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GC24: Killer Gamification: Engaging for Impact

Engaging Leader

If poor design is a primary culprit of failed gamification, how can you improve your chances of success? Even so, Gartner also predicted that by 2015, 40% of Global 1000 organizations will use gamification as the primary mechanism to transform business operations.

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4 Illustrations of Faith in Practice…

Ron Edmondson

Illustration One: “Make yourself an ark of gofer wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and outside. Related posts: How to Guarantee Success in the New Year. And Noah did this. He did everything that God had commanded him. Genesis 6:14, 22 HCSB). More importantly, what will your faith look like in practice?

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GO FOR IT! – Encouragement to stand against naysayers

Ron Edmondson

You’ll never be successful that way. I base that on the fact that they certainly are successful at stopping progress many times. Would Noah have built the ark? And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the desert? I know how conceited you are and how wicked your heart is; you came down only to watch the battle.”

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3 Ways To Energize Your Recruitment Plan

Tim Milburn

Noah’s Ark was built by volunteers; the Titanic was built by professionals.”. Successful recruitment happens when you (and others as they join in) can identify the kind of people who will be interested in what you’re doing and then creatively and imaginatively invite them in a way that is compelling. Now it’s time to get to work.

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How I Made the Transition from the Corporate World To Ministry World

Ron Edmondson

I got it last week from a man who is a practicing CPA and a successful entrepreneur, but feels something is missing in his life. You can look up the reference, but basically God told priests carrying the ark of God to cross a body of water, but God made the priests get in the water before He parted the water.).

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Your New Hit Product Might Be Underpriced

Harvard Business Review

The problem with wildly successful products. But in 2003, the company didn’t realize the mega hit it was about to have with the Noah’s Ark play set. They then grossly underestimate how much customers would be willing to pay for them and charge prices far below what they could have charged.

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The Nostalgia Trap

Harvard Business Review

From 1947 to the start of the 1970s, every successive cohort of young men earned, on average, three times as much in constant dollars as their fathers had at the same age. In that environment, labor took home a much larger share of economic growth than it does today. In the U.S.,

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