Archive for November, 2006
thematic goal setting
On Monday night the worship staff team at First Free (including myself) sat around a room and tried to answer one simple question: “What is the one thing that we must accomplish in the next 6-9 months in order to declare success?” Before I get to the answer that we came up with let [...]
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inject more life into your time
I’m reading You Don’t Need A Title To Be A Leader by Mark Sandborn. I’m about half-way through, and so far there are a lot of great quotes from this book. One that caught my attention was:
You can’t inject more time into your life. The challenge for all of us is to [...]
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I’ve had this quote hanging on my office wall for a while that I thought I would share:
The world is not set up to facilitate the best any more than it is set up to facilitate the worst. It doesn’t depend on brilliance or innovation because if it did, the system would be unpredictable. [...]
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notes from kem pt 3
Framing depends on your audience (file sharing vs. stealing music)
If you say ‘yes’ too often you lose your credibility. You’ll spend more time saying ‘no’ (redirecting is saying no in a positive way)
You can’t fix problems by throwing a policy at it
Is it a tool or just cool?
What problem is this solving?
What is the [...]
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notes from kem pt 2
idea: Know your audience (demographically and personality)
Focus your center and those attributes will spill over into other areas
Why would these people spend their time and attention on you (is it worth the effort?)
What is their comfort zone?
What do they do with their extra time, money, etc.
What do they hate?
We need to follow our leaders
idea: Remove [...]
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