Some more wisdom from Guy Kawasaki. This time on The Art of Recruiting.
The “Shopping Center Test” has got me thinking . . .
There is only one skill more important for a pioneering leader to master than how to recruit the right people.
Dynamic movements learn how to grow the right people. Lots of them.
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One Comment
Amen. So often it seems that people are building things with blocks that have been developed elsewhere. Obviously that needs to happen and the Lord no doubt re-arranges the pieces on the Board from time to time. But, if a movement is to happen, there must be a a centripetal (ie. moving out – I think) thing happening – that a church or group is putting out more spiritual fruit than the resources it is consuming. Sort of makes me think that churches that are effective at growing people are like a spiritual vortex where power from on high flows into people and they are then spun off into other places. And the end of a movement phase is signalled by the shutting down of the vortex – the group no longer produces more fruit than the resources it consumes. We’re back then to the zero-sum game – just shifting pieces around.