From Idea to Implementation: Three Keys for Change Efforts in Churches

Most church leaders have ideas, but not all ideas lead to change. What separates the dream from reality?

In 1948, two graduate students at the Drexel Institute of Technology overheard a supermarket executive discussing a fundamental problem—the need for an automatic system to read each product item. Working together, the two students helped change the way retailers do business. They created the idea of a barcode.

Before the barcode, supermarket clerks had to punch numbers into a keypad. It was s...