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Crisis demands shared leadership
The shape of our two primary political party’s response to COVID demonstrates the great need we have for multiple dominant parties. In the early stages of the pandemic, it was the Democratic party’s response that proved most human. Most Democrats were swift to listen to scientific guidance and protect the vulnerable, to release funds and organize a coherent response. The Republican party, in contrast, quibbled with the scientific community, claimed moral superiority in upholding freedom at the expense of the vulnerable, and balked at even modest capital expenditure.…
A strong team will mitigate nearly every disaster that can befall a planter
A strong team will help mitigate nearly every disaster that can befall a planter, yet few planters are intentional about it on their first try.
Train your team for your absence by taking them everywhere
The key to training your team for your absence is to take them with you wherever you go, having them shadow you like a disciple would a rabbi.
Wise planters learn everything they can about leadership
Once a planter recruits a team, it takes constant communication to maintain the bond of working together. In the same way that a modern soldier must clean his gun, so the planter must regularly look after the team. Many planters have not been taught basic leadership principles and know little about managing teams. Therefore, wise planters learn everything they can about interpersonal communication, team leadership, conflict resolution, and Christlike leadership.
Evangelism is a team sport
Evangelism isn’t done by yourself. Jesus sent folks out by pairs. It’s not enough to say we’re doing it together just because the entire congregation has a commitment to evangelism; we actually need to do evangelism together. a strong team will mitigate nearly every disaster that can befall a planter train your team for your absence by taking them everywhere discipleship done biblically is always in community
Lean means efficient not alone
Lean startup entrepreneurs must weigh the cost of doing everything themselves. Today, if you were required to submit U.S. tax documentation for five employees you’ve hired over the year, would you know how? Would you feel confident an external audit would find no mistakes? Chances are, probably not. The effort it would take an entrepreneur to adequately understand and comply by the U.S. tax codes, the much less the regulations for employee wages, could be compared to a four-year accounting degree.…
Define your team culture
Define your team culture with tools like the Culture Map. Empirical research demonstrates the positive effect cultural diversity has on a business' bottom line. But when you, an American business person, schedules three meetings with your Ethiopian team mate and he shows up twenty minutes late to every meeting, you don’t think, “Look at all the diversity we have. This is great!” No, you think, “What’s his problem? This is crazy; how are we supposed to get any work done waiting a third of our time for others to catch up?…
Teams excel the best entrepreneur
Teamwork is more efficient than gaining all the skills an entrepreneur needs. Today is my company’s yearly user conference, where over 1,800 people from every law background come to hear the future direction of our software, interact with your team, and party till 3:00 a.m. I attended an event where the outside developers that build software on top of ours were given a roadmap of how kCura would work with them to build even better software moving forward.…