by johnh | Jan 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
By John Harrell Details and Deadlines I once served in a ministry that involved managing lots of details on tight deadlines across long days, occasionally for weeks at a time. Not long into that period, some of the people on my team came to me and said, “We love you;...
by Kat Bair | Aug 22, 2022 | Big Ideas, Blog
We’ve all been in a council meeting, team huddle, or quarterly review where it seems like everyone is so afraid of having a real conversation that nothing gets said. Platitudes and polite deference can keep us from making real progress by glossing over points of...
by Kat Bair | Aug 16, 2022 | Blog, Client Stories
In his 2017 book, Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, Jason Schreier outlines the stories of 10 video games and how they were made. Some were astounding successes by solo guys in their bedrooms, and some were colossal failures by huge studios that, despite tens (if not...
by Kat Bair | Aug 9, 2022 | Big Ideas, Blog
Economics of Unlimited Growth If you’ve ever taken a high school economics class, you know that the essential visual tool of the economist is a line graph. Supply and demand curves, inflation curves, GDP curves, basically all of the significant ideas of economics can...
by Kat Bair | May 10, 2022 | Blog, Client Stories
If someone called you today and offered your ministry two pregnant sows, a boar, and around 50 chickens, what would you do? I can’t speak for your animal husbandry expertise personally, but it seems the vast majority of ministry leaders and innovators would never even...