If I were to start a new ministry or organization there’s a number of things that I would have as foundational elements. I would definitely include your “typicals” but one thing that I would definitely do is include Google’s “20 percent time” statute.
In other words, I would make it a “rule” that employees must spend 1 day out of their work week developing themselves and/or developing their own projects and following their own personal technological interests.
An entire day. 8 full working hours dedicated to personal innovation.
I wouldn’t do this just to be “different” but because I believe that offering this level of freedom in terms of one’s creative talents and abilities gives them the opportunity to better the overall ministry and business.
If you were to start up a new ministry and/or organization, what would you do differently? If you have done this yourself already, what did you do that made it awesome?
[Image from Andre]