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	<title>3:Strands Consulting</title>
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	<description>The Strength of 3</description>
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		<title>Leaders in Denial</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Richard S. Tedlow, Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School has a forthcoming book entitled Denial: Why Business Leaders Fail to Look Facts in the Face.  Harvard Business Review (July-August 2008) included a few thoughts on denial that were applicable to churches and church leaders. 
“Sigmund Freud described denial as a state of ‘knowing-but-not-knowing.’  The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.3strandsconsulting.com/resources/blog/2008/11/10/leaders-in-denial/</link>
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		<title>Good Intentions Aren&#8217;t Enough</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Growing up in the church and serving as a minister on staff in several local churches, most of the people I have encountered along the way have had good intentions.  They mean well.  They really care.  They love God and do their best to love others.  They read their Bible.  They pray.  They show up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.3strandsconsulting.com/resources/blog/2008/11/05/good-intentions-arent-enough/</link>
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		<title>Accurately Evaluating Your Ministries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now is the time when many churches and church leaders evaluate the year to date and discuss ministry needs and goals for the future.  A growing trend in churches is to simplify their ministry offerings using the mantra, “Less is more.”


When this chant begins to gain momentum, the conversation typically results in discussing the various [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.3strandsconsulting.com/resources/blog/2008/11/03/accurately-evaluating-your-ministries/</link>
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		<title>Ministry Evaluation + Planning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is time to start developing your ministry plans for next year. One often forgotten, but key element in planning is evaluation. Spend time with your team reviewing your ministry events year to date and identify the &#8220;wins&#8221; you have experienced. In addition to the wins, examine the losses and determine what changes or adjustments [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.3strandsconsulting.com/resources/blog/2008/10/31/ministry-evaluation-planning/</link>
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		<title>The whole world is watching</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote, &#8220;When everyone has a blog, a MySpace page or Facebook entry, everyone is a publisher. When everyone has a cell phone with a camera in it, everyone is a paparazzo. When everyone can upload video on YouTube, everyone is a filmmaker. When everyone is a publisher, paparazzo or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.3strandsconsulting.com/resources/blog/2008/09/18/the-whole-world-is-watching/</link>
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		<title>The Price of Inflation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
 The question most often asked of and by church leaders is “How large is your church?”  This universal question serves as an instant measuring stick for church leaders everywhere.  The pressure to appear successful creates a temptation that is too great for most church leaders.  Here is the typical scenario: If the year to date [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.3strandsconsulting.com/resources/blog/2008/08/21/the-price-of-inflation/</link>
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		<title>From significance to security</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve never read Bob Buford&#8217;s book, Halftime, it is well worth your time. Buford wrote the book a decade ago, but the principles still resonate today. Buford used a sports analogy to address the issue of a mid-life crisis. He examined how most people spend the first half of their life trying to attain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.3strandsconsulting.com/resources/blog/2008/07/23/from-significance-to-security/</link>
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		<title>Your Next Church*</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Barry Bonds finally broke the home run record this fall many sportswriters and fans called for the record to be marked with an asterisk to denote that many of his home runs resulted from the use of performance enhancing substances. Bonds disputed the asterisk tag and recently declared he would reject an induction into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.3strandsconsulting.com/resources/blog/2008/06/04/your-next-church/</link>
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		<title>Creative Names</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Blue Book of Building and Construction has ranked the top 20 most appropriately named portable toilet companies in the country including:

Tanks A Lot (Texas)
Doodie Calls (Louisiana)
Johnny On The Sport (New Jersey)
Drop Zone (Illinois)
Loader-Up (Florida)
Wizards of Ooze (Washington DC)
UrinBiz (Michigan)
Willy Make It? (Oregon)
Gotta Go Potties (Pennsylvania)
Happy Can Portable Toilets (Georgia)
Ameri-Can Engineering (Indiana)
Bobby’s Pottys (Maryland)

While it’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.3strandsconsulting.com/resources/blog/2008/05/12/creative-names/</link>
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		<title>What does your name say about you?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I take pride in my first name because while it is not unique, it is uncommon. Whether in school or at work I have always been the only &#8220;Kent&#8221;. My dad’s initials are &#8220;KEF&#8221; and my parents wanted a name that would yield the same result, so I became Kent Edward and I have enjoyed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.3strandsconsulting.com/resources/blog/2008/04/19/what-does-your-name-say-about-you/</link>
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