Over the next three days I have been dispatched by INJOY Stewardship Solutions to provide live-blogging the ReThink Leadership and Orange Conference. This has traditionally been one of my go-to events each year. I can’t wait for this year’s content and the opportunity to share it with you.
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Now on to the conference content:
ReThink Leadership’s first breakout speaker of the day was Brad Lomenick. Brad is one of my favorite leaders in the world. Brad has been Executive Producing events and conferences for the past 20 years, including Catalyst Conferences, Catalyst One Days, The Maximum Impact Simulcast, and a number of other leadership experiences, small gatherings, and strategic events. He’s done it all – writing, speaking, creating, and is simply the greatest Christian networker I have ever met.
The following are 21 Must-Read Leadership Quotes from his session on current top leadership trends:
- “Everyone is wanting to push us to the fringes. It’s the middle where problems get solved. The middle is hard because you get kicked from both sides.”
- “We feel guilty when we’re asked to slow down.”
- “The Great Resignation. Half of you are getting notifications about a new job opportunity. We are in a new era of free agency.”
- “What’s going to keep people is culture.”
- “If we’re not building culture, people are going to leave. The average 25-year-old will have 20 different assignments over 40 years.”
- “The future of work is movie studios…. They’re all contractors.”
- “Instead of having 30 full-time employees, you will have 3 with 40 contractors.”
- “Allow younger leaders to have the permission to not keep secret their other opportunities.”
- “We know this won’t be your only job. We just want it to be your best job.” – Andy Stanley
- “We don’t endure feedback, we embrace it.” – Craig Groeschel
- “Mergers and Acquisitions. Who cares at the end of the day what we call it.”
- “Home is the new frontier. Everyone is fighting over getting into the last mile and into every home in America.”
- “COVID accelerated it. The home is where you do life.”
- “Releasing entrepreneurs. Churches who will have influence in the future will be where I can get trained to be a better Christian and do all pieces of life.”
- “The University Experience. The raising up of leaders in the house.”
- “People who were going to Catalyst began going to smaller conferences because they wanted local expertise.”
- “Personal connection will drive the way we want to do life. Everyone is starving for some type of community.”
- “Everything being created is personalized to one person. The problem is this will not scale.”
- “Everyone wants to feel they have access to you. What you do has to feel personal.”
- “Content. Conversation. Connection. We spend most of our time on content. Culture wants us to spend our time on anything other than content.”
- “If you’re only thinking about two of the five senses, you need to think again about what you’re creating. We just focus on sight and sound.”
Brad Lomenick will simply as insightful a leader as you will ever meet. What a great session! I can’t wait for the afternoon speakers.
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