Some more wisdom from Guy Kawasaki. This time on The Art of Recruiting.
The “Shopping Center Test” has got me thinking . . .
There is only one skill more important for a pioneering leader to master than how to recruit the right people.
Dynamic movements learn how to grow the right people. Lots of them.
Amen. So often it seems that people are building things with blocks that have been developed elsewhere. Obviously that needs to happen and the Lord no doubt re-arranges the pieces on the Board from time to time. But, if a movement is to happen, there must be a a centripetal (ie. moving out – I think) thing happening – that a church or group is putting out more spiritual fruit than the resources it is consuming. Sort of makes me think that churches that are effective at growing people are like a spiritual vortex where power from on high flows into people and they are then spun off into other places. And the end of a movement phase is signalled by the shutting down of the vortex – the group no longer produces more fruit than the resources it consumes. We’re back then to the zero-sum game – just shifting pieces around.
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