Category: Leadership

I Just Signed Up for the NINES


I just signed up for the NINES, a FREE leadership conference offered by Leadership Network. What’s cool is that each leader teaches for 9 minutes. The other cool thing is that it’s online, so no travel is involved. You can sign up by clicking on the logo above.

There are a TON of leaders already confirmed to speak including:

Matt Williams (Grace Church Greenville)
Bob Roberts (Northwood Church)
Dave Ferguson (Community Christian Church)
Matt Carter (The Austin Stone Church)
Lawrence Aker (Cornerstone Baptist Church)
Dan Kimball (Vintage Faith Church)
Ken Fong (Evergreen Baptist Church)
Bill Easum (Easum & Associates)
Bryan Carter (Concord Church)
Jim Burgen (Flatirons Community Church)
Reggie McNeal (Leadership Network)
Perry Noble (NewSpring Church)
Leonard Sweet (Author/Speaker)
Ed Stetzer (Lifeway Research)
Mark Batterson (National Community Church)
Alan Hirsch (Forge Mission Training Network)
Dino Rizzo (Healing Place Church)
Greg Surratt (Seacoast Church)
Sam Chand (Sam Chand Ministries)
Jon Tyson (Trinity Grace Church, NYC)
Reggie Joiner (CCO, reThink)
Nancy Ortberg (TeamWorx2)
Mike Breaux (Heartland Church)
Pete Wilson (Cross Point Church)
Neil Cole (Church Multiplication Associates)
Jenni Catron (Cross Point Church)
Noel Heikkinen (Riverview Church)
David Foster (The Gathering)
Mark Bankord (Heartland Community Church)
John Bishop (Living Waters Church)
Rick Rusaw (LifeBridge Church)
Geoff Surratt (Seacoast Church)
Jim Tomberlin (Third Quarter Consulting)
Anne Jackson (FlowerDust.net)
Naeem Fazal (Mosaic Church)
John Coulombe (First Ev Free Fullerton)
Teresa McBean (NorthStar Community Church)
Jason Cusick (Faith Church)
Bambi Encarnacion (First Ev Free Fullerton)
Ken Fong (Evergreen Baptist Church)
Judy West (Windsor Crossing Church)
Scott Wilson (The Oaks Fellowship)
Amy Hanson(Author/Speaker)
Toby Slough (Cross Timbers Church)
Troy Gramling (Flamingo Road Church)
Scott Nickell (Flatirons Community Church)
Jorge Acevedo (Grace Church)

Failure is not an Option, it’s a REQUIREMENT

I caught this video over at http://gbrenna.com. It’s Honda’s story of their many failures over the years. Here’s what I learned from it:

1) Honda is a great company because the leaders encourage FAILURE. “100 failures will lead to a success.”

2) Honda knows what they are about: engines. So they let the engineers do their thing: create and innovate.

3) Since they encourage failure, employees that fail are encouraged to learn from their mistakes and move on, hopefully to fail again.

The implications for the local church are many: Are you afraid of trying anything? What are you failing at right now? Have you learned from your past failures? Has your church fostered an environment of failure? Do you serve a big enough God who can handle your failures? Have you given yourself the freedom to fail? Is your church so big that you don’t “risk it all” anymore? Is your church so small you are afraid to risk anything for fear of failure?

Here’s the vid: