{"id":22314,"date":"2018-04-25T13:49:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T17:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/?p=22314"},"modified":"2018-04-25T13:49:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T17:49:47","slug":"live-blog-2018-rethink-leadership-25-leadership-quotes-and-lessons-from-les-mckeown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/2018\/04\/25\/live-blog-2018-rethink-leadership-25-leadership-quotes-and-lessons-from-les-mckeown\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Blog 2018 ReThink Leadership – 25 Leadership Quotes And Lessons From Les McKeown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The next three days are three of my favorite days of the year!<\/strong> \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.injoystewardship.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">INJOY Stewardship Solutions<\/a> has dispatched to attend the <a href=\"http:\/\/theorangeconference.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Orange<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rethinkleadership.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">ReThink Leadership Conference<\/a> in Atlanta, GA. \u00a0This event contains the most relevant church leadership content I annually receive. \u00a0It’s just an amazing conference!!<\/p>\n<p>The afternoon’s first speaker was\u00a0Les McKeown is the CEO of Predictable Success LLC. A renowned speaker, author and advisor on accelerated business growth, his company, Predictable Success, advises CEOs and senior leaders of organizations on how to achieve scalable, sustainable growth. His latest book is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2HVL5m4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><em>“Do Lead: Share Your vision. Inspire Others. Achieve The Impossible.”<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before getting to \u00a0thoughts, the team at INJOY Stewardship wanted you to have a FREE resource. \u00a0Click <a href=\"https:\/\/injoystewardship.lpages.co\/millennials-on-stewardship-ebook-bdol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">HERE<\/a> or on the image below to download your copy of <a href=\"https:\/\/injoystewardship.lpages.co\/millennials-on-stewardship-ebook-bdol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><em><strong>The Millennial Handbook: 16 Ways To Engage Millennials On Stewardship<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. \u00a0Some resources need no explanation!<\/p>\n<p>The following are <strong>25\u00a0Leadership Quotes And Lessons From informative session<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Predictable success is the ability to scale.<\/li>\n<li>Early struggle is the first stage of starting anything. \u00a0Churches start with personified leadership.<\/li>\n<li>At the beginning the church is the senior pastor and a group of enablers.<\/li>\n<li>The next stage is Fun.<\/li>\n<li>The most frequent word in Fun is “Yes!”<\/li>\n<li>We then begin to move to team leadership and titles.<\/li>\n<li>Some senior pastors are visionaries. \u00a0Some are arsonists.<\/li>\n<li>The lack of alignments between the personified leader and the leadership team brings weariness and tears the team apart.<\/li>\n<li>Drop the phrase “Founding Pastor.” \u00a0It’s not helpful.<\/li>\n<li>The development of a mature team as you grow is important.<\/li>\n<li>In Whitewater you start to make mistakes. \u00a0We start to see separation in the leadership team.<\/li>\n<li>You need to build a culture of leadership.<\/li>\n<li>You have to define leadership.<\/li>\n<li>Leadership is any act that gets a group of people closer to an agree upon common goal.<\/li>\n<li>A leadership team is not the sole realm of the leadership team. \u00a0Anyone can commit a random act of leadership.<\/li>\n<li>Leadership is not necessarily a permanent state.<\/li>\n<li>You don’t get transparency unless you set yourself up for it.<\/li>\n<li>You scale when you do less leadership and start shepherding it more.<\/li>\n<li>Leadership is not about people.<\/li>\n<li>Leadership is about getting closer to your common goal.<\/li>\n<li>It’s not your job to make sure everyone feels good.<\/li>\n<li>Leadership does not have to delegate authority.<\/li>\n<li>A leadership team is a machine for decision-making. \u00a0This is how you get out of whitewater.<\/li>\n<li>A decision has two parts – the making of a decision and the implementation of the decision.<\/li>\n<li>Leadership is about slowing down the decision-making process and speeding up the implementation process.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>What an incredible way to start the day! \u00a0Information will be coming fast and furious.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/injoystewardship.lpages.co\/millennials-on-stewardship-ebook-bdol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-22307 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briandoddonleadership.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/fullsizeoutput_22e.jpeg?resize=300%2C250&ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briandoddonleadership.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/fullsizeoutput_22e.jpeg?resize=300%2C250&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briandoddonleadership.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/fullsizeoutput_22e.jpeg?w=301&ssl=1 301w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once again,\u00a0the team at INJOY Stewardship wants you to have a FREE resource. \u00a0Click <a href=\"https:\/\/injoystewardship.lpages.co\/millennials-on-stewardship-ebook-bdol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">HERE<\/a> or on the image to the left to download your copy of <a href=\"https:\/\/injoystewardship.lpages.co\/millennials-on-stewardship-ebook-bdol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><em>The Millennial Handbook: 16 Ways To Engage Millennials On Stewardship<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next three days are three of my favorite days of the year! \u00a0INJOY Stewardship Solutions has dispatched to attend the Orange and ReThink Leadership Conference in Atlanta, GA. \u00a0This event contains the most relevant church leadership content I annually receive. \u00a0It’s just an amazing conference!! 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