The Leadership Summit #4 (Hamel)

Manage Differently NOW

1. Success is a self-correcting phenomenon. Most of what we do today will be rendered irrelevant by the future. (Note: This doesn't apply to our credo beliefs; it's about our methods.) We must embrace humility as a survival strategy.
2. We must overcome the temptation to take refuge in denial. Every organization is successful until it's not.
3. We must generate more strategic options/more new thinking. It takes 1,000 crazy ideas to generate the one that will transform an organization.
4. We must de-construct what we already do. Look at our initiatives and ask, "What hasn't changed for three years and why?" Is it better to plant clones of our church or to develop radically unique approaches? It's easy to mistake the end of your rut for the horizon. God expects us to be as unconventional as it takes to get His message out there.
5. We must get rid of top-down, autocratic systems. When the mental models of those in leadership depreciate faster than their power does, we're in trouble. Is the challenge building great leaders or to develop organizations that can thrive even without super-heros at the top? The early church was spiritually powerful and institutionally weak, and the church today is often the opposite.