http://charleswear.com the publisher of Next-Wave Mon, 12 May 2008 14:59:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'd like to write something profound, but what can I say? It's Monday morning. I checked in with some of my favorite bloggers for some inspiration: Andrew Jones, Jordon Cooper, Bob Hyatt and Chris Elrod. Lot's of profound stuff there, that's for sure. I took a moment to drop by ... http://charleswear.com/2008/05/12/id-like-to-be-profound/ I always learn something from Jordon Cooper's Contextless Links. Today's lesson was a link to Brad Bird's list of ways to foster innovation. Boy, there is some good stuff there. Because I have a five-yr. old I know a lot about Pixar products! I have watched the Incredibles numerous times ... http://charleswear.com/2008/05/04/i-want-to-work-for-pixar/ I finished reading William Young's, The Shack, yesterday. All I can say is, "Wow." This is one of those books that will make you laugh and cry and think really hard. We published a review and an interview on Next-Wave in October 2007, but I didn't get around to getting ... http://charleswear.com/2008/04/25/the-shack/ Tivo, DVR, hulu.com, these are the agents of quantum cultural change. Since the 1950s, "prime-time" has meant the hours between 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. (or 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. depending on your US Time Zone) when television networks offer their best programming and sell time to their best ... http://charleswear.com/2008/04/16/time-shifting/ A few months ago I wrote a short post about a young leader I had run into. He was the pastor of a church that I had attended for a few weeks when it was first starting, author of a discipleship book and heading toward the fifth anniversary of the ... http://charleswear.com/2008/04/04/i-hate-it-when-this-happens/ My good friend Scott Bane wrestles with the question, "Where are all the apostles?" He writes: I find myself missing them more and more lately.  Which is interesting because I'm not even sure what I'm missing.  What is it I want an apostle to do for me?  It seems like there must ... http://charleswear.com/2008/04/03/the-apostolic-life-2/ Today, by Rob Bell... http://charleswear.com/2008/03/30/i-found-my-sermon-for-this-week-on-youtube/ I serendipitously arrived at an essay by Jay Gary, a PhD candidate in the Regent University program in Organizational Leadership. One of the paragraphs jumped out at me: Rost claims management is built around authority relationships, while leadership is built around influence relationships. Management concerns managers and subordinates, while leadership deals ... http://charleswear.com/2008/03/26/leadership-v-management/ When I was learning how to drive a car in the dark ages of 1963 I was taught to take my foot off the accelerator when I applied the brakes. Frequently this was accompanied by pressing down on the clutch while the vehicle's transmission was shifted. If I wanted to ... http://charleswear.com/2008/03/25/the-brake-and-the-accelerator/ I found my easter sermon here today, thanks to Sheryl Bane at Peanut Butter and Jelly Boats. http://charleswear.com/2008/03/23/i-found-my-easter-sermon-here-today/