Drum roll, please…
Question Number One: What?
Question Number Two: So what?
Question Number Three: Now what?
Wait a minute? That’s it? What makes these questions so great?
Well…glad you asked.
What?
Every time we experience something—intellectual, spiritual, physical, social; doesn’t matter what—the instant we become aware that it was, in fact, an experience, the moment we give it our attention and [...]

You can drive a screw with a nail file or pound nails with a rock. Sometimes that’s just the fast, reasonably efficient, solve you’re looking for. We wouldn’t recommend relying on that particular set of tools if your goal is adding a room to your house.
Big jobs call for more sophisticated tools. A few basic [...]

Two or three people who trust each other become a churning, learning machine (Just look at the remarkable learning partnership between Larry Page, Sergey Brin and their Google CEO, Eric Schmidt).
But trust takes time and, more than time, intentional, generous, respect. Three thoughts about that…

Don’t compete. Listen until your partner is finished talking. If you [...]

Peer to Peer learning is an order of magnitude more demanding that Do It Yourself learning. Peer to Peer learning requires coordinating schedules and locations, finding common ground, hashing out a shared vocabulary, accommodating mistakes and working through disagreements.
It’s only worth it if it’s also an order of magnitude more rewarding. Ensuring a greater return [...]

If you’ve ever waited for someone who was waiting for you in another location with the same name (“I’ll meet you at Starbucks”), you know how people use the same words without meaning the same thing.
The solve on that is creating feedback loops to ensure understanding:
“The Starbucks on King?”
“No, the one in the mall.”
“Oh. Glad [...]

Pretty much everyone agrees we ought to be honest. Assuming honesty is a given in your learning partnership, the next question is, how open do you want to be?
Openness is measured by degrees of appropriate, present-tense, self-disclosure. Most Christians can be fairly honest without being very open. Conversations about temptation and failure tend to remain [...]

You can drive a screw with a nail file or pound nails with a rock. Sometimes that’s just the fast, reasonably efficient, solve you’re looking for. We wouldn’t recommend relying on that particular set of tools if your goal is adding a room to your house.
Big jobs call for more sophisticated tools. A few basic [...]

Two or three people who trust each other become a churning, learning machine (Just look at the remarkable learning partnership between Larry Page, Sergey Brin and their Google CEO, Eric Schmidt).
But trust takes time and, more than time, intentional, generous, respect. Three thoughts about that…

Don’t compete. Listen until your partner is finished talking. If you [...]

If you’ve ever waited for someone who was waiting for you in another location with the same name (“I’ll meet you at Starbucks”), you know how people use the same words without meaning the same thing.
The solve on that is creating feedback loops to ensure understanding:
“The Starbucks on King?”
“No, the one in the mall.”
“Oh. Glad [...]

Nobody you want in your small group is looking for another meeting to attend. Trying to recruit business people into an aimless small group is, as they say, a fool’s errand.
That said, you probably know several people whose lives aren’t working the way they wish; people who feel fragmented, torn by competing demands, afraid they’ll [...]

Pretty much everyone agrees we ought to be honest. Assuming honesty is a given in your learning partnership, the next question is, how open do you want to be?
Openness is measured by degrees of appropriate, present-tense, self-disclosure. Most Christians can be fairly honest without being very open. Conversations about temptation and failure tend to remain [...]

You can drive a screw with a nail file or pound nails with a rock. Sometimes that’s just the fast, reasonably efficient, solve you’re looking for. We wouldn’t recommend relying on that particular set of tools if your goal is adding a room to your house.
Big jobs call for more sophisticated tools. A few basic [...]

How can I deal with a person who talks too much?
How can I encourage a person who doesn’t talk at all?
I have a Catholic, a Baptist, two Presbyterians and a Pentecostal. Is this a problem?
There are a lot of questions here; where are the answers?
How can I deal with a Know-It-All?
What if people don’t prepare [...]

You can drive a screw with a nail file or pound nails with a rock. Sometimes that’s just the fast, reasonably efficient, solve you’re looking for. We wouldn’t recommend relying on that particular set of tools if your goal is adding a room to your house.
Big jobs call for more sophisticated tools. A few basic [...]