The earliest Christians were eager to embrace and exploit recent advances in travel and literature to aid and multiply their efforts to spread the good news of Jesus with new people. Under the rule of Rome, inter-city travel became possible and safe in ways it had not been before Paul’s day or even decades after. […]
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Fast Failure: “Fail and Get On With It” – Tom Peters Soichiro Honda: “success can only result through repeated failure and introspection” from Home Cell Group Explosion, by Joel Comiskey, Houston: Touch Publications, 146 pages. (1/8/01)
Presbyterians have traditionally been…well, traditional. And we have traditionally been slow to change. When churches started using a new high technology instrument called the pipe organ, Presbyterians were among the last churches to get on board with the new wind of change, insisting songs must always be sung without accompaniment. There’s the joke – How […]
SEVEN UNCHANGEABLE RULES OF CHANGE 1. People do what they perceive is in their best interest, thinking as rationallya s circumstances allow them to think. 2. People are not inherently anti-change. Most will, in fact, embrace initiatives provided the change has positive meaning for them. 3. People thrive under creative challenge, but wilt under negativness. […]
Though many people make the transition from individual contributor to manager, many, including CEOs, fail to make the even more difficult transition from manager to leader. Their failure to make the latter transition prevents many CEOs from recognizing their most potent lever for change and their ultimate source of power in the organization. The most […]
Too much comfort is dangerous. Literally Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley did an experiment some time ago that involved introducing an amoeba into a perfectly stress-free environment: ideal temperature, optimal concentration of moisture, constant food supply. The amoeba had an environment to which it had to make no adjustment whatsoever. So you […]
Tags: adversity, challenge, change, comfort, James 1:2-4, laziness, perseverance, persistence, Proverbs 6:6-11, risk, Romans 5:3-5, stress, suffering
“People change what they do less because they are given analysis that shifts their thinking than because they are shown a truth that influences their feelings.” -John Kotter and Dan Cohen, The Heart of Change, 2002.