Summit 2010 - Session 4 - Craig Groeschel interviews Tony Dungy

.:The Mentor Leader

"Stubbornness is a virtue - if you're right."

Being a pastor is similar to being a coach:

• What do you do the rest of the week?
• People watching can call better plays from home (or the pew)
• You can work yourself into the ground.

Known for encouraging a life of balance

• We are going to win, but you can't make football your life.
• You can be passionate about it, but you need to have other interests.

Summit 2010 - Session 3 - Christine Caine (Founder of the A21 Campaign)

.:Leading from a Place of Hope

I'm sorry that it took me so long to respond to God hearing your cry that I didn't come sooner.

The Cry of the World to Us:

If what you believe is true, then where are you? Because we live with no hope.

This is Our Time of Greatest potential

Ephesians 5:14 - wake from the dead, you who sleep.

Jesus Christ is the hope of the world and His church is still the best vehicle to bring that hope to the world.

It is our Job to Lead from a Place of Hope.

If we don't have hope, then how on earth can those without Jesus have any hope at all?

God's Word is true and it Brings Life to Everyone

A confident expectation that God's word is true is how you can keep leading from a place of hope and confidence.

If I think about 27 million slaves on the earth today, I can be overwhelmed because numbers are numbing and desensitizing. I have to think of each of them as an individual.  We must keep breaking it down and put faces to that number.

Summit 2010 - Session 2 with Jim Collins

.:Never, Ever, Give Up


There are 5 Stages of Decline

Step 1 - Hubris Born of Success

It is not success that leads to failure, but outrageous arrogance that inflects suffering on the innocent

Bad decisions taken with good decision are still bad decisions

Three very different leaders

Darwin Smith - Kimberly Clarke

Had a charisma challenge

Funky looking guy, socially inept introvert

"I was just trying to be qualified for the job."

Anne Mulcahy - Xerox

She was magnetic

She did not expect to become CEO, but was determined to fix the company

She was surprised that she became CEO and never sought it

"I was an accidental CEO."

Herb Kelleher - Southwest Airlines

Not normal

Rents a stadium and resolves a trademark dispute with the CEO of other business with an arm wrestling match.

"When the going gets weird, the weird become CEO."

What do these three leaders share in common?

1. It is not about them
2. They never, ever give up
3. They are level 5 leaders

(What separates the Level 5 Leaders from the Level 4 Leaders is humility of a very special type - it is an absolute commitment to do whatever it takes)

Summit 2010 - Session 1 with Bill Hybels

I though I'd give blogging through Willow Creek's Leadership Summit this year.  We'll see if I actually make it through the whole thing.

.:From Here to There

Getting stuck in a leadership slump

Half-a-dozen problems around Willow Creek that he just couldn't seem to resolve and right about this time, his secretary came in and dumped half-a-dozen new leadership books on his desk.

Then he started looking at the books and thinking about the problems and thought, "Maybe I've come to the end of my run."

Then had a wedding to do, and thought, "This will be good, because I know I can do weddings. Not my favorite thing to do, but I know I can do them. I've done hundreds of them."

Went through the whole wedding and everything went fine until the very end when he gave the nod to the vocalist to sing the final song, but she shook her head no.

"I can't even do a wedding right!"

He was in a slump.

Told God, "I need help. I don't know anything."

God told him, "Bill, you've been leading for 3 1/2 decades. You know a few things."

Leaders move people from Here to There.

We are HERE (current reality), but someday we are going to wind up THERE (preferred future) and we will all love life, our church will be stronger and better and more like Jesus.

He used to think the first step was to just describe "There"