Business Essentials 6: Passion
I love watching Shark Tank on TV. If you haven't seen it, it's basically a show where a panel of rich business people hear the basic business plan of small (with potential big) business owners.
Each person believes in their product. They all think their products will sell to a mass audience. But the judges can't choose everyone to invest in, so they get drilled with questions. And we quickly see that the businesses owners have various reasons and research to defend why they think their product will sell.
Passion is NO REPLACEMENT for Research.
However, research without passion is just plain boring. We've all endured seminars or classrooms where a teacher shares research data. All with little emotion. I'm starting to drift...
Catalyst: 6 Things That I’m going to Change (Pt 1)
Once again, I had the privilege to attend Catalyst Atlanta. 13,000 Ministry Leaders meeting together in a sold-out arena. It was awesome.
The end.
Wouldn't it be a shame if we went to an event, read a great book, or was challenged by a friend and we simply summed it up as "amazing". And that's all we did! The purpose of interactions like these is to motivate change.
I'm not sure what I expected, but I was challenged at the core of who I am. What did I learn? Lots. In fact too much for me to share on a simple blog.
But I can describe the 6 standout things I'm going to change and embrace. Here they are:
Embrace Tension. The theme this year...