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Webinar: Creating a Culture of Innovation

Posted on November 10, 2020 by
November 10, 2020

Description: A culture of innovation requires far more than decentralized organizations, free-spirited leaders, stickies, whiteboards and words like Hack-a-thon or ideation.

Mission Fields to Mission Forces

Posted on October 19, 2020 by
October 19, 2020

Matthew Ellison and Ted Esler chat with Gideon and Sarah, African American missionaries to North Africa, about how many missions fields in Africa are becoming missions forces.

The Three-Box Solution: A Strategy for Leading Innovation

Posted on September 22, 2020 by
September 10, 2020

This is a simple strategy for creating innovation in an organization. The strategy is to focus on extending your current business model (Box 1), creating something entirely new (Box 3), and stopping activity no longer fruitful (Box 2). Each one has a significant impact on innovation.

To Send or Not to Send?

Posted on September 21, 2020 by
September 21, 2020

We talk with President of Frontiers USA, Bob Blincoe. Bob will shed light on whether or not churches should still be sending missionaries to unreached.

Innovation in the Mission Field

Posted on August 21, 2020 by
August 24, 2020

We talk with missions innovator Andrew Scott, of Scatter Global, who sounds a call for a new era of missions.

Ten Types of Innovation: The Discipline of Building Breakthroughs

Posted on August 18, 2020 by
August 13, 2020

This book is an analysis of business innovations. It is arranged into ten distinct types of innovations, with examples for all of them. Included is a listing of 100 different tactics used to implement the innovation. It explains which different types of innovation might be combined to create change in an industry segment. The final section of the book gives “games” or scenarios for leaders to engage in, imagining and analyzing potential targets for innovation.

Hop, Skip, Go: How the Mobility Revolution Is Transforming Our Lives

Posted on January 7, 2020 by
December 16, 2019

This book helps leaders understand how disruptive change occurs and does so in the context of mobility. It makes the claim that the next big social and business revolution will be in moving people from one place to another.

Innovations in Mobilization Collaboration

Posted on June 29, 2018 by
June 29, 2018

Uber, iPhones, Airbnb, Netflix, and Amazon. The list goes on. Disruptive innovations are taking over traditional North American industries. The missions realm also needs consistent creative effective new ways for how we activate, recruit, and onboard new workers. The environment is ripe for unprecedented breakthroughs in mobilization collaborations in the North American missions’ enterprise.

Missio Nexus Podcast Episode 6: Life Church & YouVersion

Posted on May 15, 2017 by
May 25, 2017

Tune in as Ted interviews Life Church on leading innovation and using technology to engage globally and reach the world for Christ.

Smarter Faster Better

Posted on April 13, 2016 by
June 16, 2017

Duhigg is the author of the best selling book, The Power of Habit, and writes Smarter, Faster, Better in the same story and research format. This book is divided into eight discreet chapters. While there is some overlap, one could read each chapter as a standalone treatment of the topic it addresses.

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