle dispels the myth that talent is intrinsic. rather he puts forth an argument that talent is developed and grown. He came to this conclusion by researching what he calls talent hot beds like: • A ramshackle Moscow tennis…
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It is common to hear about “movements” today. We may refer to our student/youth ministry, local church network or denomination as a movement. We want to see “movements to Christ” among unreached people groups and rapid reproducing “church planting movements” where today there are few disciples. Our hearts long for a “movement” across the Church prioritising…
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Part 1 “Greet Andronicus and Junia, my fellow Jews who have been in prison with me. They are outstanding among the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was.” Romans 16:7 (NIV 2011) Paul had already named women as coworkers in Romans 16 and would go on to name several more. Naming someone or…
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Growing up in a tiny, dot-on-the-map town in rural Missouri, Dale Carnegie was a “skinny, unathletic, and fretful” son of a pig farmer, writes Susan Cain in her book on introverts, Quiet. After observing a charismatic public speaker traveling through his hometown, Carnegie, despite his innate introversion and with much determination, became a speaking champion and leader…
