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Malcolm Gladwell on the Challenges of Hiring Good People

Orginally published on Tuesday, July 08, 2008 at 7:22 AM
by Todd Rhoades

Recently, Malcolm Gladwell opened up the New Yorker Conference. His comments to the conference were supposed to be on "reinventing invention". In reality, he talks more about the practice of hiring good people in today's marketplace. This has some great implications and ideas for church work as well...

You can watch his message here...

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Tuesday, July 08, 2008 at 9:31 AM

#1) Is Malcolm Gladwell a Christian? Just curious. I’ve never heard his testimony.

#2) What people are “good”?

I’m of the cloth that the Church hiring and developing a staff is not a good thing in the first place. I should have prefaced that comment that I began thinking like this while my wife was on a church staff.

- a Church is not a business and it shouldn’t be run like a business.

- show me an example of the church operating like this in scripture

-it’s still POOR stewardship peoples giving at it’s very best

-Churches that develop huge overhead and infrastructure modeled after the business world usually look nothing like Romans 12 and 1 Corinthians 12. In other words, spectating is encouraged , BIBLICAL participation (see aforementioned scripture passages) are not.

-being on the parking team or a greeter or set up tear down is the full extent of “the gifts” in many churches now
Posted by

Tuesday, July 08, 2008 at 10:33 AM

jud:

I realize your post was tangential, but I am beginning to see the wisdom in not modeling church like businesses as well. The positions of bishops, pastors, elders, and deacons were all laid out in Scripture in radically different ways than they are used today. And I can’t see, “a changing of the times,” as a reason for why we shouldn’t stay with that model.

I also had to chime in on something you said:

“being on the parking team or a greeter or set up tear down is the full extent of “the gifts” in many churches now”

This is too true. I went to a “ministry fair” recently. I was hoping that there would be Bible studies, evangelism outreach, hospice care, and the like. Instead, it was more like coffee set up and greeters / ushers.

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Posted by

Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 4:11 PM

Take the time to listen to what he has to say: what he is saying is that objective measures are not sufficient for deciding who can do a good job anymore (if they ever were)—I think he is helping your point, really—that getting people on board, and equipping them, to do the work of ministry shouldn’t be approached like we are hiring cogs in a wheel, but rather we need to give people the job to do and see what surfaces.
Posted by Terry

Tuesday, August 05, 2008 at 3:08 AM

I agree, it’s really hard to find good help these days. I may go through 25 employees before I come to a winner/keeper that lasts more than a few weeks.
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