Live Blog From The 2014 Global Leadership Summit – 59 Leadership Quotes From Bill Hybels

In an effort to add maximum value to pastors and church leaders, INJOY Stewardship Solutions has dispatched me to attend the Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit.  During the next two days, I will be bringing some of the top leadership lessons from the incredible faculty the WCA has assembled.

As is its custom, Willow Creek Community Church Founder and Senior Pastor Bill Hybels opened the Summit speaking on hard-fought leadership lessons.  The following are 59 leadership quotes and lessons from this incredible session.

Introduction

• When God wants to do a great work in the world, it almost always starts in the heart of one person…we call these people leaders.

Bill Hybels

1. Everything that matters in this world rises and falls on leadership.
2. World peace rises and falls on leadership.
3. Building prevailing churches, enduring business and governments rises and falls on leadership.
4. One of the supreme values of the Leadership Summit is humility.
5. Armed with enough humility, pastors can learn from business leaders. Business leaders can learn from pastors.
6. Every decision you make as a leader has a direct impact on the emotion, psyche and spirit of those you lead.
7. Leaders are visionaries. We can’t help ourselves….We paint pictures that produce passion in other people.
8. Often, leaders with the highest level of passion for the vision have the lowest level of awareness of the spirit the team he/she has assembled to achieve that vision.
9. A grunt is someone who works long hours, is not appreciated, and expendable.
10. What God treasures most in this world is people.
11. Don’t make your people pay because you’re so fired up about the vision.
12. Had I simply delegated culture to the HR Department, it would have been doomed from the start.
13. Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be. Senior pastors, CEOs, there is no place to hide.
14. People join organizations. They leave managers.
15. You will never meet your culture’s full vitality potential, until those who lead people get better.
16. Every single worker secretly wants to know at the end of the day how they are doing.
17. The kindest form of management is the truth. – Jack Welch
18. Start. Stop. Continue.
19. 3M. Start the meeting by clarifying what you’re trying to Move ahead. If it’s not moving, Modify the plan. Motivate the people before the meeting ends.
20. I try to motivate people so they levitate out of my office.
21. Everybody wins when a leader gets better.
22. What if we look at conflict as a way to strengthen a relationship?
23. In the average Christian organization, only 54% of the employees are truly engaged in their work. In the U.S. corporate world only 30% of the employees are engaged in their work. Internationally, it’s half that.
24. Everyday when I drive on this campus, my heart rate increases.
25. Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.
26. Short-term task force allows you to test a young emerging leader.
27. Resourcefulness is the most important weapons in a leader’s arsenal. We lead in chaotic environments and there is not a roadmap at their level.
28. Before you put any emerging leader in a senior role you must ascertain what they are going to do when they don’t know what to do.
29. In today’s complex world, no senior leader can know enough to handle what will be thrown at them.
30. When is the last time you have taken the time to assign an emerging leader a Pass/Fail task?
31. Hirelings don’t give a rip about your sheep. They have no intentions of staying long-term…He will risk nothing for the sake of your sheep.
32. Owners actually care about the sheep and have a long-term view…They will lay down their life for the sheep.
33. Find and develop leaders with a legacy mindset.
34. The average tenure for a Fortune 500 CEO is 4.5 years.
35. Prevailing churches cannot be built on the shoulders of hirelings with short-term mindsets. They just don’t care enough. They won’t be around long enough to build something lasting.
36. Legacy leaders are the only ones willing to pay the price to change culture because they’re going to live in it.
37. Legacy leaders are working for the grander vision.
38. Legacy leaders are the ones who leave something beautiful behind when their hourglass is empty.
39. Forgiven much. Worship much.
40. Right now several hundred are watching this from our newest satellite location – the Louisiana State Prison.
41. I’ve never seen a single leader drift into being a legacy leader.
42. Please don’t go to your grave without tasting a life that is truly life.
43. Have you given any real thought to what your legacy will be?
44. Legacy making does come with the price tag. The grander the vision, the greater the price tag.
45. Don’t be surprised when grand visions get complicated or costly.
46. It’s hard to hear God at Mach 2.
47. Radio for help. Humble yourself. Admit this rough patch requires outside assistance.
48. You might be one prayer away from a rescue.

5 Ways To Develop Young Leaders

1. High challenge roles
2. Short term task force
3. Real time feedback
4. Coaching and mentoring
5. Classroom Teaching

5 Ways To Use A Short-Term Task Force

1. Success of failure must be possible.
2. The merging leader must take full charge.
3. Must work with a wide variety of people.
4. Must involve real pressures and deadlines.
5. Must be evaluated by a senior leader.

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