Meetings Make us Dumber, study shows
People who are working in groups find it more difficult to develop alternative solutions to a problem, according to new research. I think this means that many people will think through the problem more when they are not waiting for someone else to give the answer, or maybe it’s because someone else gives the answer, and they forget what they were thinking about.
Anyway, what it means to me is that maybe we need to have more silence in our groups when thinking through a problem. I am all for discussion groups, but I also want everyone to contribute. What do you think about this new research?
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Amazing Grace: The Movie opens tonight. It’s the story of William Wilberforce, the 18th century antislavery pioneer who worked hard to end slave trade in England.
What’s more, it’s part of a really cool campaign called The Amazing Change, which is a campaign to abolish modern day slavery. Be sure to check out the movie and do what you can to help change the world.
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Sam Metcalf has a great post on design over on his blog. Here are some excerpts:
Whether Steve Jobs or BMW realize it or not, design is one of the great evidences of the imago dei. We design and our souls respond to such innately because we are reflections of the great designer Himself.
Words may sway the mind, but art has the potential to touch the soul.
Check out the whole post here.
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I love going to Starbucks. If I had a choice, I would make that place my classroom and office. There are just a lot of things about it that I think have added to the success. Why else would people pay 4 bucks for coffee? Besides the “status” of Starbucks, there are other things that make them successful. By the way, I only get the coffee of the day (the cheapest one) when I go, usually. Here are some things that we could learn from Starbucks. I believe they are lessons that we could use in youth ministry and in the church.
- Comfortability: Make the area comfortable for visitors. Starbucks reminds me a lot of a living room. It’s a comfortable place. The tables and chairs, paint, lighting, and everything invite you to stay a while. In fact, they have as their goal to be your “third place” besides work and home. They want to be the next place you go to besides those first two obvious places, so they make it comfortable for you while you are there.
- Choices: I read somewhere that there are over 19,000 combinations of Starbucks drinks. That’s a lot of coffee variations. Isn’t it funny how usually we only offer things one way? Why can’t we allow people to choose what they want? I think that has a lot to do with the success of web 2.0, too.
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