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The Global Leadership Summit: Patrick Lencioni

August 12, 2011 in leadership with 0 Comments

Vulnerability

  • “People need to be reminded more than they need to be instructed.” – Samuel Johnson
  • Vulnerability – capable of being physically or emotionally wounded; open to attack or damage; liable to increased penalties but entitled to increased benefits.
  • Being vulnerable can bring great reward.
  • Being vulnerable brings pain and suffering, which is counter-cultural.
Three fears that keep us from being vulnerable:
1. The fear of losing the business (the fear of being rejected)
Rejection is something we are called to.
  • We have to enter the danger.
  • We have to speak the kind truth.
2. The fear of being embarrassed
  • When we are serving others we have to do things and ask things that may embarrass us.
  • When people know you are there to help them do better, they will let you in.
  • We have to celebrate our mistakes. When we acknowledge our humanity it is attractive to people and they want to be around us
3. The fear of feeling inferior
  • Do the dirty work.
  • Show people you are willing to do whatever you are asking them to do.
  • We need to be be more interested in others than we are interested in ourself.

The Global Leadership Summit: John Dickson

August 12, 2011 in leadership with 0 Comments

  • Humility is not humiliation, it is the nobel choice to forgo your status and use your influence for the good of others before yourself.
  • Humility does does not make your great, just like being great does not make you humble. Humility makes the great greater.
Humility is common sense.
  • We don’t know everything. Expertise in one area counts for very little in another area.
  • To preach well in our church, we have to listen to the wisdom that is in the pew. We don’t know everything about everything.
Humility is beautiful
  • We are more attracted to the great that are humble than we are to the great that know they are great and want us to know it to.
  • Humility has not always been beautiful. It actually meant slave in ancient Greece.
  • Jesus’ crucifixion changed the view of humility in the ancient world.
  • The Bible was the first text to connect greatness with humility.
  • Western culture has been profoundly changed by the cross. The cross changed everything.
Humility is generative
  • Humility generates new knowledge.
  • The humble place is the learning place.
  • The humble place is the place of flourishing.
Humility is persuasive
  • A person’s humility makes them believable.
  • Character compels
Humility inspires
  • When a leader is humble, we aspire to be like them because they, for a moment seem to be just like us and us just like them.
Four tools of leadership:
Ability Authority Character Persuasion

The Global Leadership Summit: Henry Cloud

August 12, 2011 in leadership with 0 Comments

  • Wherever you are, God has called you to be a steward over a vision.
  • Are you going to allow anyone to stop you from stewarding that vision.
What does a person do when the truth comes to them? Truth = Reality
Three different types of people: Wise, Fools, Evil
The Wise
  • When the light comes to them, that person adjusts themselves to match the light.
  • When the truth comes to them, they change… themselves or something else to match reality.
  • When you confront them, they thank you.
  • When you are leading a wise person, you talk to them. You coach them and give them feedback. You resource them.
  • With a wise person, the challenge is making sure they are a match for what you need.
Fool
  • A fool may be the brightest, most gifted person sitting at the table. Most of the time they are.
  • The problem is, unlike the wise person, when the light shows up, they adjust the light.
  • They try to change or adjust the truth.
  • They shoot the messenger.
  • The fool denies reality. They get angry.
  • They will not own any part of the problem.
  • When dealing with a fool, a leader needs to experience the feeling of hopelessness.
  • With a fool, you have to stop talking. They have stopped your vision.
  • A leader has to have a different conversation at this point. You have to talk about the pattern.
  • Leaders ask: how can I talk to you where you will understand?
  • That is followed up by asking what we will do if that does not work. What will the consequences be?
  • Fools do not change when truth comes to them that they can get rid of. They only change when truth comes to them that camps out with them.
  • The leadership challenge with the fool is that you limit your exposure, give consequences, give a clear choice, follow through
There is great hope for fools. If we can lead them right, we can redeem their giftedness. This takes guts
Evil
  • These people have destruction in their heart. They want to inflict pain.
  • These people can only be dealt with with lawyers, guns and money.
  • Stay far from these people.
Don’t let someone else’s character problem stop you from your vision.

The Global Leadership Summit: Bill Hybels

August 12, 2011 in leadership with 0 Comments

  • If you watch one episode of the evening news, you know our world is broken.
  • The fixes that are going to be required are not going to be easy assignments. They will not be short-term. They don’t come with great benefits.
  • God is looking for leaders to stand up and say they are looking for the tough assignments.
  • Part of the problem with leaders is that they can see into the future a little bit.
  • This world is not going to get fixed unless leaders are available for tough assignments.
  • What is holding you back from the tough assignments?

The Global Leadership Summit: Mama Maggie Gobran

August 12, 2011 in leadership with 0 Comments

  • We don’t choose where to be born, but we do choose whether to be sinners or saints.
  • If you want to be a hero, do what God wants you to do.
  • To be elegant comes from the inside, and comes from love. To love means to give, and to give until it hurts.
  • When I touch a poor child, I’m touching Jesus. When I listen to a poor child, I listen to Jesus’ heart for humanity.
  • To be in silence is to be fully inside yourself. It is hard.
  • In silence, you leave many to be with the one.

The Global Leadership Summit: Seth Godin

August 11, 2011 in leadership with 0 Comments

  • If we want to do work that matters, we need to do it with others.
  •  Those who own the means of production make the rules.
  • If you own the means of production, why are you holding back?
  • There is no map for being an artist.
  • If I could tell you how to do it, it would not be art anymore.
  • The thing with the race to the bottom is that you might win.
  • Don’t wait to be picked. Pick yourself. If you want to do something, do it.
  • It is impossible to do art and always succeed. That is what makes it art.
  • We are constantly looking for a reason, and excuse not to do our art.
  • How many people would kill for your influence, you ability to do art, your platform.

The Global Leadership Summit: Cory Booker

August 11, 2011 in leadership with 0 Comments

  • Don’t let the world tell you who you are. Don’t settle, rise!
  • Everyone is born an original.  Sadly, most die copies.  ~Abe Lincoln
  • Your attitude about the world says nothing about the world, it speaks to your character.
  • We need to be the change we want to see in the world
  • We can talk about the world all we want, we can focus on the evil and put the blame on others; but change starts with one. We can be the one.
This was an amazing talk! You need to go and download it if you can!

The Global Leadership Summit: Len Schlesinger

August 11, 2011 in leadership with 0 Comments

Believe in a future by creating it first

  • You cannot ride one business model through your career.  You will have to reinvent yourself 3-5 times during your career.
  • If you cannot predict the future, create it!
  • Stop worrying about what you want to do and decide what you need to do next.
  • Know what you want, do what you can do now, be alert to what you are getting, take steps with the means that you have, bring other people with you, remain flexible.

The Global Leadership Summit: Bill Hybels

August 11, 2011 in Conference, leadership with 0 Comments

5 Questions to answer:

1. What is your leadership challenge at work?

  • Under challenged, Appropriately challenged, Dangerously over challenged
  • At what level do you do your best work? Just a little above the appropriately challenged level.

Knowing that leaders do there best work just above the appropriately challenged level:

  • If you are under challenged, do what you have to do to bring yourself up
  • If you are dangerously over challenged, you have to do something quickly to fix that

What is the challenge level of your associates?

  • Good leaders will leave if they are under challenged

What is the challenge level of the organization?

2. What is your plan for dealing with challenging people in your organization?

  • If you lost 50% of your revenue, who would you keep/say goodbye to?

The key to an organizations future is their ability to attract and keep fantastic people. The same is true on the other end of the spectrum; an organizations future also depends on letting people go that need to be let go.

  • How long do you let someone with a bad attitude remain?  30 days max, it is addressed as soon as you see a pattern develop
  • How long do you keep someone who is under performing? 3 months. Put on a performance plan and address as soon as you see the pattern develop
  • How long do you allow someone to remain when the organization outgrows that leaders capacity? These are tough calls to make. This almost always leads to heartbreak. 6-12 months are given to develop or redeploy. If they have to leave, you should honor them for their service and give them a generous severance.

If you don’t deal with people that have a bad attitude, you will discourage and defeat your fantastic people. You have to deal with challenging people quickly.

Challenging people, deep down, are not happy people. When you have these tough conversations many times they will come back and thank you later.

3. Are you naming, facing and resolving the problems that exist in your organization?

  • Real leaders face and resolve the problems. It builds trust in the organization.

Ideas and programs will only last so long. Everything has a life cycle. The things that are booming and that have momentum now will eventually decorate and tank, becoming a problem that will need to be faced. They key is to reinvent before something tanks.

4. When is the last time you re-examined the core of what your organization is all about?

  • Great leaders ask are we all about?
  • The Bible is clear, the church is in the life-changing business.

5. Have you had your leadership bell rung recently?

  • Leaders rarely learn anything new without having their world rocked or their bell rung.
  • It is easier to make excuses than to create solutions to move your organization from here to there.
  • Keep moving things forward. The way you end is the way you are remembered.

AND…

November 4, 2010 in church philosophy and methods, Conference, leadership with 0 Comments

Missional?  Attractional?  Either or?  Both?  That is what we are discussing the next two days at Granger Community Church and the AND conference.  Hope to share some of the thoughts as we go!

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