My series of four articles (plus a postscript) analyzing the regional spiritual renewal initiative Transforming the Bay with Christ: A Platform for Regional Transformation? From Platforms to Governance Trading Control for Authority The Process for Products TBC Postscript: A Missional Creed
TBC Postscript: A Missional Creed
I believe the mission of Transforming the Bay with Christ is to: Mobilize, Unify, and Grow the Body of Christ To Bless the San Francisco Bay Area Through the Transforming Power of the Cross
TBC 4: The Process for Products
One of the key insights about entrepreneurship in the last decade is that a startup is not just a small version of a established business. Rather, a startup is an organization formed to search for a business model, rather than execute one. In particular, this implies that startups should be designed to maximize learning by exploiting surprises. This is the exact opposite of a traditional business, which attempts to increase predictability by avoiding surprises. To get the optimal structure, we need to be clear on: Which things we need to learn (the problem) How we are going to learn them (the process) Who will own the learning (the people) What will prove we have learned the right lessons (the product)
TBC 3: Trading Control for Authority
...every organization's health is driven by three flows: Money (resources) Power (actions) Ideas (data) Over time, as the organization matures, all three flows more closely aligned with each other and the structure of the organization. Just like the blood, muscles, and nerves of a human body. But when building a platform, we have to reverse that process by giving up control over those flows...
TBC 2: From Platforms to Governance
In our first installment on Transforming the Bay with Christ (TBC), we talked about how platforms enable us to tackle problems and markets too big for any one entity to manage directly. Because of that, though, it is much harder to create a successful platform than it is to create a successful program. In this installment, we will talk about how to do that.
TBC 1: A Platform for Regional Transformation?
Possibly the most exciting thing to happen to local Christianity in over a decade, Transform the Bay with Christ is a coalition of business and church leaders who appear to be pursuing: - Service to the community - Church growth and unity - Society-wide revival I was very encouraged to hear that, instead of a series of programs, they are considering a platform approach...
Wide Open (or, Are You In?)
He's my hero. THIS is how I dream of running my own projects / company.
Leaving Apple after 17 years to launch a startup
After arguably the most amazing 17 years in computing history — seeing UNIX spread from iMac to the Apple Watch — I've decided it is time to leave Apple and strike out on my own. I'll be taking a few months off to play with some ideas I've been working on for making programming more... Continue Reading →
Entrepreneur Club, Week 4 “The Hidden”
Our focus this week is what Ed Catmull of Pixar calls “The Hidden” — all those things we don’t know we don’t know: https://kindle.amazon.com/post/OZyI6U1PRpauw911nX_jlw In the management context, particularly, it behooves us to ask ourselves constantly: How much are we able to see? we would inevitably be subject to those same delusions at Pixar unless we... Continue Reading →
Entrepreneur Club, Week 5 “Customer Zero”
The theme for next week is “Listening to God.” As Christian Entrepreneurs, we have an unfair advantage: God is both our primary sponsor (“Investor Zero”) and ultimate customer (“Customer Zero”). Thus, we ought be paying even more attention to Him than we do the humans we rely upon for financial backing. So why don’t we?... Continue Reading →
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