The leader is the organization’s top strategist… systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.
BILL HYBELSThe leader is the organization’s top strategist… systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.
BILL HYBELSThe more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.
BILL HYBELSLeaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels.
BILL HYBELSIf you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can.
BILL HYBELSPrayerless people cut themselves off from God’s prevailing power, and the frequent result is the familiar feeling of being overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, defeated. Surprising numbers of people are willing to settle for lives like that.
BILL HYBELSThe only way to motivate people is to live a motivated life in front of them
BILL HYBELSYou will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better.
BILL HYBELSLeadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.
BILL HYBELSTo be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.
BILL HYBELSWe made a mistake. What we should have done when people crossed the line of faith and become Christians, we should have started telling people and teaching people that they have to take responsibility to become ‘self feeders.’
BILL HYBELSTen years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I’d see it in my lifetime.
BILL HYBELSWhatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.
BILL HYBELSThe worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.
BILL HYBELSVisionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.
BILL HYBELSNothing that matters in this world happens unless leaders lead it.
BILL HYBELSI can usually sense that a leading is from the Holy Spirit when it calls me to humble myself, serve somebody, encourage somebody or give something away. Very rarely will the evil one lead us to do those kinds of things.
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