Comments for Pioneers Blog: Along the Way

Comment on The Loss of Community by Malcolm

Malcolm — Thu, 06 May 2010 17:33:30 +0000

Thanks for this post, expressing what I think is a needed reminder from a balanced perspective! I appreciate your field story of community and ways the arrival of technology changed that interaction.

“People would hurry off knowing they could connect by phone or email later.” – I find it interesting how increased methods of communication appear to actually decrease the communication/community.

Comment on Advantages to Teamwork – Part 1 by Donnie

Donnie — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:19:18 +0000

Hi Greg, Sorry to be so late in responding. You have said some powerful things in your entry. You are right for sure that there are a lot of loose ideas about teams. Steve Richardson wrote a great article on teams. Though idealistic, I think it does present a positive sentiment of what is a good goal. One book I can highly recommend is “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team” by Patrick Lencioni. I’ll write more a little later …

Comment on Advantages to Teamwork – Part 2 by Amy

Amy — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:29:57 +0000

The annual report is amazing! We got in in the mail a couple of weeks ago and I was so impressed. The team did a great job.

I’m definitely with you on the sentiment about prefering to work on teams – team work feeds my soul and also increases the quality of the work (like you said) by, somtimes, exponential degrees.

Comment on Advantages to Teamwork – Part 1 by Greg

Greg — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:58:56 +0000

Thanks for this entry on teams. From my experience there is so much uncertainty as to what a team really is. Some have a dream of what team should be but we never really reach that and so people are discouraged and want to give up. I would love to hear more about teams and just how teams DO work well and why they do. In my situation people are looking for a team where everyone is involved in a similar task and if at any moment you say to them that you would like to work on something by yourself, they are hurt and tell yo that you must not be a team player. I am confused.

Comment on WELCOME! by Malcolm

Malcolm — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:21:29 +0000

Great to see the new blog online! I’m looking forward to reading Donnie’s articles and looking at other resources that may be posted.

Comment on Who owns the “mission?” – Part 2 by Amy

Amy — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:06:52 +0000

I like what you said about there being ‘no hierarchy in mission’. It can be really easy to elevate one kind of involvement in mission over another and it’s so wrong! Thanks also for the reminder that there’s only one Head.