Category: leadership
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Critical Thinking Skill #1: Test “Big Words”
A while ago, I started a train of thought about Critical Thinking. Since the last one, I have been occupied with my current novel, Breaking Free, and haven’t been back to it since. There is no idea that is so complicated that it cannot be explained simply, with simple words arranged in easy sentences. When…
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Leadership Pep Talk (for Kids)
The Hot Coal I know you’re just a kid. You don’t know much about how the world works. You don’t have many skills yet and you’re not very strong. But I know you have a “vision”, a picture in your head, of how the world could be better. That “vision” is blurry, and it’s hard…
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“But Emergencies are Thrilling!!”
A shout out to my reader in Ireland! I see your flag every post in my stats. (Howw arrr ye en te emreld isle? Hallooh from Australia!) When your team is in Emergency Mode, life is thrilling. You feel really “alive”. You have to react quickly, like a jet pilot in a dog fight. Every…
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Power Clashes, Jesus and Humility
Power Frames, Power Clashes In his book, Pitch Anything, Oren Klaff describes his “frames”. (These are not to be confused with the memory frames I have written about in other posts.) He says that a frame is “the instrument used to package authority, strength, status. Everyone uses frames, whether they realise it or not. They…
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How Jesus Won Every.Single. Frame Clash
I’ve been thinking deeply on Oren Klaff’s frame theory, and have already come to the conclusion that a) Jesus won all of his frame-clash and b) Jesus expected his followers to mature to the place they could also win every frame clash. What was Jesus’ secret? If we check back on the first page of…
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