Unleash 09

NewSpring Church in South Carolina held a one day conference for church leaders yesterday called Unleash. As part of a growing movement in churches to make resources more readily available, they also streamed it Live on their website.

But the best part for me was reading the synopsis compiled through a group of twitterers by Jason Curlee. The links below are the main notes of Jason (@jasoncurlee) and several of his twitter friends (@shaunking, @vinceparker, @moviepastor, @cadillaczak, & @susannereeder) from Perry Noble’s two main sessions:

» Morning Session

» Afternoon Session

Please take some time and read through them all.

**UPDATE**
Both sessions are now available onilne in video format, again for FREE.

Filed under: Church, Leadership

Innovation Adoption Curve

The innovation adoption curve of Rogers is a model that classifies adopters of innovations into various categories. It is based on the idea that certain individuals are inevitably more open for adaption than others. It is also called: Multi-Step Flow Theory or Diffusion of Innovations Theory. (more…)

Innovators. Brave people, pulling the change. Innovators are very important communication mechanisms.

Early Adopters. Respectable people, opinion leaders, try out new ideas, but in a careful way.

Early Majority. Thoughful people, careful but accept change more quickly than average people do.

Late Majority. Skeptic people, will use new ideas or products only when the majority is using it.

Laggards. Traditional people, love to stick to the “old ways”, are critical about new ideas and will only accept it if the new idea has become mainstream or even tradition.

(ht: Eric Bryant)

Filed under: Change, Communication, Innovation, Leadership, Vision

Happy MLK Day

Seriously though, MLK was one of the first biographies I read when I first started reading back in elementary school. Today he remains one of my favorite people to ever walk the earth. Truly a leader and visionary.

“I submit to you that if a man hasn’t discovered something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.” —Martin Luther King Jr., June 23, 1963

Filed under: Holidays, Jr., Leadership, Martin Luther King, MLK, Quotes, The Office, Visionaries