February 2009

February 18, 2009

Case Study: Shared Values, Teachable Behaviors

Miki Saxon of Leadership Turn writes about infrastructure building blocks . She’s using her own terminology for what we refer to as Shared Values and Teachable Behaviors, and it’s an excellent article on the subject. She separates them into Philosophy, Attitudes and Policies. The Philosophy of a group would be similar to our shared values. A couple of her examples are Fairness and Open Communications. Attitudes & Styles, on the other hand, would be more similar to our Teachable Behaviors. Policies are something we haven’t really touched on in a Swarm. Most swarms likely won’t have them. But when we [...]

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February 4, 2009

The “Big 3″ China Events in 2008

submitted by my good friend, G.R. Sometimes we get caught up in the routine, and indeed faithfulness in the routine makes up most of life. But then there are those few mega-events that have the potential to change the old routine into something permanently different. In our personal lives we have a wedding, or a birth, or a funeral, or a doctor’s report, or a job change, and familiar patterns must forever surrender to new realities. On a larger scale an inauguration, a hurricane, a war, or an economic upheaval does the same thing. We can fight it or celebrate [...]

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February 4, 2009

Can a problem be too big to tackle?

Is any problem too big to tackle? For example, consider: 200 million antipersonnel landmines in the world  Over 1 billion unevangelized people in the world Over 170 million alcoholics in the world Over 60 million abandoned children and infants (1990) Whether these problems are too large depends upon the available resources. They are too big for a single individual. Could 200 million people remove the landmines? Yes. Therefore, I theorize: any problem more than 5 levels of magnitude greater in size than the available resources is too big to tackle by those resources alone. How can such problems be addressed? [...]

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