http://www.steveaddison.net/2005/08/19/the-knowing-doing-gap.html Steve Addison's blog about movements for the renewal and expansion of the church. Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:03:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://www.steveaddison.net/2005/08/19/the-knowing-doing-gap.html#comment-141 Bruce Thu, 25 Aug 2005 06:55:34 +0000 http://www.steveaddison.net/?p=96#comment-141 Very helpful identifier Steve. Thanks. Very helpful identifier Steve. Thanks.

]]> http://www.steveaddison.net/2005/08/19/the-knowing-doing-gap.html#comment-133 Brigid Walsh Fri, 19 Aug 2005 18:38:18 +0000 http://www.steveaddison.net/?p=96#comment-133 Steve, this checklist is going to get circulated far and wide by me. Very familiar with this. Don't want to be sexist but....for the most part (but not limited to) I have and currently am experiencing this with the male of the species. This experience covers all sorts of committees: in-house corporate committees, community committees, political committees, church committees. With one church committee I'm on at the moment if the men stayed away and left the women alone meetngs would be half their length (well, maybe not, we'd get the business done and adjourn for a pleasant coffee and chat) and much more would get done. I recall an article a few years ago in the Sydney Morning Herald by a journalist doing profiles on country towns. The journalist found that it wasn't too difficult to go into town and find a town's leaders - who were, for the most part, male. But then asking around among the townsfolk would discover an interesting fact. Ask who those were in the community who got things done. Replies showed that the doers were not "the leaders". The ones who got things done in the community were not those designated as leaders with official titles but women. God save us from those who are only interested in control and status. God provide us with those who provide the glue - the social cohesion which makes interpersonal relationships a joy and the team work which engenders beneficial productivity for all. Steve, this checklist is going to get circulated far and wide by me. Very familiar with this. Don’t want to be sexist but….for the most part (but not limited to) I have and currently am experiencing this with the male of the species. This experience covers all sorts of committees: in-house corporate committees, community committees, political committees, church committees. With one church committee I’m on at the moment if the men stayed away and left the women alone meetngs would be half their length (well, maybe not, we’d get the business done and adjourn for a pleasant coffee and chat) and much more would get done. I recall an article a few years ago in the Sydney Morning Herald by a journalist doing profiles on country towns. The journalist found that it wasn’t too difficult to go into town and find a town’s leaders – who were, for the most part, male. But then asking around among the townsfolk would discover an interesting fact. Ask who those were in the community who got things done. Replies showed that the doers were not “the leaders”. The ones who got things done in the community were not those designated as leaders with official titles but women. God save us from those who are only interested in control and status. God provide us with those who provide the glue – the social cohesion which makes interpersonal relationships a joy and the team work which engenders beneficial productivity for all.

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