Marginal Christianity

Seth Godin's pithy insight. Is your church a lab or a factory? You work at one, or the other. At the lab, the pressure is to keep searching for a breakthrough, a new way to do things. And it's accepted that the cost of this insight is failure, finding out what doesn't work on your way to figuring out what does. The lab doesn't worry so much about exploiting all the value of what it produces--they're too busy working on the next thing. Read more at http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2013/06/the-lab-or-the-factory.html

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/512621/the-religion-of-innovation/ David Zax March 18, 2013 Enough with innovation for innovation’s sake. BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins took a shot at Apple today, speaking to a reporter for The Australian Financial Review. While couching his statement in respectful terms–“Apple did a fantastic job in bringing touch devices to market”–Heins nonetheless suggested that Apple was lagging behind. “The user interface on the iPhone, with all due respect for what this invention was all about is now five years old,” he told the Review. Meanwhile, a series of analysts have suggested that Apple is taking too long to release its hardware updates. Charles Golvin of Forrester said that Apple’s current rate of releases is “not an adequate cadence for Apple to remain at the forefront of smartphone innovation today.” ...