His focus – how to handle your money God’s way. Take back the marketplace and win it for Christ. Business people can be evangelists with our excellence so people will want to know who we know. How do you run your business God’s way? WWJD style? Leadership matters – core philosophies. People Matter. Don’t take that as read. In the middle of a transactional culture you have to be relational. Your ability to relate to others matters massively. Never see people as units. You need to hear their stories. Everyone has a story. STOP and go relational. Value the person. Doesn’t mean I’m a pushover or have no boundaries. Jewish rabbis teach – your opportunities come through people. An incredible team and a culture of Excellence matters. Christians have to shine – because we’re not expected to. Excellence isn’t just an option. If you’re going to put a fish on the car you’d better drive it right. Team selection? You won’t win the Derby with a donkey. You have to get a thoroughbred. If you put someone in the wrong […]
Day: 6 October 2011
Jim Collins – GREAT BY CHOICE. Catalyst 2011
Anyone who’s a student of Leadership will be familiar with Collins. In this talk he gave us a synopsis of his new book – GREAT BY CHOICE. Buying it was a no brainer. Good is the enemy of Great. Systematically, what separates the two? He takes an empirical approach to that. Compare those that became great, with those that didn’t – in the same field and circumstance. Greatness is not about circumstance but discipline and choice. Rate the world you’re in, 1 to 10. 1= Nothing can hurt you, it’s moving slow. Stable. 10 – There are consequences to messing up, things can hurt you, turbulent. Question – why do some organisations and leaders THRIVE in the face of change and still perform very well? You get Great by Choice. The answer is not what happens to you, but the choices and actions that separate some from others. What have they found? LIFE IS PEOPLE. It all begins with people. As he said in Good to Great – you need to ask Who should be on the bus, then get […]
Andy Stanley: DO FOR ONE – Catalyst 2011
Be Present. The more successful you are, the less accessible you’ll become. This is not good or bad, it’s just true. The more people become part of what you’re doing, the less available to everyone you’ll end up. But we think, ‘I don’t want that. My door will be wide open…’ But if we refuse this truth, the more you’ll burn out by trying to be accessible to everyone. You’ll do life spreading yourself razor thin, not accessible to those you’re with really anyway. Distracted. The hard thing is, we come into ministry because we’re all about people. OR we may use our success as an excuse to be more inaccessible than necessary. People will come up in your own church and say, ‘I know you’re busy, but…’ You’ll hide form them. Unawareness is bliss! Because the more people’s needs and problems you’re aware of, the more you’ll know there’s no 15 minute solutions. That will wear you out. The more need we’re bombarded with, the less able to handle it we feel. So much cancer, so much debts and […]