Pieces of the Puzzle Leadership in the 21 st Century

Pieces ofPieces ofthe Puzzlethe PuzzleLeadership in the 21Leadership in the 21stst Century Century

• STANDARD SPEED SOLVING

• ONE-HANDED!!

• BLINDFOLDED!!!!

My friend Hal

www.whatsinthepuzzle.comwww.whatsinthepuzzle.com

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


Wabi-Sabinot an excuse for:

SloppinessLaziness

Not doing your bestNot striving for excellence


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


Wikia subset of the OPEN SOURCE

revolution

• Linux• Creative Commons• Tropical Disease Initiative


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


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…”


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


Webeverybody knows

this!

• Websites• Email


Web 2.0• Connexity

– Interconnected– Interdependent

• Smart Mobs – Swarms (Howard Rheingold)

• Social Networks– MySpace; Facebook– Flickr– Blogs– Second Life


Web 2.0for the church…

• Blogs– not just for the preacher– youth groups– small groups– Sunday school classes– administrative teams– committees



• Outreach tools– blogs– myspace– email lists/blasts– podcasts of worship/sermons



• Get viral– Snakes on a Plane– buzz marketing– infectious

The Christian faith isthe “good infection”

- C.S. Lewis


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?


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


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


WOW!!!Positively Deviant

Behavior

“Whenever anything is being accomplished, I have learned, it is being done by a monomaniac with a mission.”

- Peter Drucker


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)


WriteWhat story are you telling?

• Once upon a time…• It was a dark and stormy

night…• We set out on our

journey…


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



“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.



“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


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!

Is it IN you???Is it IN you???Exodus 3:1-20

It It ISIS in you!!! in you!!!

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Pieces of the Puzzle Leadership in the 21 st Century