by Kat Bair | May 20, 2024 | Big Ideas, Blog
We’ve talked on this blog before about the importance of being crystal clear on who you are as a community before embarking on the work of innovation. About how, when a community doesn’t have a clear sense of mission and values, change is difficult, because, without a...
by Kat Bair | May 15, 2024 | Big Ideas, Blog
A dear friend of mine in ministry (we’ll call him Brian) was recently assigned a coach by his supervisors. Their relationship is beginning with an on-site visit, and in the lead-up to the visit, his mounting unease about having an outsider in his space led to a lot of...
by Kat Bair | May 7, 2024 | Big Ideas, Blog
We have spent the last four weeks establishing the basics of an innovation team: why you need one, how to build one, how to equip one, how to use one, and finally, we’ll cover how to make it work for you long-term. One of our co-founders, Mark DeVries, wrote this book...
by Kat Bair | May 1, 2024 | Big Ideas, Blog
Over the last three weeks, we’ve been talking about innovation teams – why you need them, how to assemble them, and how to equip them. But now that you have this team – what do you do with them? Here, it bears a moment of reflection back to our first entry...
by Kat Bair | Apr 24, 2024 | Big Ideas, Blog
As a parent of toddlers, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the ways we teach people what we expect of them. How do people learn to share, take turns, have a conversation? How do we learn what our role is in a family, in a community? There are so many parts...
by Kat Bair | Apr 19, 2024 | Big Ideas, Blog
This is the second post in a series. Read the first post here. In Silicon Valley, there is this persistent mythic character: the Founder. Someone like Steve Jobs who is seen as brilliant, innovative, visionary, independent. These lone savant, millionaire,...
