The leader is the organization’s top strategist… systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.
BILL HYBELSPeople won’t give their best unless their leader challenges them to do so.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots.
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it’s to figure out what God wants to get done in this world, figure out what role you play in that, and then to move something or someone from here to there.
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It helps certain church leaders identify the fact that they have the spiritual gift of leadership that the Bible talks about in Romans 12:8.
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Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader’s arsenal.
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There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.
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You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.
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Life is too short and the world too compassion-starved for you to keep subsisting in situations that drag you down and curtail your potential to help advance the Kingdom. There’s just too much at stake.
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The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.
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Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.
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It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person’s lead.
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God is looking for women and men who are full on for Him… people who have abandoned their own program and are just looking for how they can use their unique talents and abilities to further God’s activities and programs in this world.
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If you are anything like me you’ll have to fight tooth-and-nail to stay in the game (evangelism). Because although the home runs have been invigorating, my batting average over the years is abysmally low.
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If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.
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Our minds, like the needle in that compass, can focus on a variety of subjects throughout the day. But in the end, when they’re left alone to settle, they’ll focus on the objects of our greatest affection.
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To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.
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