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NewSpring Leadership Conference

September 8, 2011 in Church, Leadership with 3 Comments

Today was spent “drinking from the fire hose” at the NewSpring Leadership Conference in South Carolina. It was a phenomenal lineup of guys for a one day conference on leadership, preaching, and all things Jesus. Here are a highlight of the key ideas I took from each speaker:

Perry Noble

5 things we need in the church (based on John 2):

  1. awareness of The presence of Jesus
  2. a desperation for His voice
  3. a realization of what He has given us
  4. a desire to work hard
  5. a desire for people to see Jesus clearly

Life is a gift // Eternity is reality

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Pick Your Analogy

August 31, 2011 in Guest-Blogging, Leadership with 3 Comments

My friends over at Clark just launched a new blog and I wrote a post for them about leading the Worship Arts team at Central. My role is a blast but it is much different than the normal leadership setting.

Click here to read my post and I invite you to leave a comment over there.

After you read my post (and leave a friendly comment on their site), I’d love to start another conversation here.

What analogy would you use for your role in leadership and why? (The question will make sense AFTER you read my post.)

My Top 20 Quotes from the Leadership Summit

August 15, 2011 in Church, Leadership with 6 Comments

Last week Central hosted the Leadership Summit again. It is a great conference with a variety of speakers that challenges your faith, your leadership, and your thinking in general. I’ve now had a few days to process through the fire-hose of content and I wanted to share the top 20 quotes that most stood out to me.

Seth Godin

“If failure is not an option, then neither is success.”

“Too many people are holding onto something while it rots.”

“If it’s worth doing, why aren’t you doing it now?”

 

 

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Decision Points

June 14, 2011 in Leadership, Politics, Reading with 10 Comments

I just finished George W. Bush’s book, Decision Points, and I really enjoyed it. There are 14 chapters that give his back story on why he made key decisions during his presidency. Not that I agreed with everything he says or did but I feel like it is a great premise and I would enjoy if each President wrote a book like this.

I had two dominant reactions to the book:

  1. Being the President of the United States is not a job I would want. The perks don’t seem to match the beatings that you take.
  2. Leadership is harder than most people acknowledge.

Along the lines of reaction #2, there was one quote in the book that really stood out to me. He states:

“That is the nature of the presidency. Perceptions are shaped by the clarity of hindsight. In the moment of decision, you don’t have that advantage.”

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One of the Best Ideas I’ve Ever Had

June 9, 2011 in Humor, Leadership with 14 Comments

This is something that happened recently when a couple of people on the team I lead missed the deadline on a report. This is leadership in action!

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