I am Jamaica's husband, Foursquare's comm director, Personality's founder, and a catalyst for CFCC.
I'm also blogging at:
Personality™
Church Marketing Sucks
Under the Influence
I'm a consummate learner, observer and doer. This is a feeble attempt to catalog some of my influences along the way, in no order of significance.
Blogs & Brains
Tim Abare (my dad)
Books
What Really Works by William Joyce and Nitin Nohria
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton
The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman
Purple Cow by Seth Godin
The Importance of Being Foolish by Brennan Manning
The Life You've Always Wanted by John Ortberg
Good to Great by Jim Collins
This Beautiful Mess by Rick McKinley
Vital Friends by Tom Rath
Ruthless Trust by Brennan Manning
Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller
Eat This Book by Eugene Peterson
Getting Real by 37signals
Mind Your X's and Y's by Lisa Johnson
Ogilvy on Advertising by David Ogilvy
The Message Bible by Eugene Peterson (with lots of help from God)
Sex God by Rob Bell