Sweet Ch. 4 - Surround Sound
Things I liked:
1. A leaders job is to involve people in a mission that will change their life and the world. - That's just good.
2. and to go with it - Everyone has a mission and can make a difference.
3. Mission needs to be related in narrative form. - praise God for those who get this. We need to go somewhere, not just hear three thoughts from you that float in space forever.
Questions I have:
1. Why can we not get away from the business world in our stories and dreams of vision? Are we that similar? Is the church and the Fortune 500 company really going the same places, needing the same leaders?
2. If we were to use metaphors as part of our narrative, and the leader is a gardener cultivating growth and health, letting each plant grow in its time and way, bringing what it was created to bring to the garden, then could we also say that the best leaders are those who let others lead the group to places that they themselves would not have gone and in ways that they themselves would not have gotten there? What if a leader spent more time releasing others than controlling them? If this is the case, then how do I as a leader spend more time painting the picture of what I believe in people and where we could go, instead of logistics and direction?
3. The title of the chapter is surround sound... how do we surround ourselves with people who we can trust, who can trust us and who can survive in community?
4. Does every great leader have to suck at home? I understand that many people who don't have a mission seem to falter, because what makes them great is their mission, but what about just being a person. Why can't that bring us infinite value? Is it too much to ask a leader to be a whole person?
5. Why can't I perfect the breakdancing move "the head spin"?
1 comment:
You're white, you're Nazarene, you're the cutest thing to a hobbit this side of reality, and you don't know why you can't headspin. Hmmm....
Haven't read the book, but your second question got me to thinking a bit. I am fully for the idea of an "unleashed Church", although it really sounds to much like a Jet Li fest. And not that I'm against Jet Li, or unleashing people and their gifts, mind you; but I think I also realize now having dealt with teenagers in my own home that many people do not like to be unleashed or are simply not equipped to stand on their own.
Perhaps too many leaders have not offered structure where it should be while, at the same time, have not taught their followers how to stand on their own feet in areas where they should be set free. Or it could be a combination of that and the fact that in modernism we forgot how to walk.
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