Management Skilled And Pastor Andy Stanley Simply Made A Great Level About Twitter

Generally, you want a reminder about why a bit of expertise is so helpful.

After writing what was primarily an obituary about Twitter, I got here throughout a management podcast with the well-known pastor and management skilled Andy Stanley.

Actually, it made me like Twitter just a little bit extra.

He was chatting with one other well-known luminary within the management house named John Maxwell. These guys know what they’re speaking about and are gifted communicators and e book authors. All the chat is on YouTube proper right here:

It was a passing remark about Twitter that caught my consideration.

Andy Stanley just lately wrote a e book about division and battle, and he talked about how he makes use of Twitter to do a few of his analysis. He understands some folks don’t like Twitter, however he’s a fan. “I love Twitter, I follow all kinds of people,” he mentioned.

Stanley went on to clarify a remark he learn on Twitter and the way it impacted his writing and thought course of. The tweet he discovered had a nuance and an articulate expression that impressed him. “Problems can be solved where there can be a conversation with nuance,” he mentioned a bit later within the episode.

That final remark floored me. Wait, is he actually speaking about Twitter? The Twitter I like to hate? Sure, and that’s the nice hope with the platform, particularly as we enter a brand new time frame when Elon Musk could be really buying the platform, and as we launch into a brand new political season within the coming weeks.

It additionally jogs my memory of one in every of my favourite quotes about social media, from the director and producer J.J. Abrams: “We live in a moment where everything immediately seems to default to outrage,” Abrams advised EW.com not way back. “There’s an M.O. where ‘it’s either exactly as I see it or you’re my enemy’. It’s a crazy thing that there’s such a norm that seems to be devoid of nuance and compassion….we knew every decision we made would please someone and infuriate someone else.”

I like that abstract. It means Twitter has two choices.

One is to permit nuanced discussions, to offer salient info and good analysis to assist management consultants like Andy Stanley and e book authors like John Maxwell. The opposite is to let nuance result in fixed debate, the splitting of hairs over the fantastic factors of any and each subject beneath the solar. Nuance is definitely a constructive phrase. It occurs once we discover the nuance of music, or an awesome speech, or a creative expression. Nuance means there’s a subtlety of excellence and it’s important to search for it fastidiously.

Stanley was hinting at one of many nice advantages of utilizing Twitter.

You will discover the nuance; it does exist. You’ll be able to uncover some wonderful truths, even with the character limits in place. I’ve seen numerous pithy statements, quick expressions of brilliance, and humorous (and nuanced) jokes. I hate to confess it in public, however I like these BuzzFeed round-ups of the very best Twitter jokes. They’re hilarious.

I hope that by no means adjustments. The opposite type of nuance results in splitting hairs and fixed pointless debate. The sky is blue, however not likely. Minor discrepancies are working rampant and destroy all the expertise. It appears to depend upon who’s tweeting and who’s studying the tweets. Everybody loses once we solely cut up hairs.

For now, each nuances exist. The constructive sort exists, these golden nuggets that may assist e book authors categorical in only some phrases one thing that may change your life. The opposite nuance is competing for our consideration, championed by trolls.

Whether or not Twitter even survives is determined by which nuance wins out.