The leader of the leaders, the holy man among holy men wrote a new book about leadership. Designed for those crazy busy, overscheduled CEO's, the wisdom is boiled down to digestible paragraphs for on-the-go reflection and meditation. We fear for church staffs everywhere. Imagining an inspired pastor bounding into the weekly staff meeting, high on a new line from Captain Bill, announcing the last 2% of his or her thoughts about how everyone is performing in an effort to create an honest community. We love Bill, he's a wise man but our years of experience with impressionable CEO's in the real world makes us more than a little wary about these books. Axioms are great, Hybels delivers a compelling collection of them. BC is just suggesting a three day waiting period before preaching, blogging, witnessing, or instituting anything Axiom inspired. To leaders everywhere, commit to the BC axiom: apply all new wisdom taken from books on leadership with extreme caution. Spend a little time, reflect, engage, ask other people what they think before frenetically initiating the latest leadership book inspired reorganization. Upsetting the apple cart may be a good idea but the apples get pretty beat up in the process. Better be sure you are in the apple business before tossing anything over. Leading isn't about the great idea, it's about what you do with it.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Captain Bill Upsets the Apple Cart
The leader of the leaders, the holy man among holy men wrote a new book about leadership. Designed for those crazy busy, overscheduled CEO's, the wisdom is boiled down to digestible paragraphs for on-the-go reflection and meditation. We fear for church staffs everywhere. Imagining an inspired pastor bounding into the weekly staff meeting, high on a new line from Captain Bill, announcing the last 2% of his or her thoughts about how everyone is performing in an effort to create an honest community. We love Bill, he's a wise man but our years of experience with impressionable CEO's in the real world makes us more than a little wary about these books. Axioms are great, Hybels delivers a compelling collection of them. BC is just suggesting a three day waiting period before preaching, blogging, witnessing, or instituting anything Axiom inspired. To leaders everywhere, commit to the BC axiom: apply all new wisdom taken from books on leadership with extreme caution. Spend a little time, reflect, engage, ask other people what they think before frenetically initiating the latest leadership book inspired reorganization. Upsetting the apple cart may be a good idea but the apples get pretty beat up in the process. Better be sure you are in the apple business before tossing anything over. Leading isn't about the great idea, it's about what you do with it.
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