Hello friends!

Years ago when I was a church minister I developed the personal mantra that it's "all about people". In fact just checking the original blog post now, I can tell you I started saying that in 2009!

I was reflecting on how all the stuff I learned and skills I developed as a minister – the doctrine, the approaches, the examples, the effort – it was in the end all for real people and had to be lived out in real lives, not some theoretical world where I was the pastor and everyone was just "people in my church".

I went on to somewhat pensively reflect:

• Individuals are living a life that’s missing people
• Businesses are selling a product and building a brand, but missing helping people
• Bloggers are writing to impress others, but not empower people
• Opinionated critics blow hot hair but can’t lend a hand to people
• Churches are running a ministry but have forgotten about the people
• People like myself, that consider themselves to be helping people, but haven’t in the last week really got down in the trenches with people.

Perhaps if we stopped what we are doing and asked ourselves, “where are the people?”, then we’d be far more satisfied. I know that for me, meeting, helping and engaging with people is the most refreshing thing I do.

It’s all about people. Isn’t it?

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Anyway, what has this to do with today? Well, I've been doing a series of short videos purely on the subject of "it's all about people". Because, after all, I still think it's all about people.

And the greater the value we wish to create, the higher it goes up the economic scale, the more people-centric it is. If we can't become people-centric, then our ability to deliver higher levels of value is hampered.

So anyhoo, here's my YouTube Series. I suggest you watch it in reverse, starting with the video about PORRIDGE.

Yours engagingly,
Scott



P.S. I'm in a bunch of places over the next week speaking at various conferences! If you are in Tel Aviv, Zagreb, Sofia, London or Bristol between now and Sunday 13th May, give me a shout and I'll buy you a whisky. (If you don't like whisky, I'll drink it for you. That sounds fair!)