Global Leadership Summit 2013: Andy Stanley

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Global Leadership Summit 2013: Andy Stanley

Thursday, August 15, 2013

I hope the notes I’ve been posting this week have been helpful! The closing session of the 2013 Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit was entrusted to Andy Stanley of North Point Ministries, and he delivered! If you haven’t ordered it already, I’d encourage you to get your hands on a copy of his newest book Deep & Wide.

Jesus didn’t predict a place (upon this rock I will build my church), he predicted a people…a movement.
Jesus has built a movement on the back of an extraordinary statement that “He is the Christ, the Son of the Living God.”
How could this have possibly worked?
Because Jesus made a promise and He has been at the epicenter of the local church for more than 2,000 years and Jesus has been, and will continue to build the local church and no body’s death is going to stop it…not even His own.
The reason it’s important to ask “How this thing got started?” is because in a majority of the world even in churches all across America it needs to start over.
The message was “You killed Him, God brought Him back to life…now say you’re sorry.”
The central teaching of the church was not we believe something is true. It was we believe something has happened. All religions think they have the truth. The first century church believed something had happened.
The movement stopped moving…the gathering stopped growing…when they got just beyond the reach of the persecution…it stopped.
Then God went and got a new kind of leader…Saul of Tarsus…who became the Apostle Paul.
Whether you believe or not, whether you corporate or not…Jesus is going to build His church.
James, the brother of Jesus, may be our greatest argument for the deity of Jesus. Because what would your brother have to do to convince you that He is the Savior of the world?
If a guy can predict his death and his resurrection I am with him.
You may do more profitable things with your life but you’ll never do anything more meaningful with your life than build the local church because it is the work that Jesus has been doing for 2,000 years.

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Global Leadership Summit 2013: Dr. Henry Cloud

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Leadership expert, clinical psychologist, and best selling author Dr. Henry Cloud spoke on “Reversing the Death Spiral of a Leader.” Check out his newest book Boundaries for Leaders.

Leaders take ownership, face the brutal facts, and deal with big problems.
The most difficult thing for a leader to be in charge of is himself/herself.
Some leaders get results and some don’t. Leaders who get results will eventually hit a point where they begin to spiral down…what happens next matters.
Leaders who get through spirals think, behave and feel differently than those who spiral out.
If you’ve got a choice between those who can and don’t think they can, and those who can’t and think they can…those who think they can will win every time.
The #1 factor of getting between here and there is believing that it can happen.
All leaders believe it can happen when they begin. But eventually circumstance arise and they realize that they’re out of control of their circumstances.
Learned helplessness: you were designed by God to be in a cause & effect universe A+B=C. When you are out of control of things that begin to affect you something happens…
The 3 P’s:
- Personal: Why didn’t that work? I’m no good. I can’t do it. Every leader does stuff that doesn’t work in moving from here to there. The ones that don’t spiral don’t take it personal. When leaders take it personal and can’t have control of results, they spiral out of control.
- Pervasive: it’s not just that one person, it’s everyone. My whole life sucks. Everything becomes bad.
- Permanent: It’ll always be this way, it’s never going to change,
There’s a way out.
Science and the Bible always agree in a place called reality. If they’re not agreeing you’ve got wacky science or goofy Christians and there’s no shortage of either.
Reversing the 3 P’s:
- #1 Log and dispute your negative thoughts
- #2 Take back control by dealing with reality and make a list of what you can control and what you can’t control. Everyone has control of something.
  - Your life is a movie it’s not a scene and every great movie has crisis scenes in it
- #3 You must connect
  - Your brain needs fuel: oxygen, glucose, & relationship
The answer to feeling bad is not feeling good it’s love
In the beginning we sinned, and felt bad and covered up, and started trying to do good, but it doesn’t make us feel better, love does
Find a way!

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Global Leadership Summit 2013: Oscar Muriu

Thursday, August 15, 2013

As day 2 of Leadership Summit began wrapping up Oscar Muriu who serves as the Senior Pastor at Nairobi Chapel in Kenya gave an inspiring talk about multiplying your impact exponentially. Under Oscar’s leadership Nairobi Chapel has grown from a 40 person local church to a network of 30 churches with more than 14,000 in weekly attendance!

5 Convictions of Leadership Development

#1 came from Matt. 9:37-38 The size of your harvest depends on how many leaders you have.
- The problem is not the harvest, it’s the harvesters
- Jesus’s own strategy was to first find his leaders and invest in them not jump into the field

If you don’t have leaders around you, your reach will be limited by how many other leaders you raise up
One of the indicators of great leadership is how many leaders you raise up to continue after you

#2 came from Psalm 71:18 Live for the next generation
- The problem is you are born into your own generation
- When you grow up with, get married with, have kids with, grow old with and die with your generation your vision will die with your generation
- The only way for your vision to live beyond you to instill it in others who will be there after you are gone
- You know you are doing this successfully if the people you’re investing in are at least 20 years younger than yourself
- Each of his leaders is responsible for meeting with 5 younger leaders for a year
#3 came from Numbers 11:10-18 Identify the budding leaders around you and take them to the Lord in prayer
- There were already 70 1^st class leaders sitting there right under Moses’ nose – in 1 day he found 70
- Your “competition” can see them (young leaders) but sometimes you can’t see them because you’re too close to the situation…get help to identify them / remember what you were like
#4 came from Mark 12:30-33 Instill the 5 loves into your budding leaders
- Love the Lord your God with all your heart: character
- Soul: conviction
- Mind: comprehension
- Strength: competence
- Neighbor as yourself: compassion
#5 came from Acts 4:13 Never do ministry alone, always have budding leaders around you
- The secret of Jesus’s investment into his 12 was the scope of time
- To be alone is to waste an opportunity to mentor a young leader
The more harvesters you have, the greater your harvest will be

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Global Leadership Summit 2013: Dr. Brene Brown

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Dr. Brene Brown, Research Professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work did an incredible job speaking about the vulnerability of a leader. Dr. Brown is a groundbreaking researcher into the topics of shame, worthiness, and courage. Check out her book Daring Greatly.

I don’t study leaders, I study people
The 2 irreducible needs of people are #1 Love and #2 Belonging
In the absence of love and belonging there will always be pain and suffering
People have 3 basic needs in life:
- People need to be seen & loved
- To belong
- To be brave
Connection gives meaning to our lives
We have to allow ourselves to be loved.
Love is not something that we give or get but something that we nurture and cultivate between 2 people when they learn to love themselves.
Shame blame, disrespect, betrayal and the withholding of affection damage the root from which love grows.
Growth through connection: love is something that happens through connection with other people, it doesn’t happen alone by ourselves
You don’t have all the answers
We have too many problems, and if everyone who acted like they had all the answers actually had all the answers then why aren’t they solving all the problems?
Leaders aren’t supposed to have all the answers.
What a leader does is model the courage to ask the tough questions.
We can’t give what we don’t have (courage, sense of belonging, permission to ask for grace, etc.)
We cannot give help when we cannot ask for it.
When you feel self judgment for asking for help you are by default always judging when you offer help because you’ve attached judgment to needing help
Judgment shows up by deriving self worth through being a helper
Professing v. Practice
Love is a practice and when you engage in unloving practices your not loving
The space between how we behave and our aspirational values (love), that gap is where we lose people
People can’t navigate the gap between what we say and what we practice
People aren’t looking for perfection they’re looking for people who practice love
What kills love kills organizations
Shame: can only rise to a certain level until people disengage to self protect (humiliating and putting people down / gossip / favoritism / self worth attached to performance)
Blame: the simple discharging of pain and discomfort / the people who score the highest in the ability to hold people accountable have the lowest blame scores
Disrespect: #1 reason people leave jobs = lack of feedback / people feel unseen and disrespected / you can’t be good at feedback if you’re not willing to be vulnerable / it means sitting on the same side of the table as someone and looking at the problem together
Belonging: #1 barrier = fitting in / you have to make space in your organization for people to show up and be seen for who they are not who they could be
Be Brave: we never feel more alive than when we are being brave (love, work, etc)
You can choose courage or you can choose comfort but you can not have both the two are mutually exclusive
If you sign up for courage you are signing up to get your butt kicked
If you’re going to be brave you need: Clarity of values & someone who loves because of your imperfections
If you are not in the arena not getting your butt kicked I am not interested in or open to your feedback
As the world has grown the number of cheap seats has grown

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Global Leadership Summit 2013: Vijay Govindarajan

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Vijay Govindarajan was interviewed by Jim Mellado about getting innovation right. Vijay is ranked #3 on Thinkers 50 and was named one of the Top 10 Business School Professors in the world by Business Week.

Strategy is about leadership in the future therefore if you want to be a leader in the future you need to adapt
Strategy is innovation
How much of your current efforts are in:
- Box 1: mange the present / Competition for the present = efficiency
- Box 2: Selectively forget the past
- Box 3: Create the future / Competition for the future = innovation
Improving the efficiency of you’re system today will only take you so far. You’ve got to innovate and adapt.
Dominate logic bubbles up in the organization (metrics, execution, efficiencies = bring self imposed boundaries)
The Central Problem: How do you preserve and overcome the dominate logic at the same time Create the future while managing the present with efficiency?
Innovation is more than Ideas: It’s not creativity, it’s commercializing and executing the creativity of the ideas.
Innovation is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
Innovation equation: Innovation = idea + leader + team + plan + execution
Innovation Leader: it’s not the responsibility of the just the leader.
Innovation leaders have to be humble, work with the bureaucracy and harness the great capability of the core business not be subversive
Innovation killers:
- Make the false assumption that innovation can happen inside the performance engine (innovation is the opposite of efficiency)
- Not constituting the team and the plan effectively
The innovation team must be dedicated, different and distinct from the performance engine team. But linked to the performance engine team.
The future is now…the future is not about what the organization does in the future, but what you do right now.
If you want a tree 5 years from now you have to plant new seeds today.
To be innovative you are going to have to fight organizational memory while simultaneously depending on it
Conflict is not bad in an organization…if you know how to manage them… you can harness the best ideas
Zero based planning & organizing: test assumptions
Spend a little, learn a lot, because you’ve got a lot of assumptions to test
Innovation is about value for many not value for money. Which means you have to be able to do more with less.