Team Leadership in the Mystery Gang

Because NewBreed trains teams for multiplication instead of the solo hero leader, for Exponential this year, NewBreed is going to be giving away famous team-up stickers. These aren’t your Nana’s stickers either. These are stickers with a purpose. They’re stickers about teams, true, but they’re also stickers about APEST.

Have you ever thought about the famous team-ups from pop culture over the past few decades and where the individuals in those teams might fit into an APEST framework?

I have.

If you’ve read any of my books, that may not be a surprise to you.

Scooby-Doo? Where are you? I may not know where Scooby is anymore than the theme song, but you could always tell where I was at 4 every afternoon before dinner; glued to the Mystery gang.

Apostle: Fred is the apostle, which irks me a bit, because he’s boring. But he’s the entrepreneur of the group, and despite his groovy cravat, he’s got an adventurous spirit and is never afraid to go on another escapade and do what needs to be done.

Prophet: Shaggy. You know I’m right.

Evangelist: Scooby-dooby Doo! It doesn’t matter that sometimes people have no idea “what this babbler is saying” like they said of Paul at Athens, but they also might say, “We want to hear you more on this matter.”

Shepherd: Daphne is always kind. She just never has a bad word to say about anyone and is often there to serve the team. 

Teacher: Velma. Again, you know I’m right. She’s the nerdy one with all the knowledge. Like Spurgeon said, “At home among the books, but at sea among men.”

Well that’s the unmasking of the APEST for this sticker…”and we would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for those meddling kids.”