Pieces of Pieces of the Puzzle the Puzzle Leadership in the 21 Leadership in the 21 st st Century Century
Dec 19, 2015
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Wabi-Sabilearning to live gracefully
with imperfection• Saints & Sinners – Len Sweet• Tortured Wonders – Rodney Clapp• Beautiful Wreck – Shawn Mullins• Beautiful Mess – Rick McKinley• Messy Spirituality – Mike Yaconelli
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Wabi-Sabinot an excuse for:
SloppinessLaziness
Not doing your bestNot striving for excellence
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WikiA collaborative website whose content
can be edited by anyone who has access to it.
• Wikipedia• Wikiletics• Wikinomics – the more you
share, the more you win
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Wikia subset of the OPEN SOURCE
revolution
• Linux• Creative Commons• Tropical Disease Initiative
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Wiki
• The Wisdom of Crowds–None of us is as smart as all of us.–None of us is as stupid as all of us.
“Groups become great only when everyone in them, leaders and
members alike, is free to do his or herabsolute best.”
Warren Bennis & Patricia BiedermanOrganizing Genius
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Wikifor the church means…
• Everyone can contribute• But only if we’re not
concerned about our ROI – wikiphiles contribute because they are passionate about their subject
• “Beware of the scribes…”
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Wiki Wiki = Quicki QuickiThe FAST bus from the airport
“Incrementalism is innovation’s worst enemy.”
Nicholas Negroponte (MIT)
“We have a strategic plan; it’s calleddoing things.
Herb Kelleher (Southwest Airlines)
Hare = 1; Tortoise = 0It’s a HARE-Y world.
Tom Peters
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Web 2.0• Connexity
– Interconnected– Interdependent
• Smart Mobs – Swarms (Howard Rheingold)
• Social Networks– MySpace; Facebook– Flickr– Blogs– Second Life
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Web 2.0for the church…
• Blogs– not just for the preacher– youth groups– small groups– Sunday school classes– administrative teams– committees
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Web 2.0for the church…
• Outreach tools– blogs– myspace– email lists/blasts– podcasts of worship/sermons
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Web 2.0for the church…
• Get viral– Snakes on a Plane– buzz marketing– infectious
The Christian faith isthe “good infection”
- C.S. Lewis
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WOW!!!What’s your WOW factor?
• What sets you apart from the crowd?
• What can you do well that nobody else can do?
• What are you willing to die for?• What is it about this church’s
experience of Jesus Christ that the world cannot live without knowing?
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WOW!!!Positively Deviant Behavior
• Positive – Builds UP, doesn’t tear DOWN
• Deviant – off the beaten path, under the radar
• Behavior – not words, not beliefs, but action
It's not some game i playIt's in my DNAIt's what I do
- Donald Fagen
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WOW!!!Positively Deviant
Behavior
• Don’t waste time trying to fix what’s wrong• Spend an ENORMOUS amount of time
discovering your strengths (spiritual gifts!)• FOCUS on what’s right and build on it
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WOW!!!Positively Deviant
Behavior
“Whenever anything is being accomplished, I have learned, it is being done by a monomaniac with a mission.”
- Peter Drucker
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WOW!!!Positively Deviant Behavior
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well preserved piece, but to skid across the line broadside, thoroughly used up, worn
out, leaking oil, shouting … ‘GERONIMO!’” - Bill McKenna, professional motorcycle racer (Cycle magazine)
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WriteWhat story are you telling?
• Once upon a time…• It was a dark and stormy
night…• We set out on our
journey…
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Writea compelling story
“A key – perhaps the key – to leadership is the effective the effective communication of a storcommunication of a story.”y.”
—Howard Gardner, Leading Minds: An Anatomy of Leadership
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Writea compelling story
“You don’t get the privilege of deciding what other people will
think.”Seth Godin – Small is the New Big
You do have the privilege of decidingwhat story people will hear about
your church.
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Writea compelling story
“If people aren't happy with the story you're spreading, the
problem is not with the people;it's with the story.”
Seth Godin – Small is the New Big
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Writea KINGDOM story
• It’s a story about God and people• It’s a story about wabi-sabi, about saints
& sinners• It’s a story about wiki connections;
everyone has a place in this story• It’s a story about web 2.0 – The book of
Actsis viral
• It’s a story with a huge WOW factor!