GLS: Closing Session By Bill Hybels

·      Matthew 16:18  “I will build my church and the gates of hell with not prevail against it!”

·      “The local church is the hope of the world.”

o   For the first 18 years of my life the church was hopeless. 

o   In college is started to become hopeful for the church.

§  Vision moves us forward.

§  People live for vision and people die for it!

§  The local church is the hope of the world.

·      Jesus Christ is the only one that can deeply impact and change the heart of man. 

·      Will the local church, the hope of the world be able to sustain itself until the end of time?

o   Confidence is in Christ. He is the builder of church.

o   This is the only thing that God is doing!  He is building the church! 

o   Will you join the savior of the world in helping Him build the local church?

o   How could you do anything else when God taps you on the shoulder! 

o   Every follow of Jesus should wake up excited about serving the church!  It is the hope of the world.

GLS: Getting to Yes by William Ury

·      How much of your time is spent on negotiation or handling conflict?

·      The single most important barrier to getting what you want is you!

o   Go to the balcony. Look at your conflict from a different perspective. 

o   Elevate and see the larger picture.

o   One of the greatest powers of negotiation is the power not to react!

·      Focus on the underling needs.

·      People:  Separate the people from the problem.

o   Be soft on the people and hard on the problem.

§  The harder you will need to be on problem the softer you need to be on the person!

§  Try to put yourself on the same side of the table focused on the problem.

·      Interests:  focus on interests not the positions.

o   What is their intent?  Why do you want this position?

·      Options:  Develop multiple solutions to solving the problem.

o   Create solutions based upon interests. 

·      Criteria:  Use standards that are based on fairness not will!

o   Be objective and be fair.  What is best for the whole?

o   BTNA:  Best Alternative to Negotiated Alternative.

§  What is your back up?  You should have one.

§  This is your anchor. 

GLS: The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni

·      People need to be reminded more than instructed.  Life is simple we need to remember things!

·      Organization health is the single greatest competitive advantage.  It is free but it is largely untapped in many organizations.

o   Why?  Many leaders think it is beneath them! They cannot measure it!

·      Two requirements for success:

o   Smart:  to work well strategically.  Half the equations but 98% of attention. Tech, Marketing etc. 

o   Healthy:  Low turnover, high moral, minimal confusion, and politics.

§  Health is the multiplier of your intelligence.

·      How do we make our organizations healthy?

o   1.  Build a Cohesive Leadership Team

§  5 dysfunctions of a team.

o   2.  Create clarity

§  6 critical questions:

·      Why do we exist?

·      How do we behave?

·      What do we do?

·      How will we succeed?

o   What is our strategy?

§  Honor your 3 anchor values!        

·      What is more important, right now?

·      Who must do what?

o   3.  Over communicate Clarity

o   4.  Reinforce Clarity

§  With human systems.

·      Build a Healthy Organization!

GLS: The Strongest Link by Craig Groeschel

·      There are some tensions between the generations today. 

·      There is not enough investing in next generations in the church today.

o   The Older Generation:  Don’t resent, fear, or judge the next generation.  Invest in them.  Believe in them.  They need you!

§  You can still make a difference.  God values maturity.  You best days are before when you take the best that God has taught you and invest it in others!

§  If you are not dead you are not done!

§  If you delegate tasks you create followers.  If you delegate authority to create leaders.

§  Embrace the season that you are in.  Be yourself.

§  You can be a spiritual father to those who come behind you! Psalm 71:18

o   The Younger Generation:  You need older generation more than you know!  Don’t be Entitled.

§  You overestimate what you can do in the short run but underestimate what you can do in the long run.

§  Honor publicly will earn you influence privately. 

§  One of the reasons we do not honor each other is because we have forgotten how to honor God.

§  Honor builds up!

§  Respect is earned buy honor is given.

§  If you ever want to be over you have to live under with integrity. 

·      How can we learn from one another?

o   Create ongoing feedback loops.

o   Create specific mentoring moments.

§  Learn how other great leaders think.

o   Create opportunities for significant leadership development.

§  Give others the platform.

GLS: Great By Choice by Jim Collins

·      Why do some enterprises thrive in chaos and others do not?  Why do some leaders thrive in chaos and others fail?

·      Leadership behavior matters!

o   The x factor is humility combined with will!

·      Fanatic Discipline

o   20-mile march everyday no matter what the challenge.

o   Don’t over expose! Steward your energy.

§  Manage yourself in good times so you will be OK in bad times! 

o   What is your 20-mile march?  What is your daily realistic stretch? Personal and Professional?

o   10x Leaders show extreme consistency in values, goals, and performance.

o   The signature of average is chronic inconstantly.

·      Empirical Creativity

o   Fire small bullets before firing a cannon ball to make sure you are on target!

o   Too many leaders waste energy firing undisciplined shots!

o   Blend creativity and discipline!

o   Creativity is natural discipline is not!

o   You need to remove the stuff that is in the way of your creativity.

·      Productive Paranoia

o   Prepare for the troubled times! 

o   How do you manage in blessed times so you can be strong when people most need you!

SPAC Recipe

·      Specific:  Know what you are good at.  Focus on this!  Be efficient. 

·      Preserve the Core: Values.  Stimulate progress change practices.

What is the role of luck?

·      Luck: You did not cause it.  It has a consequence.  It was a surprise!

·      Are 10x leaders lucky?

o   The great winners were not luckier than others. It is what they did with great events that made them win!

o   The difference is what you do with the good events.  Failing leaders squander the good events and are not prepared for the bad ones!

o   What is your return on good and bad events?

§  How do you use a bad event as a defining moment?  How do you make the most of a great moment?

·      Greatness is a result of conscious choice and discipline.

Great Organizations

·      Have superior performance.

·      If they leave would be missed.

They withstand the change of great

GLS: No Higher Honor: A Life of Leadership by Condoleezza Rice

·      We are living in a challenging time.

·      3 Great Shocks

o   9-11 Physical security

o   Rescission: Financial security

o   Arab Spring:  anger is a terrible way to create political reform.

·      We are seeing universal freedom. 

o   Every person wants to be free!

·      Democracy is only as strong as its weakest link.

o   If the strong exploit the week democracy will not work.

·      Every life is worthy before the law and God.

o   How can it be that anyone is more worthy than someone else?

·      The church when it goes out into the world needs to act like every life matters!

o   The church must act with compassion!  Government cannot do this!

o   The best thing you can do for a person is give them control of their own future. 

·      If you are fortunate enough to lead in challenging times:

o   Look at the opportunity.

o   Help others become leaders!

·      Most important characteristic quality of a leader is optimism!

·      It is a privilege to struggle.

o   When you are driven to you knees you find a deeper strength!

o   There were times in the past when others were in struggle.  It was the theater for their greatest moment!

·      Often things that at one time seem impossible look inevitable in hindsight!