We grant instant credibility to the person with the loudest voice. We are addicted to them. But voice alone is not enough to change the world. The person who can change the world, person by person, is one willing to invest the life-long time to serving others.
Rube Goldberg became famous for drawing comical contraptions both complex and entertaining. His pictures are of complicated machines doing simple tasks. For a drawing it is hilarious. For communicators this is a cardinal sin.
Your message calls for a response. It offers information. It is important to you. Three questions que into how much you care about, or own, your message. What you say? How you say it? How people could respond?
The communication and leadership journey you engage in rotates around the concept of moving a person from one place of understanding to another. It isn’t manipulation it is motivation. An important aspect, oft’ overlooked, is the need for steps.
The following is a brief synopsis of ZION’s creative history and process. This is the “how” behind what we do in our weekend experiences in multiple locations. The end contains contact information and links.
People are blogging and tweeting and facebooking and IM-ing and texting. We pass memos on stenos. We give and get reports. In the midst of all the info we kill each other more, abandon and abuse more, destroy and destruct more…In the cluttering, compacting age of info were did all the wisdom go?
Three things form our perspective; context, experience and knowledge. Where you are, what you know and where you have been. Each of these factors form how we see and interprete everything, create paradigms and worldviews.
