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This month it is 25 years since I had my first real article published. Not surprisingly, it was an introduction of Natural Church Development (NCD) which was still a fairly new concept at the time. Since then a lot has changed, not just me, but certainly also NCD - one might say there has been a lot...
There is a lot of talk of strategy these days and we will undoubtedly hear more about this in the time to come. Maybe it therefore is good to remind ourselves, that strategies are not the main thing. They are meant to help us to do and to achieve the main thing – that is what makes strategies import...
Do you control people or hold them accountable?
A while ago, I was writing some notes on how to move away from top-down hierarchy without ending up in anarchy. When later reviewing the notes, I found the sentence “Low control - High Accountability”. Honestly, that sounds quite good, at least in my e...
Doing The Salvation Army the Barnes & Nobles Way
In 2018 a columnist in the New Your Times expressed concerns over the development in Barnes & Nobles, the largest chain of bookstores in the US. He found it ‘depressing to imagine that more than 600 Barnes & Noble stores might si...