Gary Hamel notes from Dave Fergusson

I’m following Dave Fergusson now too and these are his notes on Gary Hamel’s talk at Willow’s Leadership Summit. Blue emphasis is mine…

IMPERATIVES FOR CREATING CHANGE

1. Overcome the temptation to take refuge in denial.

• Overcoming denial usually requires that we go through four steps: 1. Dismiss 2. Rationalize 3. Mitigate 4. Confront.
• “Microsoft is only two years from being irrelevant” – Bill Gates

2. Generate dozens of new possibilities

• We are in too big of a hurry to find a solution; we need to first spend time thinking through all the crazy possibilities.

3. Deconstruct what you are already doing.

• Most churches end up doing the same stuff because they read the same books and use the same consultants.  We need to reconsider everything..spare the gospel.  Why can’t a sermon be created though an open-source conversation?  Why can’t we bring laptops into the sanctuary to take notes?  Why is the sermon more of a lecture and not a discussion?  Why…
  
• Mental models of leadership teams are increasingly irrelevant but at the same time their power is increasing.
• Is the challenge finding great leaders OR leveraging the people that God has sent us?
• Young people want to work for corporations that functions more like the web where everyone has a voice and is judged by what they produce.

Jesus is the answer and He is the hope for humanity.  And the church is God’s plan A for delivering that message.  There is no plan B!

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