His Master’s Voice
Wednesday, 14 January 2015
By Bernice Lee Have you ever seen the focused attention of a dog who is anticipating a tasty treat or a meal? One morning at breakfast, I watched our dog Dusty taking up position by the side of my husband’s chair. You want a picture of undivided devotion? This was it. Dusty has been blessed
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Stand for Something
Friday, 14 November 2014
By Dan Balow When Al Ries and Jack Trout published their classic marketing book Positioning in 1981, the concept of the book and the single-word title became a white-hot marketing buzzword, much in the same way as “platform” is today. I am not going to dig into that classic business title today or come up
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Giving Up Control: The art of mentoring
Wednesday, 10 September 2014
By Richard Crespo Many years ago I read an article about mentoring called, “Coaching Without a Paddle.” The author used the analogy of floating in a canoe without a paddle to describe the mentoring process of not being able to control the outcome. As a new convert, the Apostle Paul was mentored by a more
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MAI Launches Webinars for Global Christian Publishers
Friday, 22 November 2013
MAI is expanding its global publisher training with the launch of free monthly webinars. “While MAI considers on-site face-to-face training as the most effective way to help grow words of life in the hearts and soil of readers worldwide, we also see webinars as a relatively inexpensive tool to broaden and multiply our reach,” said Ramon
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Thank God I am a journalist
Tuesday, 30 July 2013
Nigerian journalist Lekan Otufodunrin is online and special publications editor at The Nation Newspapers. As president of Journalists for Christ International Outreach, he wrote this devotion to encourage other writers. Lekan is also a Trustee of the newly-formed MAI-Africa. At an interactive session with a group of students recently, Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka revealed
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Are you stuck?
Tuesday, 09 July 2013
Where do new ideas come from? Michael Collie of SPCK Australia challenges you to “think outside the box” with these creative tips. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTUddG6WYpg&feature=youtu.be The brain was designed to think habitually. If we want to think creatively we need to circumvent this. Three ways to avoid habitual thinking include: 1) Introduce a random idea. Example: When designing a
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