Four Ways to Develop Yourself as a Leader
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Leadership Straight from Bill Hybels
Four Ways to Develop
Yourself as a Leader
Four ways that you develop
yourself as a leader.
I wish I could say
there were 17 ways.
I can narrow it down to four.
I say this in my sleep.
I have to own it myself.
Read everything you can read
on the subject of leadership.
Do not read recreationally
about leadership.
The biggest mistake leaders make.
They read recreationally
about leadership.
You read about leadership
as a discipline.
You make a commitment
to read one book every month
or read one book
every three months.
You do not wait
until you feel like it.
You take a shower
and eat every day.
If I have been entrusted
with the leadership gift
I need to read a leadership book
once during a period of time you choose.
You read as a discipline.
Second, go where
leadership is taught.
One of the reasons we believe
in the Global Leadership Summit
is because when you get world-class leaders
and world-class communicators
you learn world-class lessons.
Three years later we are talking about
a 30-minute talk we saw on a screen.
It is influencing us today.
That is the power of it.
Go where leadership is taught.
You go there as a discipline.
You do not go thinking
that it will be fun.
You think that you
need some input.
Read everything you can
read about leadership.
Go where leadership is taught.
Third, get around people who are ahead of you
as leaders and ask them smart questions.
The way I do this is I will contact someone
who is ahead of me in leadership
and say, "I have respected you
and watched you.
I will buy you lunch.
I will ask you three questions.
It will not take more
than 45-60 minutes.
No expectation beyond that.
I am not going to ask you
to 're-parent' me or be pen pal.
I will not waste your time.
You are ahead
of me as a leader.
I am going to ask
you three questions
and it will be a huge
contribution to my life.
May I buy you lunch?"
The fourth is to keep leading whatever you are
leading as intensely as you can lead it.
Most of you are leading something.
A high percentage of what
you will learn as a leader
comes from showing up
to work every day...
The phrase we use at Willow is
we are all incessant tinkerers.
If things are going good at Willow,
we still show up every day and think
that we can make it 2% better.
We are incessant tinkerers.
This is a staff value of ours.
If anyone on our staff says,
"I got it up and going. It is on
cruise control and that is cool."
It is not in our culture.
There is always another 2%
you can get out of anything.
We want you to find that 2%.
Make it stronger, faster.
Make it available to more people.
Make it deeper, Godlier.
Nobody is allowed
to be on cruise control.
We are always tinkering to try to make
something better for God's glory.
Read everything you
can read on leadership.
Go where leadership is taught.
Find someone who is ahead of you
and ask them smart questions.
Lead as best you can every day
and you will get better.