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permission
I ran across this article today about a company reinventing their brand (via brand autopsy). the thing that struck me was this section at the end of the article (emphasis mine):
‘Second-rate’ creative
The reputation of the shop was equally nondescript. “They were always given credit for being good with account services, because Ray Mithun was [...]
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some thoughts on processes
I found myself in a conversation earlier today where I said that I would rather trust a good (community) process rather than my own biasses in making a leadership decision that effects the community. This conversation got me thinking about the tension between trusting in a process and trusting in God.
Earlier this year I [...]
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Somehow I forgot to hit the “post button” on Monday when I wrote this, but I thought the ideas were still good enough to share so here goes…
Seth Godin on Enormity:
…when confronted with enormity, worldviews change. And if you want to engage with someone, you have no choice but to understand that. You don’t have [...]
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keep people in the know
Dan over at Adaptive Path wrote a good piece yesterday about how failure to acknowledge a problem to the people you’re serving can lead to a lot of confusion and lack of trust. Basically he (along with many customers apparently) have been experiencing a bug in their Tivo systems that cause the boxes [...]
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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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