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The Essential Lesson of Tribal Communication

will mancini — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:30:00 -0600

Seth Godin writes with a dash of bravado and his overstatements are both playful and insightful. But on the topic of communication, he delivers what he calls "the essential lesson" and it's not exaggerated. "The essential lesson is that every...

Limit Your Limitations - 3 Essentials for Creating a Movement

will mancini — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:54:43 -0600

In this fourth post on Take Seth Godin to Church I want to focus on Tribal Movement. Consider using the questions in these posts for staff or volunteer meetings in the month of December. Use the Advent season to see...

Pastors are Tribal Leaders - 4 Things We Must Do

will mancini — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:18:11 -0600

This is the third post in the Take Seth Godin to Church series. Today I want to apply Godin's perspective about leading a tribe, to Jesus. As we do, I invite you to allow the life of Jesus shape your...

How Passionate is Your Tribe? - 5 Questions

will mancini — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:26:00 -0600

Here are my three favorite Seth Godin quotes pertaining to tribal passion: "Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy. Can you imagine Steve Jobs showing up for...

Take Seth Godin to Church

will mancini — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:03:40 -0600

You've probably been exposed to Seth Godin's book, Tribes. But have you integrated his ideas into your thinking and leadership at church? Integrating new learning for me always happens in stages. For example: Exposure to and awareness of new ideas...

Igniting Campfires that Multiply Leaders

will mancini — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:35:38 -0600

As promised last month,the November issue of Auxano Insights focuses on Developing Leaders - one of the five categories of the Integration Model as unpacked in Church Unique. What good is clear vision without a cascading movement of leaders who...

The Payoff of Carving Out Time for Vision

will mancini — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:41:34 -0600

I ran into this simple but powerful post of 27-year old Sean Chandler. He is a student pastor in Round Rock, Texas that has been thinking about vision lately. Imagine waking up one day to do leadership training and realizing...

Where Vision Begins by Mother Teresa

will mancini — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:09:50 -0600

One of Auxano's navigators, Rich Kannwischer, just sent me this quote from Mother Teresa. We always talk about how unlocking the future is about going deeper with who we already are and what we already have. To understand how much...

Leading with a Mission Statement that Isn't Dumb

will mancini — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:37:48 -0600

How many dumb mission statements do you hear like: Our challenge is to assertively network economically sound methods of empowerment so that we may continually negotiate performance-based infrastructures. If you have been around church at all, you know that we...

Church Jobs of the Future

will mancini — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:41:33 -0600

My daughter and I practiced her spelling bee words as I drove her to school this morning. Abby is a 10-year old. On the drive home, I pondered what Abby might do when she grows up. Every now and again...