global leadership summit 2012: bill hybels closing session

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global leadership summit 2012: bill hybels closing session

Friday, August 17, 2012

Bill Hybels opened the Global Leadership Summit. Hybels is the founder and Senior Pastor of Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, IL. He also the founded The Global Leadership Summit, now in over 200 U.S. sites and over 260 cities worldwide including 85 countries.

Giving people words and phrases to express your values & culture is about 50% of building that culture
…it could happen, and our world is screwed up enough that it needs to happen…
Everyone wins, when a leader gets better
Matt. 16:18 I will build my church & the gates of hell will not stand against it
Who is building the church, He is, and He will not allow it to be easily defeated
Have you ever been to a church that was so weak and sick that you wanted to protect people from coming to it so they wouldn’t get an incorrect view of what God was like?
It’s one thing to see a vision it’s another to be seized by one
A vision is a picture of the future that produces passion in people
Will the local church, the hope of the world, be able to sustain itself until the end of time?
The church will outlive and outlast every other dynasty and empire because of who is building and sustaining it
This is the only thing that Jesus is doing between now and the end of time
The core of leadership is trust
By the level of trust we have, we can lead people from here to there. When we lose trust it can all come to a grinding halt.

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global leadership summit 2012: mario vega

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Mario Vega is the Senior Pastor of Misión Cristiana Elim in El Salvador one of the world’s largest churches with 73,000 attendees. These are my notes from the talk he gave at The Summit this year:

God is not interested in offerings or sacrifice but obedience
There are defining moments in the life of a man that define his character
When a person participates in dishonest behavior it reveals the character of the heart, and it is usually just the tip of the iceberg
Those who allow themselves the liberty of moral failure open the door for further failure in the future
The moral failure of a leader will challenge the integrity of others as well
The steps that Samuel processed when he realized the fact that his friend Saul was no longer going to be king: 1. Denial 2. Depression 3. Acceptance 4. Action
Integrity lost cannot be fully restored
Leaders are defined by the ongoing decisions that they make
Every right decision a leader makes will strengthen his influence

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global leadership summit 2012: geoffrey canada

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Geoffrey Canada is a social activist and educator. Since 1990, Canada has been president and CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone in Harlem, New York

We usually think in terms of, “What is the shortest amount of time and the least amount of money we can invest to make a permanent change?”
There is no time in a child’s life that you can’t be a great parent
You can’t take a vacation from parenting
It’s not exceptional to meet people’s needs it’s exceptional that people don’t think they can or should do it
One of the most difficult things you can do is fail and fail publicly
Sometimes not taking the money from a donor is the smartest thing you can do, particularly when the gift is given with the hope of it being given to something that will take you off mission
The day I walked into my job there was a succession plan
There is no plan for the company to go worse upon my departure than when I am here.
If you love your organization then you have to leave when it is going up so that way when the next person comes in they don’t come in at a bad time getting wrongly compared to you.
It’s easy to have faith when everything is going great; the real test of faith is when you’re faced with something that your faith in God is the only thing that will keep you going

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global leadership summit 2012: patrick lencioni

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

These are the latest in the series of notes I’m posting from the Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit. Hope these have been helpful to everyone. In this session Patrick Lencioni, founder and president of The Table Groupand author of 10 best selling books, killed it talking about organizational health! Enjoy the notes.

People need to be reminded more than they need to be instructed via Samuel Jonson
The single greatest opportunity for improvement and competitive advantage is free, accessible, and untapped. It is building a healthy organization.
What does it take to be a great company?
- #1 Be Smart: finance, strategy, marketing, etc. this is what gets most of the attention because it’s easiest
- #2 Healthy organization: What does a healthy organization look like? Minimal politics and confusion, high degrees of moral, low turnover among the best people, high productivity
There is a big difference between simple and difficult
It is impossible in this day and age to build a competitive advantage based on knowledge. But you can build a competitive advantage by building a healthy organization. Every team has a enough experience, talent, and industry knowledge…what they don’t have is a healthy organization.

Building a healthy organization

#1 Build a Cohesive Leadership Team:
- If a leader on the team can’t be vulnerable first he won’t have a culture of vulnerability and trust on his team
#2 Create Clarity:
- 6 questions to align around:
- Why do we exist? When you know your purpose it informs and guides decision making
- How do we behave? A core value is something you’re willing to get punished for. Permission to play values are minimum standards for qualifying to be on the team. It’s not unchristian to reject an applicant because they don’t fit your culture
- What do we do? Core business. Great organizations define what the 2 or 3 things are that drive them and then they’re relentless about them.
- What’s the most important thing for us to do right now?
- How will we succeed? Strategy should be accessible to everyone. Strategy is the myriad of decisions that you make which differentiates you between you and your competitors. Effective strategies make decisions easy and empower your teams to make decisions that reflect and build your culture and values
- Who around this table needs to do what next?
#3 Over-Communicate Clarity:
- People have to hear it 7 times before they remember it.
- Great leaders never get tired of repeating themselves.
- If you’re people can’t do a good impression of you when you’re not around then you’re not saying it enough
#4 Reinforce Clarity:
- If your company tries to be everything to everyone it will end up becoming nothing to no one