4Ü #280
The story before the story
31 May 2007
- WASSUP - Thinking of you
- INSIGHT OUT - The Medici Effect
- OUTSIGHT IN - The story before the story
- SEE YA SUNDAY - Soul Quest: Epic
- LAST WORD - To find the plot you must first listen to the story
WASSUP - Thinking of you
I was thinking of you this morning as you drove to work
Racing in your mind yet crawling in traffic
The lights out of phase
The photocopier cold, damp and temperamental
A sign of things to come?
Your email inbox calling for attention
And then comes 4U
Time to take a "thought walk"
A coffee in one hand and a print out in the other
Take a thinking break
Let your soul connect with your body
Andrew
INSIGHT OUT - The Medici Effect
Well worth a read with plenty of food for thought.
The Medici Effect: Breakthrough Insights at the Intersection of Ideas, Concepts & Cultures by Frans Johansson is a remarkable book that should be on every entrepreneur's bookshelf. It contains numerous practical insights and strategies that you can benefit from, no matter what profession or industry you're working in.
The name of the book refers to the explosion of knowledge, culture and ideas that flourished during the Renaissance, fuelled by the wealthy Medici family in Italy. It's an appropriate metaphor for the explosion of disruptive business opportunities that we're faced with today.
The Intersection: The first part of this book explains what the Intersection is -- a place where ideas from different fields and cultures meet, leading to an explosion of ideas and possibilities. It also explains the forces that are creating it and why it's growing in importance. Johansson also draws some important distinctions between incremental and disruptive, intersectional ones: "The key difference between a field and an intersection of fields lies in how concepts within them are combined," he explains. "If you operate within a field, you primarily are able to combine concepts within that particular field, generating ideas that evolve along a particular direction -- what I call directional ideas. When you step into the Intersection, you can combine concepts between multiple fields, generating ideas that leap in new directions -- what I call intersectional ideas."
By Chuck Frey
For more ... http://www.innovationtools.com/Articles/ArticleHeadlines.asp
http://www.themedicieffect.com
OUTSIGHT IN - The story before the story
I wonder what sort of story we have fallen into
J.R.R. Tolkien
Frodo could not be a hero unless he was born into a story with many chapters already played out before his own. His moment derives its weight and urgency from the moments that have come before.
John Eldredge
Your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
Psalm 139:16
Hold your finger in the page of today so as not to lose your place
Know that today is held by what has gone before and is yet to come
Dare to imagine a story written before your birth
A book of days ordained
Without which life is a forever vanishing moment
A suspended life sentence in nothingness
But found within a story much larger than mine
I am
SEE YA SUNDAY - Soul Quest: Epic
8.30 & 10.30
Have you ever felt that life is like a movie that you have walked into 40 minutes late, caught up in a scene but have no idea what it's all about? This Sunday you will find your place in the greatest story every told. This is your Epic.
Soul Quest
This series explores how you can know God without selling your soul. Many people have a concept that becoming a Christian is all about becoming a stranger to themselves, this couldn't be further from the truth. It's about becoming more authentic to who you really are! God has designed you to know him. The clues to knowing God are already in you.
If you would like tape or CD copies of the messages at St Columba to pass on to others please make your request by reply to the email. There is a nominal charge.
Sunday evening service "CANVAS" this week @ 7pm with Matt Chapman - Faith at Work
Hot soup will be served at 7pm in the Cafe - $2 donation.
Can't wait ... see ya Sunday
Thanks for this time to chat.
Andrew
St Columba
Where Life and Faith Meet
andrew.norton@stcolumba.org.nz
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LAST WORD - To find the plot you must first listen to the story
Our stories tell us who we are, why we are here, and what we are to do. They give us our best answers to all of life's big questions, and to most of the small ones as well.
Daniel Taylor