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The smashing of the cream egg.

By a NZ guy, built in his flat...

The month that was...

Firstly Kevin Carroll author of the Red Runner Ball, did a shoutout about my very out of date block. You can read it here. http://kevincarrollkatalyst.com/index.php/blog/shoutout_thursday/

I was blown away, and humbled that Kevin, wrote about me. The net and social networking perplex me alot.

Some posts I wrote in the last month:

I Think I Do... @ lead2live.com

Mowing the lawns ... oh JOY! @ lead2live.com

sexy @ lead2live.com

Power companies are greedy!

There was some coverage earlier in the week about potential power shortages later this year. This from stuff:

National energy spokesman Gerry Brownlee said "things are very, very tight". "If we don't get rain in significant volume by the end of the month, going into the first week of May, we could be in considerable trouble." and "It was too early to think about a public savings campaign."

Firstly the RED line doesn't look that good. If that was sales in a business, it would be bad, wouldn't it?

Secondly, of course its too early to get the public to make savings. That would drive demand down, which would drive the price down.

It makes far better business sense to wait until there is a full on shortage, when spot prices are really high, then loss in revenue from savings, is more than offset by the increase in prices. Yeah its a hassle for their customers, but profits are stunning!

Conclusion: NZ still has some huge infrastructure issues! - Thanks Aunty Helen & Uncle Mike. Thankfully one of my family gets more out of the power companies than we pay.

Book Review: Compassionate Leadership

It was one of those books in which the title challenged my thinking more than the book itself. It was an OK read but the authors really tried to say there was more to servant leadership, that leaders needed to be compassionate. The problem is, they then use the term "Servant Leader" more often than compassionate leader, and their entire summary was what "Servant Leaders do..."

Overall it was a good summary of Servant Leadership, though not a griping read.

Uppermost in the mind of a compassionate leader is the constant quest to know and understand the will of God, and to seek His wisdom and guidance. ...

Effective leaders must be willing ti be in the state of constant learning. There is no relaxing or even plateauing.

Servant leaders are characterized by a thorough and ever expanding knowledge of God's Word. They use their biblical wisdom, and understand clearly the grace of God.

Pg 116

The challenge, if not just from the title, be a compassionate leader!