One of the most courageous women I know

April 17, 2011

She is one of the most courageous women I know. I watched a video she released today, and I cried. I showed it to Kay, and she joined me in crying. Joyful crying. Kay and I have 2 videos from Christine we want to share with you. She and her special-guy husband made a huge [...]

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Simplify

March 28, 2011

Have you noticed how things tend towards increasing complexity? As time goes by, layers are added. Things are piled on. I like the approach promoted by Ward Cunningham, the inventer of the wiki. He asks, “Simplicity is the shortest path to a solution. You are always taught to do as much as you can. I say, [...]

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Technologies for a startup church

March 24, 2011

Dad, I’m pretty sure I’ll be asked to set up the church local area network (LAN) when I join Imago Dei church. I’ll probably set up some type of internet connection. What do you recommend for our startup church for file sharing, printer sharing, and internet connection? My son is finishing his degree from Dallas [...]

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Operational and Strategic Technology

March 21, 2011

By 2014, Information Technology shops will begin to split into two units — operational and strategic — under separate leadership. So claims an interesting video presentation by the Pink Elephant group, a leader in IT management. The entire video is interesting. This claim is made at the 7:56 point in the video. We discussed this video [...]

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Bouncing down the runway during an earthquake in Japan

March 15, 2011

We were taxiing to the end of the runway, maybe 5 minutes before full power would be applied and we would soon take off. Then it began to feel like we were driving over rough construction. The huge 747 bounced up and down, the wings flapped. It wasn’t nearly as bad as some mid-air turbulence [...]

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Developing Leaders in Technology

March 9, 2011

Richard has been to every one. Oumar has been to most as have several others. At this last Global Technology Leaders meeting, we had 28 leaders from 12 of the 13 areas of the world. When I was asked to pioneer the role of Chief Technology Officer for Campus Crusade for Christ, my assignment was [...]

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Leading with Information

February 25, 2011

“It is my observation that your organization doesn’t pay much attention to mission effectiveness.” A business leader observed this with one of our top leaders in Campus Crusade for Christ. Many of us agree that he is correct. We pay attention to good relationships. We pay attention to strong spiritual life. We pay attention to [...]

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Living in God’s Wisdom

February 23, 2011

Not only could God’s acts not be done better; a better way to do them can not be imagined. … We must by the exercise of faith and by prayer bring the truth of God’s infinite wisdom into the practical world of our day-by-day experience. … Most of us go through life praying a little, [...]

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The internet is our mountain

February 15, 2011

I’ve been looking out over the beautiful mountains surrounding our conference room in Addis Ababa for the past several days. I’m sitting in the room training and strategizing on using the internet to expand our ability to reach everyone. The words of Isaiah 40:9 have been a very real picture: You who bring good news, [...]

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3 thoughts on Maturing as a leader

February 5, 2011

I’m a 59 year old leader. I want to finish well. I think we all do. I read three things today that are insightful in finishing well. 1. @destinoeric retweeted @crawfordloritts: One of the signs of spiritual maturity is that you no longer charge others for the deficits in your life. Eph. 4:31-32 I’ve always [...]

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