While on holidays I read Jim Collins Good to Great
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and it was sensational!
Basically what he does is a rigorous survey of companies that have way excelled in productivity and profit by comparison with other similar companies and asks what makes them great and the others just ‘good’.
Using tough benchmarks, Collins [...]
This is a bit of mantra for me as I talk about church with people.
When it comes to ‘what works?’ I agree that your meat and three veg (sing and listen) Sunday service does ‘work’ for some people. The stats would show maybe 10% of our population.
That is a sizable chunk.
But 90% is a signficantly [...]
The last post has been deleted – second thoughts seemed like better thoughts…
Every now and then I write first think later…
Now that I think…
We have 6 embryos on ice… Sound weird?
We start our next round of IVF soon.
People often ask me “what happens if all 6 turn into little people?”
“Ummm… we have 8 kids?”
When you decide that conception is the start of life then you don’t have an option to dispose of the embryos, so we need [...]
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Its been 13 months now since we left Lesmurdie – 13 months of very little routine and lots of chaos.
As a result my well oiled personal disciplines have shot out the window and I haven’t been able to retrieve them at all. I have stopped running and pushing weights, I have been eating more than [...]
Michelle, closely followed by Justin.
When I came back to my bloglines feed and checked the number of posts to read from each person on there Michelle topped out with 39 in the the last 14 days and Justin had 34. Lotsa writing from these guys!!
Of course where there are winners there are loooosers and my [...]
Holidays are over…
They were great, and I am even ready to come back – but the next few weeks are looking hellish in the diary department. Makes me want to run away at the thought of it!
Some holiday highlights
* Hanging with Danelle, Ellie and Sam – really nice to spend the time and just have [...]
I don’t think I have ever been this ready for a holiday!
Today I taught my classes and then finished the day by playing in the staff student basketball game. Wow! I can still feel it.
We lost by 1 point to the students, but what struck me was how much harder it is when you haven’t [...]
At lunch time today the conversation turned to church, which is quite unusual for us, even though we are teachers at a Christian school.
As staff members each person (I discovered) has to get an annual report from their pastor stating that they are a regular attendee at worship services.
We began to discuss the implications [...]