Leadership Summit 2 of 11
Over the next ten blogs I will be re-posting quotes from the Leadership Summit at Willow Creek that happened last week. Bill Hybels heads up this conference and brings in some of the most influential leaders in the country each year to be a part of the process. I am simply re-posting what Tony Morgan has on his blog www.tonymorganlive.com, these are not my quotes or comments. These quotes may or may not apply to you or the position you may hold but if you can benefit from any of the truths that are written than run with it.
Leadership Summit: Gary Hamel
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“Are you changing as fast as the world around you?”
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“Is the Gospel failing us or our institutions?”
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“Our problem is inertia.”
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“If your church is growing at the moment, you still need to be humble.”
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“You have to overcome the temptation to take refuge in denial.”
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“When an organization misses the future, it’s not because it was unknown–it was because it’s inpalatable.”
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“Face the facts. Question your practices.”
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“Most of what we’re doing today is going to be rendered irrelevant in the future.”
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“Listen to the renegades.”
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“Do we welcome dissent, or do we stifle it?”
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“You have to generate more strategic options.”
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“A lot of organizations get stuck in old models. We clutch at the familiar.”
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Check out Dell IdeaStorm for encouraging customers to provide new ideas.
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Here’s the link: www.ideastorm.com
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“You’re in a race to uncover your own orthodoxy.”
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“What hasn’t changed for 3 or 4 or 5 years?”
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“In any industry, strategies start to converge. What are you doing the same as everyone else?”
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“Why can’t we bring our laptops to church to take notes? It happens in every college campus.” [AMEN!]
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“When everything in the world is changing, we have to learn how to be contrarians.”
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“Maybe we need to be praying for Abraham’s courage here.”
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Great line here. Missed the exact words. Gary was talking about how dangerous it is to use a autocratic-style of leadership in these days. In other words, top-down leadership won’t work in the long-term.
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“We can’t rely on super-humans at the top.”
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“Our organizations aren’t built to be adaptable.”
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“The Facebook generation doesn’t want to work for a Fortune 500 company, and I’m not sure they want to attend a church that feels like one.”
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“We are not going to fundamentally change lives until we fundamentally change our churches.”
