Facing an uncertain future

April 28, 2010

“I’ve worked at Cape Canaveral for 23 years. We have 3 more shuttle launches then my future is really uncertain.” Gary was seated next to me flying to Atlanta. The end of the space shuttle program is hitting central Florida pretty hard. As I’ve written before, Delta Airline’s seat assignment system is God’s appointment system. [...]

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Extreme dependence on God

April 27, 2010

Extreme dependence on God. As we go about launching movements of evangelism and discipleship, we must learn to rely more and more on His power rather than our own. For us the norm needs to be taking faith risks and asking God in faith, “What do You want us to believe You for now?” The [...]

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Travel is interesting

April 26, 2010

Things that happened on our recent trip in Southeast Asia: “Kay, wake up. There are ants in our bed.” At 4 am. I felt crawling and itching. I thought I must be developing a rash. No rash, just ants! Grammy Kay bumped Abby off a baggage cart when they hit a bump exiting a moving [...]

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Solitude doesn’t mean alone

April 17, 2010

There was another good interaction following my original blogference article. My highly extroverted friend Rich asked: “Being alone drains me. How does an extrovert like me take advantage of “alone time” without me giving in and making contact with someone else? ” I’m repeating this extension of the concept of solitude here in my blog. [...]

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Followup to Solitude as a Leadership Path

April 16, 2010

The Blogference is continuing to generate good interaction even though (fortunately) the firehose flow is reduced somewhat! Justin posted a very insightful comment in a different discussion thread called Get Over Yourself. I and others responded. I’m repeating the (slightly modified) response here since it’s another part of the Solitude as a Path discussion. You [...]

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Solitude as a Path to Develop your Leadership

April 15, 2010

This is my contribution as 1 of 15 posts in RE-think: Campus Crusade’s 3rd Annual Blogference, running April 13-15, 2010. Please join the conversation. Before you stick a “Leader” name badge on the next disciple who can share the Four Spiritual Laws without a single mistake, take heed. He can follow the process with excellence. [...]

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The Blogference is happening

April 14, 2010

The 2010 Blogference has started. With a big bang. Lot’s of thoughts flowing. What’s a blogference? It’s a conference of great ideas without leaving home. But it’s even better. You get to ask the speakers questions. On day 1 yesterday, 5 articles generated 148 tremendous interactions. My article goes up tomorrow (Thursday). But before that, [...]

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What is a Blogference?

April 6, 2010

I will be taking part in the 2010 Campus Crusade for Christ Blogference. What is a blogference? It’s a conference without the con. You don’t travel anywhere. You can attend in your pajamas. The blogference is 13-15 April. The focus is RE-Think. I’ll be writing on the topic Self-Directed Leadership Development. Come on by and [...]

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Falling leaves, in the spring

April 4, 2010

There are leaves everywhere. It’s spring and the leaves are falling! We have laurel oaks in our yard. These are similar to the live oaks. They lose their leaves in the spring. It seems that when the sap rises and new leaves are budding, these oaks give up their old leaves. There is even a [...]

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Academic Labor or Educational Capital

March 28, 2010

We presented the mLearning project at a recent meeting of the heads of our schools of leadership around the world. Our development partner in the academic world made a very strong point, in a presentation of his, about the transition from academic labor to educational capital. His point is that under the older academic labor system, the cost of preparing a course was very low, but the cost of training thousands with that course was very high, based on a professor’s salary to teach students 25-50 at a time.

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