- Write it down. – Encourage your team to write and share their lives with others. (More blogging!)
- Hire smart. – Hire risk-takers. You need people that are willing to embrace change.
- Bring in outsiders. – Bring in outside perspective to expand your thinking. (That’s how we arrived at our live-streaming technology for multi-site.)
- Be flexible. Very flexible. – The same strategy doesn’t work for every situation.
Category: Gospel and Culture
Pressing Through the Creativity Gap
Kevin Cawley posts on really helpful advice from Ira Glass regarding obstacles to creativity and excellence in honing our craft. He explores the creativity gap between our “tastes” and “product” and how to move from mediocre to creative excellence.
- Do a significant volume of work, even if it doesn’t pay.
- Creative excellence takes time.
- Give yourself the space and time to move from mediocre work to meet your higher tastes.
The Other Journal
Here are some of the key articles from the new issue of The Other Journal on Education:
Christ and Caesar?
Seyoon Kim’s scholarship is remarkable (Paul and the New Perspective, Origin of Paul’s Gospel). I look forward to the release of his latest work on Paul and the Roman Empire called Christ and Caesar. It appears that he will refute a lot of the counter-imperial claims made by some scholars such as N.T. Wright.