“To learn, fail …
If nothing ever breaks you don’t really know how strong it is.
Strike out fear of failure.
Reward success and failure equally …
Punish inactivity”
David Kelley, IDEO
Category: QUOTABLE or THOUGHT PROVOKING
Rewards
Reward people based on accomplishment, rather than on being a model employee. People … do some of their best work away from their desk … Dullness is the just reward of people who work all day and never take serious breaks.
David Kelley, IDEO, quoted by Tom Peters
Good Community?
Working towards good community, in a social policy framework that is (more often than not) bedevilled by a conflicted conceptual grasp of ‘community’ and ‘community cohesion’ I note the following from Robert Bellah:
“A good community is one in which there is argument, even conflict, about the meaning of the shared values and goals, and certainly about how they will be actualized in everyday life. Community is not about silent consensus; it is a form of intelligent, reflective life, in which there is indeed consensus, but where the consensus can be challenged and changed – often gradually, sometimes radically – over time”
Sailing in Storms
I was reflecting on the disturbing difficulties many of my friends and I have to navigate as we sail through life when I came across this African proverb:\r\n
“Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors”
Training
We are not trained for ministry but in ministry.
\r\n… said Eddie Gibbs, guru to church thinkers across the world.
Pioneering Church
The pioneer church breaks new ground in order to be where the church has not yet been.\r\n\r\nBut that goes for traditional churches too ….
God will provide…?
God’s provision comes after the commitment not before ….\r\n\r\n…. it is signs following not signs preceding.
Creative or not …
… do some creative thinking.
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Today.
Hard Working Pastor?
It is the pastor’s responsibility to get the work done – but not to do it all!\r\n\r\n+Mike of Bristol
Grow up with big people
“If you hire people smaller than yourself you will end up with a company of midgets.\r\n\r\nIf you hire people bigger than yourself you will end up with a company of giants.”