March 2010

March 24, 2010

Aside: Lack of Accountability

Seen: According to a recent survey of C-level executives conducted by BusinessWeek Research Services, the biggest obstacles to successful execution of performance management are “lack of accountability” and “a culture that does not support measurement.” (Instilling Company-Wide Accountability). It’s not about “scorecarding” but about “accountability.”

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March 24, 2010

China: eyes religious group finances

Chinese Gov’t to Tighten Watch Over Religious Group Finances (International Christian Concern): 130,000 religious institutions?

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March 24, 2010

North Korea: more bad news

North Koreans fear another famine amid economic crisis (LA Times). Analysts in the region feel the nation is on a “countdown to collapse,” lurching from crisis to crisis, and supposedly Kim Jong-il has a life expectancy of less than three years.

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March 24, 2010

Slums in crisis

A new paper by the Humanitarian Futures Programme, Urban Catastrophes, explores how a lack of clean water and sanitation in burgeoning slums could trigger a complex series of humanitarian crises.

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March 24, 2010

India: teaching on giving needed?

India’s wealthy class uncharitable, study shows. The number of wealthy Indians is rising, but the level of philanthropy is not. Indian missions and churches will suffer until it does.

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March 24, 2010

Photography cheat sheets

Bunches of sheets on composition, lighting placement, much more will help you bring the best photos back from your trips abroad. In Lifehacker.com.

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March 24, 2010

Why design your own programs when so much is out there for free?

It is true that a big part of swarming is using free and openly-available tools. And there are many leadership development curriculum available for free, particularly to those in non-Western countries. What’s more, there are often ministries with the funding to come and teach you how to implement the program, or even implement it for [...]

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March 23, 2010

Why not just teach them English?

Eddie Arthur (Wycliffe UK) offers a one minute forty second to a question often asked about translation work: “Why not just teach them English?” Interesting question, good answer.

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March 23, 2010

The future of Islam

How Muslims are forging a “21st century” Islam. In Christian Science Monitor.

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March 23, 2010

Cities merging into megaregions

The world’s cities are merging into vast “megaregions” which may stretch hundreds of kilometers and be home to more than 100 million people, significantly affecting population and wealth in the next 50 years. In Guardian, from UN Reports.

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March 23, 2010

Twitter infographic

Mashable has put together a stunning Infographic of the Day: The Path to 10 Billion Tweets. See the history of Twitter & Facebook. Wish we could do church & mission statistics like this. (Actually, Bryant Meyers’ books have done an excellent job, and the Atlas of Global Christianity is very nice as well.)

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March 23, 2010

Prayerwalking your block

Pray4yourblock.org has prayer resources for a simple strategy of praying for the people on your block. While the website might not be useful everywhere in the world, the strategy is. If they get enough people participating, this could be an interesting swarm.

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March 23, 2010

Opportunities, Challenges for Global Christianity

Phil Miglioratti has posted a recent article from the Australian Prayer Network Newsletter which concisely outlines some trends affecting Christianity.

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March 23, 2010

Vision leads to health

There is no healthy organization without a sense of common destiny linking it to a larger scheme. - Ichak Adizes, in Quote of the Day

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March 23, 2010

Building strategic thinking skills

Strategic Thinking vs. Strategic Planning is a useful little post that suggests 7 dimensions to strategic thinking and steps to building strategic thinking skills.

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March 23, 2010

Leader development and the unreached

I am writing this at about 6am. I’ve been up since about 3am. I’m not normally an early riser, but I am experiencing what all international travelers face: jetlag. I just spent two weeks on the other side of the world, and my body right now thinks it’s time for dinner, not breakfast. While I [...]

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March 23, 2010

Putting foul water to use

U.N. report: Let’s turn foul water from mass killer into global treasure – CNN.com suggests the chemicals in tainted water could be used, for example, for fertilizer in agriculture. Update: dirty water kills more than all violence.

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March 23, 2010

Drought in China

Drought is crippling southwest China, leaving millions without drinking water and causing food prices to increase. Scientific American reports it is the worst in living memory.

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March 23, 2010

We fear the wrong things

The Case for Toyota demonstrates the real statistics: you are 1,300 times more likely to die from taking aspirin than from a sudden-acceleration issue with a Toyota car. But we fear things that make headlines. What do you fear? Is it ever likely to really happen?

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March 23, 2010

Evaluating USA conservative Christians by the Bible

The Huffington Post has posted a 2-part critique of conservative Christians in America by Richard Hughes of Messiah College. This is a measured, thoughtful article that really digs into why many Americans think the way they do, and why many conservative Christians have gone very far from Biblical perspectives. Great point of comparing what conservative [...]

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