"When van Commenee was interviewed himself he made it clear that ‘culture change’ could not be condensed into a new program or a new training manual for athletics. Rather he singled out three things; team spirit, dedicated back up staff and individually tailored training programs for each athlete."
Is this not analogous to what is needed for the CofE in relation to pioneering? It seems to me that the best of our pioneers are very much aware that no matter how much insight, inspiration and get-up-and go they have individually, in the end a team is needed and we rely on the effort and input of others (connect this with a recent speech by +Rowan Williams on a couple of petitions of the Lord's prayer). I'm certainly aware of the back up staff thing (and sometimes frustrated by some of the way that the CofE organises itself in this respect) and I've long advocated the individualised learning approach -coaching- sometimes I've blogged things relating to that as 'vocation-shaped church'.
No gains without culture change August 2010 � Metavista:
04 August 2010
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