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December 30, 2006
Year End Reflection, 2006
Filed under: Life's Journey
I ended my day last Friday (December 22) and checked out of work for the remainder of the year. For the most part, I have been unplugged with the occasional email clearing. So many others are off too which makes it a pretty light week. Jamaica and I enjoyed Christmas in Los Angeles, our second time since being married that it was just the two of us. It was quite nice! We took a trip to the ocean to watch the sunset. If we can't have the cold and snow we might as well relish what we do have!
We attended a funeral just outside of Bakersfield on Wednesday, before driving up to Mendocino (150 miles northeast of San Francisco on the coast) that same day. I am sitting in a little Bed & Breakfast, just a block from the ocean. We arrived late Wednesday night to a complete ghost town - not a light in sight. Come to find out a huge wind storm had knocked out the power 12 hours earlier. Fortunately, the outage was fixed by the morning.
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December 26, 2006
Hiring Process
Filed under: Brad Works
Had breakfast today with James Craft, following up with details for the Foursquare NextGen Summit event next year. I was telling James about the new hire I just made to come on and support the event from an administrative perspective. While filling him in on the details of the new team member, I was also explaining some of my philosophy for hiring. In general, I try to always:
- Hire up. I like to find people that are better/smarter/faster than me.
- Hire trouble makers. I prefer people that will take the ball and run, not stand back and wait for the pass to come. This almost always results in people that stir up trouble, but I'd much rather clean up a few messes than spend my time trying to get people to work.
- Hire strengths, manage weaknesses. I'm all about playing to people's strengths. This often results in people who are not well balanced. The designer who designs well, but is bad with deadlines. The project manager who is a detail monster but is not good with people. It's much easier for me to manage a weakness when I know the strengths are being lived out large.
While this is not my definitive hiring process, these are some key components for me.
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December 20, 2006
Spiritual Reading
Filed under: God, Faith & Spirituality
Just finished reading Eat This Book by Eugene Peterson. This has been one of the best books I've read on the topic of spiritual reading in a long time. Peterson's unique style of writing, coupled with his obvious desire to make sure that Scripture is not lost to words on paper, is piercing.
"Words written are radically removed from their originating context..."
"Every word I hear, everything I see in my imagination as this story unfolds, involves me relationally, pulls me into participation, matters to my core identity, affects who I and and what I do."
Not only has this book re-introduced me to the Book, it has also helped my understanding of communication at its core. The ability to connect the message bearer with the message receiver is no easy task! Yet everyone of us attempts this everyday through phone calls, emails, coffee dates and birthday cards.
The art of spiritual reading is truly an art, as is the art of communication in general. Thanks Eugene for penning a real beauty!
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December 6, 2006
Jesus Christ Show
Filed under: Abare News
I'm in a meeting this afternoon and I get an email from one of the guys in the meeting (how did we ever get anything done without wireless laptops in meetings?) that points me to an article he just read that quoted me.
Sure enough, an interview I did a few weeks ago with Brad Greenberg from the LA Daily News was published this past weekend. Brad had tracked me down from an entry I had written on Church Marketing Sucks back in May of 2005. It's amazing how the blog world has connected everyone.
The article is about a weekly radio show on a big AM talk station here in Los Angeles called the Jesus Christ Show. You can read more in the article I was quoted in and on Church Marketing Sucks.
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December 1, 2006
National New Church Conference
Filed under: Brad Works
Got invited to tag-team the creative communications pre-conference with Mark Batterson at the 2007 National New Church Conference in Orlando next April 23-26. I love hanging out with pastors, especially church plant pastors. It's probably for the same reason I am drawn to small business upstarts and movies like Rudy. I just love the underdog.
And boy to I feel like the underdog with Batterson! It should be a lot of fun in April.
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