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One Event With Many Messages

September 21, 2011 — Leave a comment

October has been an amazing month for me the last few years. Why October? I have had the unique opportunity to travel to Atlanta, GA to attend the Catalyst Conference. Catalyst is a conference focused towards church leadership that also encompasses on leadership outside of the church. Where the Willow Creek Leadership Summit hits a similar target, it focuses primarily on the age range of 45+ year old people, Catalyst seems to be geared towards the younger crowd.

In this post, I wanted to simply inform you of Catalyst (because it is coming up and worth your investment to go) and the impact it has had on myself. This last year was one where I saw change coming in my future and knew I was in a place of re-assessing a lot in my work life. While I was doing all of this, I learned a lot about various areas.

I don’t believe that I will be going this year, but thanks to technology I’ll get to catch up at a later date and watch twitter feeds!!

Putting Yourself Aside to Help

Scott Harrison shared about the roots behind the start of Charity Water. How would a single trip change the course of your life?

 

You Will Encounter the Rough Times

Perry Noble hit home with me on this one because he really zero’d in on the dry times in life and how we see this handled in the Bible.

 

The Master of All Genius

Seth Godin was as masterful as always in his talk on transformation and being a Linchpin.

 

A New Experience Can Rock Your World

Have you ever run into a new product, band, television show, or something; and you were initially critical? This was my experience with Gungor. Their initial sound wasn’t striking with me, but all of a sudden this song happened and it blew me away. When I moved outside if my own thought process, I was entered in with some new music that expanded my world and gave me an experience like no other.

 

Catalyst in Pictures

If you get a chance, enjoy the surprise around every corner that takes place at Catalyst!

 

 

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Think Crazy

August 30, 2011 — Leave a comment

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” by Henry Ford

We don’t need more pleasers, we need more innovators that change history. How are you doing your part?

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Logic from Peers

August 12, 2011 — Leave a comment

WOW… this is a great logical video from a teenage girl who is disgusted by the riots by the youth in London. Very powerful statement!

 

Way to lead!!!

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What Is Your Purpose?

August 1, 2011 — Leave a comment

Have you ever been in a place where you give judgement on someone before you fully look into who they are, you simply look on the outside and judge? I am sure none of you have done that and I am in the minority (insert sarcasm)! Early on, I didn’t like Rick Warren. I can’t even tell you why I didn’t. I am not sure other than I was a dumb 20 something that knew nothing. But you know, that with age can tend to come with more maturity.

Well, most of the time it should.

Over the course of the last few years, I have grown to respect and look up to the wisdom that Rick Warren holds. I know he is far from perfect and quite frankly I don’t want to be around perfect people. Why? because they are not perfect and they think they are perfect. They are annoying.

I have yet to read Purpose Driven Life. Some day, I will need to read it to grasp the wisdom that Rick Warren has put into that book, but for now I glean from his twitter posts, on-line articles, and videos. Today’s TED Talk comes from Rick when he spoke at TED in 2006. This is an incredible message and I am pretty sure that he is the same way in this video as he is in his church, and you can see why Saddleback Church is doing some incredible things. As goes the leader, as goes the followers.

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Too Big To Change?

July 11, 2011 — Leave a comment

“A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it’s harder to turn quickly.”

-Tony Hsieh 

If you have worked for a large business, then you know how true this is. If you haven’t and you think I am wrong.. then you need to work for a large company!

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Are You Willing To Come Around & Help?

July 7, 2011 — Leave a comment

I am one of those nerds who enjoys watching the Tour de France. What can I say! As someone who enjoys biking (mt. & road), this race has always been exciting to watch what happens. It is one of the greatest tests of the riders and lets be honest one of the greatest tests of any athletic event out there. Yes, the Iron Man triathalon is crazy hard, but that is over in a day, this goes for 21 Days!

The whole country rally’s around the race and it welcomes in the riders and tourists with open arms. Now, I know you are saying “NOT EVERYONE welcomes them in” and I am sure you are right, but from what I have seen on TV and heard, a lot do! Some go to large extremes to welcome the riders and those of us watching from thousands of miles away. Like these farmers

 

 

Now.. what do you do to rally around the local events in your area? I live in Rochester Hills, MI and I hear more complaints each year around the Brooksie Way 1/2 Marathon than I hear excitement from the residents. Yes you are inconvenienced, but I challenge you to step out of your normal routine and ask, How Could I Help! You’d be amazed at how giving a few hours out of your normal routine on the first Sunday in October could impact you!.

What is going on in your city that you could support?

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TED Talk of the Day.. A Future Beyond Traffic Gridlock

July 7, 2011 — Leave a comment

Today’s TED Talk of the Day features Bill Ford. Are you wondering if there is a link to the Ford Motor Company? If you are wondering that then your wonderings are completely correct! He is the great grandson of the inventor of the Model T and the assembly line, Henry Ford.

Mr. Ford does a great talk about the involvement of the environment and the automobile industry!

 

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TED Talk of the Day!

July 5, 2011 — Leave a comment

I have taken a short hiatus from the TED Talk of the Day.

 

I needed to view a few videos and prepare for the next stretch of the videos. Today we launch out with Tim Ferriss. Tim wrote the book “The 4-Hour Work Week”.

 

 

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Greatest Generation? Colbert Has An Opinion.

June 25, 2011 — Leave a comment

This year seemed to be a strong one for celebrities to give commencement addresses at major universities. Harvard, Dartmoth, Stanford, and the list goes on of universities who had a major name in the entertainment industry dawn a graduation gown to address the students who were stepping out of college life and into “real world”.

I have watched a few of them myself and none of them overtly impressed me like Stephen Colbert’s speech at Northwestern University. Not only was he addressing the graduating body, but he was doing so as a graduate of Northwestern. Carrying out his true fashion with great humor, he also gave an amazing inspiring antidote to them as they take the next step in their journey!

 

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Leadership Thoughts

June 24, 2011 — Leave a comment

The leadership role is an inevitable reflection of people’s needs and challenges in modern life. Leadership is therefore a profound concept, with increasingly complex implications, driven by an increasingly complex and fast-changing world.

Leadership and management are commonly seen as the same thing, which they are not. Leadership is also misunderstood to mean directing and instructing people and making important decisions on behalf of an organization. Effective leadership is much more than these.

Good leaders are followed chiefly because people trust and respect them, rather than the skills they possess. Leadership is about behaviour first, skills second.

This is a simple way to see how leadership is different to management:

Management is mostly about processes.

Leadership is mostly about behaviour.

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