“How Do You Prepare A Message?” Part Three :: Perry Noble | Leadership, Vision & Creativity

“How Do You Prepare A Message?” Part Three :: Perry Noble | Leadership, Vision & Creativity: "I realize that many pastors are preaching what I call “Saturday Night Specials” because they don’t feel they have the time or they don’t feel they can work ahead.� I would challenge pastors to do everything you can to get your message preparation 2 or 3 weeks ahead of time.� The reason why is simple: it relieves your team and helps them to prepare better."

Mavericks at Work: Where the Most Original Minds in Business Connect

Mavericks at Work: Where the Most Original Minds in Business Connect: "The basic principle: people can do whatever they want, whenever they want, as long as the work gets done. Period. You can come in at 2pm on Tuesday. Leave at 3pm on Friday. Go grocery shopping at 10am on Wednesday. Take a nap or go to the movies anytime. Do your work while following your favorite band around the country. The ROWE “13 Commandments” say it all—here are a few:

–Work isn’t a place you go, it’s something you do.

–Employees have the freedom to work any way they want

–Every meeting is optional

–Nobody talks about how many hours they work

–No judgment about how you spend your time"

Gap To Employees: Work Wherever, Whenever You Want - BusinessWeek

Gap To Employees: Work Wherever, Whenever You Want - BusinessWeek: "The Gap Outlet is migrating its headquarters staff to a ROWE environment. The company is already seeing huge positive results."

Would a results-only work environment make you more productive? - Our Latest Discovery

Would a results-only work environment make you more productive? - Our Latest Discovery: "Gillin went on to say that they had no issues with people working from home. Then he chuckled — and, Reader, it was an evil chuckle — and explained that giving people control of their own time was absolutely the way to get the most work out of them."

Starting Your Social Media Case

Starting Your Social Media Case: "If you have to convince the boss or the establishment that your organization would benefit from social media, you might want a plan. Here’s a very simple one you can copy:"

Confessions of an Internet Pastor: Not For Church People - ChurchCrunch

Confessions of an Internet Pastor: Not For Church People - ChurchCrunch: "Non-linear snack sized segments.
Each segment of the experience will have it’s own resolve while pointing to an overall theme at the same time. Jesus used to spout off a sequence of short parables that all had a similar ‘take away’ but would hit people in different ways. We’re gonna try this formula and see if it works."

Dell to acquire Perot Systems in $3.9 billion deal - MarketWatch

Dell to acquire Perot Systems in $3.9 billion deal - MarketWatch

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mental_floss Blog � The Quick 10: 10 Secret Menu Items

mental_floss Blog � The Quick 10: 10 Secret Menu Items: "5. If you’re at Wendy’s and you’re really hungry – like, three-patties-just-won’t-cut-it hungry, go ahead and order the Grand Slam, which is four patties stacked on a bun. It’s also known as the Meat Cube. Gross."

Between Two Worlds: The Real Test of Ministry Progress

Between Two Worlds: The Real Test of Ministry Progress: "The measure of how ministry is progressing in your church or fellowship, and the way to evaluate whether you are making progress, is not attendance on Sunday, signed up members, people in small groups, or the size of our budget (as important and valuable as all these things are!). The real test is how successfully you are making disciples who make other disciples. Are we seeing people converted from being dead in their transgressions to being alive in Christ? And once converted, are we seeing them followed-up and established as mature disciples of Jesus? And as they become established, are we training them in knowledge, godliness and skills so that they will in turn make disciples of others?
This is the Great Commission—the making of disciples who obey all that Christ has taught, including the command to make disciples. And this is the touchstone of our faithfulness to Christ's mission in the world, and the sign of a healthy church: whether or not it is making genuine disciple-making disciples of Jesus Christ."

NPCC * PRACTICALLY SPEAKING

NPCC * PRACTICALLY SPEAKING: "Seven Practices of Effective Ministry Series" with Andy Stanley

Practice #1 - Clarify The Win - Even the best team can't score if it can't find home plate. In this conversation, we'll discuss the importance of clearly defining wins at every level of your organization.

Practice #2 - Think Steps, Not Programs - Before you start anything, make sure it takes you where you want to go. In this conversation, we'll discuss the importance of a clear ministry strategy.

Practice #3 - Narrow The Focus - The longer a ministry operates, the more complex it becomes. In order to maintain a winning organization, we must continually face the challenge of narrowing its focus.

Practice #4 - Teach Less For More - People are bombarded by thousands of messages every week. If the local church is going to be effective, it must cut through the noise. It must learn to say only what needs to be said to the people who need to hear it.

Practice #5 - Listen To Outsiders - Why don’t the unchurched people in your area go to church? Could it be because you’re focusing on who you’re trying to keep instead of who you’re trying to reach?

Practice #6 - Replace Yourself - We are all replaced eventually. The wisest leaders will extend their influence by finding and mentoring their replacements.

Practice #7 - Work On It - All of us work in ministry every day, but is that enough? Working on your ministry requires time to evaluate your work and to celebrate your wins.

Business Social Networking: Public and Private – There is a Place for Both

Business Social Networking: Public and Private – There is a Place for Both: "As much as these public social networks try to cater to business users, where social networking should have an even greater impact is within the walls of organizations, inside the firewall, creating true collaborative work environments where organizations can harvest the collective wisdom of employees, suppliers, existing clients and prospective customers."

Steve Sofian | XSLT Tip: Get Current Page URL

Steve Sofian XSLT Tip: Get Current Page URL: "Quite often we will be writing custom XSL to customize the display of a Content Query Web Part (CQWP) and at times we would want to get the current page URL where the CQWP web part lives."

5 Reasons To Use SharePoint Instead Of Emailing Excel Files | NetworkWorld.com Community

5 Reasons To Use SharePoint Instead Of Emailing Excel Files NetworkWorld.com Community: "In the SharePoint consulting I do, I try to look beyond just basic uses of SharePoint, where SharePoint acts as a basic replacement for shared folders on file servers."

Ten top issues in adopting enterprise social computing | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com

Ten top issues in adopting enterprise social computing Enterprise Web 2.0 ZDNet.com: "To be specific, companies that are both deeply and widely engaged in social media surpass their peers in terms of both revenue and profit performance by a significant difference."

EndUserSharePoint.com: Top 10 Subscribed Posts | End User SharePoint

EndUserSharePoint.com: Top 10 Subscribed Posts End User SharePoint: "Here are the Top 10 Subscribed Posts, with links to the original article.
Email and SharePoint Designer Workflow - Part 1
Tips and Tricks: Use a lookup table instead of a choice dropdown list
Taming the Elusive “Calculated Column” - Customizing a Task List
Can I Map a Document Library as a Mapped Drive?
Quote of the Day web part now in the wild!
Available for Download: SharePoint Flash Media Library Template
JQuery for Everyone: Fixing the Gantt View
Feedback on “Case Studies in SharePoint Dashboards” eBook
Embed a Video into a SharePoint Page
Feedback on “Tricks and Traps with Wikis and Blogs” eBook"

Site Managers and End User Expectations, Roles and Responsibilities | End User SharePoint

Site Managers and End User Expectations, Roles and Responsibilities End User SharePoint: "A challenge with SharePoint for site managers, site administrators, or site owners is understanding their own role, it’s responsibilities, and what expectations come with being a ‘site owner, manager, or administrator’."

Bad Practice #2: No Governance Plan | End User SharePoint

Bad Practice #2: No Governance Plan End User SharePoint: "This is the bare bones necessities you need to cover for a successful SharePoint implementation. It isn’t pretty or well explained, but will get you started in the right direction."