The next three days are three of my favorite days of the year! INJOY Stewardship Solutions has dispatched to attend the Orange and ReThink Leadership Conference in Atlanta, GA. This event contains the most relevant church leadership content I annually receive. It’s just an amazing conference!!
The afternoon’s next speaker was Charles Lee is the Founder and CEO at Ideation, an idea-making company that specializes in helping brands scale their business by effectively integrating their strategic plans into day-to-day implementation. Ideation fills this gap between strategy and implementation with innovative approaches to idea execution, business strategy, brand (re)development and effective storytelling, and creative services that bridge concepts into the real world.
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The following are 23 Leadership Quotes And Lessons from Charles’s session on creativity:
- “Innovation is different than creativity. Innovation is about solving problems.”
- “Strategic actions lead to your actual strategy.”
- “One process of innovation is determine what really needs to be done.”
- “You need to frame the challenge. What problem are you solving as you are innovating?”
- “Focus on quantity and speed more than anything else. Then you will see clusters of ideas bubble to the surface”.
- “When something new launches there is a peak of expectations.”
- “Then there is disillusionment and then steady growth. You’re leading change now.”
- “People generally aren’t excited to change. You must walk them through loss.”
- “The idea we start with is rarely the idea we end up with.”
- “People often need motivation backed up by data.”
- “Knowledge will become more important than motivation.”
- “Leading innovation is a long-term commitment to healthy habits.”
- “Transitioning out of ministry probably saved a lot of things like heath and marriage.”
- “Create space to think, reflect, and diverge.”
- “Go someone larger than yourself.”
- “Find something larger than your problem.”
- “Welcome the unexpected intentionally – intentionally spontaneous moments of creativity.”
- “Make room for conversations that do not have an agenda.”
- “Play well with your teams. Play is essential for innovation. You want to budget for it.”
- “Experience the miracle of writing.”
- “The best way to predict the future is to invent.”
- “Inspiration doesn’t favor with those who sit.”
- “Think big. Start small. Keep moving.”
These two sessions were simply life-changing! Now on to Les McKeown’s breakout session!
Once again, the team at INJOY Stewardship wants you to have a FREE resource. Click HERE or on the image to the left to download your copy of The Millennial Handbook: 16 Ways To Engage Millennials On Stewardship.