Thanks to Injoy Stewardship Solutions (ISS), I am attending the WCA Global Leadership Summit for the next two days. ISS has a deep passion for church leaders and I am so glad they invest in its employees so we can carry out that mission.
Bill Hybels just delivered an incredible message on sowing more seed, energy bursts, and succession planning. The following are his life-changing comments:
- “The first move of a great leader is to clarify vision and values.”
- “Great leaders always go the extra mile to ensure success because the vision is worth it.”
- “Everyone wins when a leader gets better.”
- “I believe everyone’s life would be better if God were at the center of it.”
- “Whether you like it or not, your whole organization takes its seed sowing guidance from you.”
- “One of the fundamental requirements of a leader is to stay curious. Stay courageous. Always experiment.”
- “Incessant tinkerers. People who wake up every day figuring out how to sow more seeds.”
- “Nothing would please Heaven more than to say, “I ought to get better too.”
- “Trees are worth it. Transformed lives and eternities are worth it.”
- “You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.’
- “Many leaders incorrectly assume the most important leadership asset is their time…The most valuable asset is their energy and their ability to energize people.”
- “What would be the greatest half-dozen contributions that I could make to the church that You and IÂ deeply love?”
- “I can’t sprint for six months. But I can sprint for six weeks.”
- “This was the greatest breakthrough of my leadership life – Putting energy bursts against overwhelming odds to see God do amazing things.”
- “All the senior leaders work by 6X6 initiatives.”
- “God didn’t make you a leader to respond to stuff all day. He made you a leader to move stuff ahead.”
- “Your leadership matters more than you think it does.”
- “I don’t like the term Mega-church.”
- “Hey Bill, do you ever see yourself dying? Do you see yourself being the senior pastor of Willow to the day you die?” – Willow elder and friend of Bill’s named Mike.
- “These conversations can’t be rushed.” – On Succession Planning
- “Board members have to understand how deep feelings run in the hearts of senior pastors and founding pastors.”
- “Don’t assign people (to speak to the pastor on succession planning) who have low emotional intelligence.”
- “Senior pastors…make sure your greatest legacy is how it’s led after you leave it.”
- “God doesn’t make you a leader to preside over something…He makes you a leader to move people from an unacceptable reality to a preferred future.”
- “Make the case that you can’t stay here.”
- “Visions are extremely vulnerable in the middle (of the journey).”
- “God protected during this area (middle part of his ministry). He just carried me.”
- “There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.”
- “What a privilege it is to be a leader.”
- “Only a very small percentage of the human race get to lead.”
- “Thank you God that you placed me in a family so I could watch Howard Hybels.”
- “Thanks God. One day You entrusted me with a vision to start a church in a movie theater for people who are far from God.”
- “We leaders get to dream dreams and see them become reality by the power of God.”
- “The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being a spectator.”
- “Enjoy every single day you get to lead because it will be over in a blink.”
Getting ready for Condoleeza Rice and Jim Collins.
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