November 16, 2005
doooowntoooown...
I am on the 28th floor. I can see outside when I get out of the copy room (The copy room is my current home away from home.). It is a dreary day, but that does not stop me from being impressed with the scenery. The view is quite nice.
I have been a subscriber to a couple of business magazines for a while now. I read Forbes and Fast Company. I would encourage you to check out Forbes magazine. The current issue has a brief article about Judge Alito. The editors are cautious. They are not convinced that such a conservative interpreter of the constitution would be good for big business. They fear how he might judge on lawsuits because "[The Supreme Court] can't find the phrase 'protection from excessive punitve damages' anywhere in the Constitution." It would seem that Scalia and Thomas almost always side opposite big business in this regard. Will Alito be more of the same?
Fast Company has an interesting article about how the MBA may no longer be the gold standard in cutting edge companies. I may be rereading this article if I cannot get a church in Chicago. I don't know a thing about neuroscience either, but it is interesting. Urgh.
There is also an article about simplicity and internet companies. 
tries to keep things simple. This, according to the author, is what makes them so successful. Finally, this article tosses out this gem of a quotation:
In their endless rush to embrace the next big thing, too many businesses have forgotten what they are and what they really do. The fashionable compulsion to break with the past has, bizarrely, come to mean abandoning the true value they once offered customers.
This sounds like many of the church growth seminars that I have attended. Sure, change has its place, but if you uproot, there is nothing to sustain the change. Is the Emergent Movement yet another blind change or can it hold on to the Gospel while it explores unusual worship places and liturgies? I am trying to figure out what it is saying to church planters.
