24min clip - Why People Are So Confident When They're Wrong

Interchangeable people = consistency but loses individual judgment and sensitivity

 

3min 54sec clip - The Psychology of Excuses [How People Justify Hurting Others]

The Barbary Slave Trade & Other European Slave Trade Networks Where People Were Abducted And Sold Into Slavery From As Far Afield As Iceland & Ireland

A fascinating thread of people enjoying their lives in the 1890s

A fascinating thread of people enjoying their lives in the 1890s

Footage from the Lumière brothers. In 1895, they invented the Cinematograph, a film camera that also functioned as a photo developer & projector

What do you notice about the way that we were?

1. France 🇫🇷 pic.twitter.com/wM1r1y2WB2

— Time Capsule Tales (@timecaptales) August 21, 2024

17min 50sec clip - THE SOVIET UNION AND ITS PEOPLE " 1951 ARMED FORCES SCREEN REPORT USSR

a #redditthread - What’s a piece of propaganda that to this day still has many people fooled?

10 things to remember when dealing with other people - a list without irony

1) Unorganised people are simply creative and open to the spirit of the moment

2) Whilst organised people are bureaucratic dictators stifling innovation

3) My phone always goes to voicemail but you need to always answer your phone

4) People who think the market always delivers the best solution aren't very observant

5) In a meeting most attendees won't have read the papers

6) Most people's planning horizon is four weeks ahead - apart from their holidays

7) I may not always reply to your messages but you need to reply to all of mine immediately

8) When people say the regulations require X they can rarely cite the clause that says that

9) And the regulations mostly call for reasonable endeavors rather than specific actions

10) When you are talking to others they're mostly thinking about what they want to say next

#fridayfacts When people are most on various apps

When people are most on various apps - from Ofcom's 2017 Report on the UK's Communications Market #fridayfacts

20min @circulareconomy clip - Azeem Azhar - Why the #digital #revolution is really about values and people, 2018 Summit

Text from youtube "Early stage technology investor and author of the popular technology newsletter The Exponential View, Azeem Azhar, makes the case that in a world of rapid technological innovation, what really matters is the values and principles that are applied to the way in which we design the products, services and systems around us. 

The 2018 Summit took place at The Roundhouse in London on Thursday June 21st. Speakers discussed big ideas and world-views re-shaping how we view our economy, the role of digital technologies in making the previously unimaginable possible and shared stories of disruptive realities in business, cities and policy already happening today. Thank you for watching this video. 

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation is a UK charity working on business, learning, insight & analysis, and communications to accelerate the transition towards the circular economy.

#ruralpresence Setting God’s People Free – a resource from the CofE

(this post was 1st published on the Rural Presence Blog)

As the Setting God’s People Free (SGPF) page on the CofE’s website says, 

“SGPF is a programme of change to enable the whole people of God to live out the Good News of Jesus confidently in all of life, Monday to Saturday as well as Sunday. ”
On the page are 2 resources, plus an email sign up form for updates as more resources become available.  

Here’s a heads up on what’s already out:

1) Setting God’s People Free report

This is a summary version for discussion in Deaneries & PCC’s.  Some headlines and quotations from this 14 page document:

” … the Church exists in two forms – ‘gathered’ and ‘sent’….

• gathered  … when we are worshipping together on a Sunday or during the week …
• sent … when we are out in the world  … in our various walks of life.

… the focus of the report is on ensuring that what we do when we are gathered nurtures us for our role when we are sent. “

The report says that two vital shifts have to occur so that we …

1. teach and equip lay people to follow Jesus confidently in every sphere of life in ways that show the difference the Gospel makes.
2. recognise lay and clergy are equal in worth and status, complementary in gifting and vocation, mutually accountable in discipleship, and equal partners in mission.

It then goes on to identify eight key levers of change.  The 1st four it identifies are about how the national church and dioceses operate:

• Reforming structures/legislation to strengthen relationships between clergy and lay people.
• Bishops integrating an interest in and a concern for lay people into personal and Diocesan priorities, practices, and processes.
• Re-focussing clergy selection, training, and development to integrate a concern for the development and discipling of lay people.
• Reorienting church communications to create a balance between the historic focus on clergy and the Church as an institution and the central role of lay people in the life and mission of the Church in the world.

although the fourth point is arguably something that local churches can affect, too.

The other four levers of change the report lists are about what local churches can do.

• Developing a biblical vision for the role of lay people.
• Listening to lay people’s experiences.
• Equipping lay people for their Monday to Saturday frontline ministries.
• Enhancing our gathered worship and liturgy to resource lay people for their Monday to Saturday lives.

The document lists a number of things happening to help implementation including, for example, the development of a national online portal for whole-life discipleship.  The report concludes with some questions that may be helpful as people explore the report and its implications with PCC, Deanery Synod or small groups within a church.
The 2nd resource is …

2) Setting God’s People Free for Monday to Saturday

This 16 page document starts with a section titled “Getting Started: Small shifts to a big difference”.  This goes through a number of tried and tested ways to achieve small shifts to make a big difference: here’s the contents page…

1min #wef clip - The #sleep habits of successful #people

6min 26sec @TEDEd animated clip - Why do people join #cults ? - Janja Lalich

Today, there are thousands of cults around the world. Broadly speaking, a cult is a group or movement with a shared commitment to a usually extreme ideology that’s typically embodied in a charismatic leader. But what exactly differentiates cults from other groups – and why do people join them? Janja Lalich describes how cults recruit and manipulate their members.

3min clip - putting #people in #boxes

found via laughingsquid

6min 19sec clip - auto - #shifting cars & #people & balloons - it gets better from 1min 10sec

 

found via sploid

3min clip - a #photograph is shaped more by the person behind the #camera than by what's in front of it

the @c_of_e strategic ppl dev report - y can't they publish it b4 Jan so we can see the underlying theology?

The Church Times recently reported on a CofE report that recommends changes to how people are identified and developed for strategic leadership roles in the church.

Summarising from the Church Times article it appears that:

1) The intention of this and other recommendations in the report is to be more open to leaders from a wider variety of backgrounds and to deliver sustainable organisational change.  

2) In 2015/16 (as far as we can tell):

- 36 diocesan bishops will complete a modular programme;

- 60 (mosty) deans will complete a mini MBA programme;

- 54 bishops & deans will complete a contributing to the common good programme;

- there will be a start to create a talent pool (identified via bishops' nominations) of around 150 people who will be in the pool on average 5 years.  30 or so a year (presumably after a couple of years) will deploy from the pool to senior leadership roles

Much of the above will use tools such as 360 degree feedback, tailored development programmes, performance measurement and an alumni network.


Looking at the feed from my 2800 or so strong public CofE twitter list I'd guesstimate that the comments by CofE tweeters are generally not favourable to what has been reported.


At this stage all I think I would venture to say with any certainty is that:

a) the reported language is very similar to that which secular organisations have adopted (and indeed some diocese have with their strategies)

b) because the report is unpublished it isn't possible to say what theological arguments it makes for the approach proposed - nor how it has used such to critically assess which modern people development practices the church should adopt and which it shouldn't


Other's posts/resources on this subject

Senior Church Leadership A Resource for Reflection - found via Thinking Anglicans 

artsy honker - cofe throwing money at the wrong problem

rachell mann - these are not the leaders you are looking for

martyn percy - are these the leaders that we really want?

andrew lightbrown - An open letter to Lord Green et al

richard murphy - Should the Church of England really be taking a lead from Lord Stephen Green? 

michael sadgrove - The Next Generation of Church Leaders: thoughts on the Green Report

Six Awkward Situations for #Shy People

what do 7 billion #people do?

by annavital.
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#supercut - there are 2 types of people

via mashable