Fast Company says here that goalies will soon complain about the “speed” of the soccer ball used in the upcoming FIFA World Cup.
I couldn’t help but think of many pastors, teachers and friends that complain about the speed at which their worlds are moving too. Here’s a pic of the new (speeding) ball:
After reading my friend’s (Steve Thomas of Oneicity) post about the difference between strategy and tactics, (more…)
This Fast Company post is tremendous. Just the pics alone are worth your time.
This Harvard Business article caught my eye. As the Boomers get older (and less electable – John McCain anyone?), Generation X has stepped up. In the US we have Obama, in Britain they now have Cameron.
As someone who voted for Obama though, I wonder if British Xer’s will soon be feeling as Tom Barnett says he now feels about Obama in this WPR article.
Barnett’s gist on our Generation X president:
In his pragmatism and carefulness, Obama is a tinkerer — nothing more. And most Americans intuit that, while such leadership suffices for now, it does not satisfy. We don’t merely want to know how American can accommodate the global future, but how we can actively shape it.
As a voter and a leader, I couldn’t agree more. We need to lead towards shaping futures, not simply accommodating them.
What would you do if
- you worked for a local TV station,
- had video of a cop beating an innocent man,
- and couldn’t get them to run it?
This guy, who used to work for the Seattle Fox station, decided to put the video on “>YouTube. Guess what his station did. Fired him and started showing the video – only after another rival station showed it. In this new (more…)
My sister-in-law gives a wonderful succinct update. Thanks Jalynn, here’s her words:
Stage 3b cancer – she will be starting Chemo in 3 weeks. She is getting the best care at one of the best cancer facilities in the best country in the world. Please keep Diana in your prayers – specifically this week for her to see progress in her recovery from the initial surgery
Of course we continue to be blessed by your prayers and your words.
J
I’ve been part of this chicken-little (the sky is falling!) crowd, but it gets old. I mean let’s get honest – just for a moment.
- What’s the point of church?
Our Latest Creation
Jim and I are presenting our latest creation – Expanding Your Influence – at our next Idea-Party.
When & Where
May 7, 7 PM to 9 PM at Vineyard Community Church in Shoreline.
Specifics
Event Specifics are here.
EYI Site
Website is here.
Slideshare of Program
Powerpoint of EYI Program is here.
We hope to see you there.
Twitter Tag
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U-Stream (Hopefully)
I’ll soon be supplying a u-stream link in case you cannot attend.
This open-endedness brings us to a very important distinction as well. Many leaders believe in what I call the Little House on the Prairie model of the world. It basically looks like this:
Little House on the Prairie
The inherent belief in this system is that the funnel is key. In Little House on the Prairie, that funnel was the church/school. If you wanted to learn what the outside world was doing or thinking, you heard about it (largely) through the church/school. Most organizations are led in this paradigm – an elite (who understands more than the front-liners) that is the funnel – they literally filter the world. (Or at least they think they do.) By definition these leaders are oligarchic. They think they know best and that the peasants don’t.
You don’t know what you don’t know
The real bummer for these elites is not that they’re not smart – they are. Their biggest problem is they don’t know what they’re dumb about – they literally don’t know what they don’t know. When technology (like smart-phones) makes any and all information potentially available, a C-level executive must differentiate herself in a different way. Instead of being the only one to see a special report, she’s now got to know what to do with it – in real time – because chances are, everyone knows about it.
In a word, these disruptive technologies have moved the former audience into a co-creating role. We’ve moved from oligarchies to polyarchies – where the power of connection trumps the power of the money or the information machine.
Demographics – The Numbers Don’t Lie
Three generations are in play right now.
They were the most transformative (and largest until Generation Y) generation in American history.
We number only a measly 70 million and thus haven’t been all that impactful. (more…)
