Jane Goodall (Wikipedia, TED) at TED says that humans and primates aren’t so different… and that one of our most distinguishing differences is that we communicate with spoken language:
Traveling from Ecuador to Africa, Jane Goodall takes the audience on an ecological journey, discussing highlights and low points of her experiences in the jungle. She shows [...]

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Malcolm Gladwell, one of my favorite over-thinkers, speaks on the origins of chunky spaghetti sauce and the importance of diversity, context, and market share. If you think hard, you can see how this plays out in the local and universal church. He makes a good point about the shift from a desire for [...]

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So what happens when we start looking at our networks for Malcolm Gladwell’s three personalities?
In The Tipping Point, Gladwell offers three uniquely important types of people in the spread of ideas.  They comprise the Law of the Few. “The success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with [...]

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In 2005 I read an article by David Britt from Harvie Conn’s Planting and Growing Urban Churches.  Britt discussed what he refers to as the congruence theory.  Within any setting you’ll find different individuals.  From a distance these individuals often create a singular demographic, psychographic, or ethnographic.  When you look at the individuals up close, [...]

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