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Friday, August 11th, 2006Session 3, Bono: Jubilee, AIDS and Poverty Jesus begins his ministry with Jubilee (Luke 4). An era of grace. Most satisfying experience of 2006: Not just writing music, which is his gift. The most satisfying was his SERVICE, through the One campaign. ONE aims to represent the poor and vulnerable with honor. They deserve the [...]
Willowcreek, Part 2
Friday, August 11th, 2006Session 2, Jim Collins (Good to Great, Built to Last): “When Business Thinking Fails the Church” Published a monograph after Good to Great regarding social sector leadership (long form essay). Offers “penetrating insights” re. differences b/w business and social sector leadership. It’s a well-intentioned idea to say that churches should be run like a business, [...]
Live blogging from the Willowcreek Leadership Summit, Part 1
Friday, August 11th, 2006I’m crashing the Summit for a few hours this morning at the Brooklyn’s satellite site — Christian Cultural Center. Since CCC has WiFi, why not live blog my notes? Session 1, Dr. Ashish Nanda (Harvard MBA Professor): “The Risky Business of Hiring Stars” Willowcreek Case Study at Harvard controversial “Create disequelibrium to force people to [...]
Leadership Summit – Discounts still available
Saturday, July 29th, 2006Discounts still available through Mission New York. The Willow Creek Association Leadership Summit 2006 hosted by Christian Cultural Center via satellite is almost here! It takes place Thursday, August 10 – Saturday, August 12, from 10:00am – 6:00pm. Right now you can still register at the discount rate of $105. Availability is limited. Registration is [...]
Strategic planning 101
Wednesday, July 12th, 2006A friend recently asked for help organizing her thoughts on a proposed ministry initiative that she wanted to present to her pastor. Basically, she needed help anticipating the pastor’s questions and concerns and asked how to prepare. For all you strategic planner’s out there, here is my email response. What do you think? __________________________________ Hmm, [...]
In the Arena
Sunday, July 9th, 2006Pastor Roger quoted this in church today, talking about the pursuit of destiny (not just blessing): “It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the [...]
Leadership, according to US News and World Report
Friday, October 28th, 2005“Leadership, as the public tells the pollsters, is in disappointingly short supply. So the 25 people profiled in the following pages are a heartening exception to the rule.†Article. My (quick) two-cents (I haven’t actually read the articles yet): Rick Warren is the only religious figure on the list. Is his inclusion more about book [...]
Love them enough to pay the bill
Sunday, September 25th, 2005“Then he added, as he seemed at times to look straight at Mr. Bush: ‘It is not so important what we say, it is important what we do. Defining moments of history cannot be defined by rhetoric and words or anger, or soliciting people to respond in a tempestuous way. But real leadership is defined [...]
Refreshing
Tuesday, September 13th, 2005Will Sampson had a great post about the need for the officials who failed to respond appropriately to Katrina to take responsibility. President Bush was the first to do so today, when he said: “Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government and to the extent the federal government didn’t [...]
Rudy has the cover of Prism magazine
Wednesday, September 7th, 2005His “Surfacing Hispanic Leaders†is the September-October cover story. Check it out here. (Thanks for the shout-out!)
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