Articles for tag: Tribes

May 9, 2010

By LeRoy Lawson Jeff Jarvis,Â What Would Google Do? (New York: HarperCollins, 2009). Gary Hamel with Bill Breen,Â The Future of Management (Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing, 2007). Seth Godin, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us (New York: Penguin Group, 2008). Does WWGD? look familiar, like maybe WWJD? If so, then Jeff Jarvis has made his point. As Christians ask what Jesus would do, Jarvis argues that organizations wanting to prosper in today”s brave new world need to ask what super-Internet-searcher Google would do, because Google does it right. No company in history has grown like it. Jarvis has “reverse engineered”

August 5, 2009

Christian Standard

Culture & Public Square Technology

More Than Technology, and Not Boring at All

By Mark A. Taylor Troy McMahon walked into his local Starbucks June 18 and was surprised his friend, the barista, mentioned Troy”s recent trip to San Francisco. “How did you know about that?” Troy asked. “I”ve been following you on Facebook,” came the answer. The coffee server doesn”t attend Restore Community Church where Troy preaches””yet! But he”s one of many people the church planter reaches by using the sometimes maligned Internet social networking site Facebook. Paul Williams struck a responsive chord with his curmudgeonly critique of Facebook May 31. “On Facebook it seems all of life has been trivialized and