There is no ' I ' in TEAM, but as you have probably heard it said, there is an 'M' and an 'E'. While some date the birth of individualism as far back as 500 -1100 AD, the Renaissance in the 13-1400s and its celebration of human dignity and individual achievement certainly gave individualism fertile ground in which to grow. Alex de Tocqueville popularised the term in the mid-1800s while writing about his tour of North America. In 2000, Putnam's book 'Bowling Alone' used the increase in the ...
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20261018 Not Just Getting By - Digital Discipleship
Technology changes. In the good old days, if you wanted to watch TV, camped out in your 1980s Mitsubishi Sigma on the side of the road somewhere between Melbourne and Ulladulla on the NSW South Coast, you needed technology like this portable Toshiba TV and a battery pack. Technology changes. Now, if you wanted to do the same thing, you would just pull out your mobile phone, and chances are you could stream your favourite movie on demand. And while the screen size might not have changed...
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With a desire in the 1950s to settle an agreement about the fastest game bird, we now have the annual Guinness World Records, where we celebrate those who achieve record-breaking achievements and beat previous records. The hunger and thirst to be the best, individually or as a team, fuel passion and drive gambling business worldwide. AFL players are willing to risk brain injury like CTE and lay their lives on the line for player contracts and the hunger for a win. And so it is, each week we c...
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