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Now and then it hits you that you’re doing the job of everyone that reports to you…you’ve clogged your calendar with so much handholding, dispute settling, and babysitting, there’s no way you can cultivate new opportunities. — Mark Stevens, Your Management Sucks
Back in October I wrote a post about building a team that’s better than you and said, “For [my team at NewSpring Church] to accomplish great things, I have to make an intentional, concerted effort to not be the smartest guy in the room.”
I’m happy to share with you a major step in that direction. Detail-oriented, good-taste-having, wicked smart Web Developer Adam Spooner will be leaving the grand isle of Manhattan to join our team at NewSpring this summer. You can get to know Adam via his blog Lead Neophyte or by following him on Twitter. I trust you will benefit from doing so.
NewSpring launched a rebrand and a new site 10 months ago to coincide with the opening of our second campus. Since then, we’ve opened two more campuses (one completely web-based) and seen our overall web traffic double, downloadable media bandwidth triple, and video streaming bandwidth almost quadruple. And let me assure you, internet, we have been over my head and talent capacity in regards to web development and all that it entails for every bit of that time.
But that season is coming to a swift end. We’re about to do some damage.
Seattle Public Library! I’ve started editing and uploading some of the photos from our Seattle vacation to Flickr. Many more to follow. 1. My iPhone is not in any way connected with AT&T
2. My iPhone projects movies on the wall and connects to speakers via Airport
3. My iPhone remotely unlocks my house
4. My iPhone is a flying car
5. My iPhone pays off my student loans
…that most limited of all specialists, the “well-rounded” man. — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
I don’t want to sacrifice principle for the sake of expediency. — Thomas Hallstrom
The Blankenships will be vacationing in Seattle for the next few days.
What should we do?
What are you good at?
I don’t make steel. I make men. They make make steel. — Andrew Carnegie
The new trailer introduces us to “accelerator suits.” Apparently, they exist to accelerate the movie as far away from the source material as possible. Look, Ma! I’m a Transformer!
1. Cheese
2. Printers
3. Dress Shoes
4. Hitmen
5. Kitchen Knives
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted. — Vladimir Lenin