Dueling Editors

You work for a major publisher that is preparing a new edition of its study Bible. Somewhere several floors above your cubicle, the decision was made to split up the text of the Bible into relatively small units and to print descriptive headings at the top of every unit. Each story and topic will have its own short summary heading.

You are part of the editorial team working on the New Testament. You were out sick on Friday when the other three members met to discuss sections and headings for several chapters of Mark. From the post-meeting emails you have been copied on, you can tell something is wrong. It was definitely a good day to be out of the office!

Yet just as you are congratulating yourself on the great timing of your germs, you receive an email from the team leader asking you to prepare a proposal for how to split Mark 4:1-34 into sections and for headings to use in the Bible for those sections. She wants the "fresh perspective" of someone who was not at the meeting Friday. What will you propose to the others on Monday? Go to coaching pages.

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