Andy Stanley: Listening, Learning & Leading

May 5, 2009 in Uncategorized with 9 Comments

  • 3:46 PM tonymorganlive - “I don’t see things until they happen.” (referring to the song & dance before he spoke.)
  • 3:47 PM tonymorganlive - “Systems create behaviors.”
  • 3:51 PM tonymorganlive - “Leadership is not about making decision on your own. It’s about owning decisions once they are made.”
  • 3:51 PM tonymorganlive - “As leaders, we gravitate to voices we want to hear.”
  • 3:52 PM tonymorganlive - “Leaders become insulated and isolated…and they like it.”
  • 3:54 PM tonymorganlive - “The leader shouldn’t make all the decisions. The leader should just make sure the decisions are good ones.”
  • 3:55 PM tonymorganlive - “You are probably not the smartest person in the organization. You’re just the leader.”
  • 3:57 PM tonymorganlive - “You have got to create a mechanism to listen to the right people.”
  • 3:58 PM tonymorganlive - “What and who you listen to will determine what you do.”
  • 3:59 PM tonymorganlive - “Your private decisions will be judged publicly.
  • 4:03 PM tonymorganlive - (Andy is talking about the decision process of cutting budgets during the recession.)
  • 4:04 PM tonymorganlive - “The more sense of input that people have, the less the push back.”
  • 4:05 PM tonymorganlive - “Leaders are attracted to environments where ideas and opinions are heard.”
  • 4:05 PM tonymorganlive - “If you want great leaders, you need to create systems for listening to great leaders.”
  • 4:06 PM tonymorganlive - “Leaders want more than assignments. They want input into the decision-making process.”
  • 4:07 PM tonymorganlive - “Leaders want to influence their own destinies.” [amen.]
  • 4:08 PM tonymorganlive - “Leaders who refuse to listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing important to say.”
  • 4:09 PM tonymorganlive - (oh my… I hope you’re paying attention. This is good stuff. It’s so true.)
  • 4:10 PM tonymorganlive - “The wisest man in the world [King Solomon] had the most to say about getting good counsel.”
  • 4:13 PM tonymorganlive - (Andy is talking about the challenges of a highly hierarchical organizational structure.)
  • 4:15 PM tonymorganlive - “Eventually a seniority structure leaves the seniors in charge.”
  • 4:16 PM tonymorganlive - “Your structure has to change or your structure will impede information flow.”
  • 4:20 PM tonymorganlive - “I don’t want anyone to live with the frustration that I used to live with in the lower levels of the organization.”
  • 4:20 PM tonymorganlive - “You have to rethink your systems.”
  • 4:21 PM tonymorganlive - “Please don’t live with an organizational structure that impedes information flow.”
  • 4:23 PM tonymorganlive - (I could listen to this type of leadership, systems thinking all day long. Great stuff.)
  • 4:23 PM tonymorganlive - “You want the best thinkers and the most strategic people at the table with you.”
  • 4:24 PM tonymorganlive - “Fairness ended in the Garden of Eden. Never shoot for fair. When you shoot for fair, you’ll be unjust. Shoot for right.”
  • 4:27 PM tonymorganlive - (Andy is talking through North Point’s current organizational structure.)
  • 4:28 PM tonymorganlive - “You need to listen deep in your organization. That doesn’t mean you have to meet with everyone in the organization.”
  • 4:32 PM tonymorganlive - (Now Andy is talking about how he connects with about 150 volunteers on a quarterly basis.)
  • 4:34 PM tonymorganlive - “Resist the urge to lead every meeting you attend.”
  • 4:34 PM tonymorganlive - “What we don’t want to hear is generally what we need to hear.”
  • 4:35 PM tonymorganlive - “The people we don’t want to hear from are the people we often need to hear from most.”
  • 4:36 PM tonymorganlive - (Session is concluding. Battery is dying. Continue the conversation and questions. I’ll catch up with you later.)

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9 Responses to “Andy Stanley: Listening, Learning & Leading”

  1. Cameyg May 5, 2009 at 3:00 pm #

    Thanks Tony for live blogging this!

  2. Jason Curlee May 5, 2009 at 3:03 pm #

    Great key points from Andy…..good job Tony

  3. brian miller May 5, 2009 at 3:12 pm #

    Tony, thanks for the great points from DRIVE. Just started Killing Cockroaches. Love it!

  4. Kevin Connell May 5, 2009 at 3:17 pm #

    Thanks for doing this Tony, I WISH I WAS AT DRIVE09!!!

  5. Doug Lake May 5, 2009 at 3:18 pm #

    I like and appreciate when you do this. Thanks Tony!

    BTW- I am sharing in our all staff meeting today some stuff from your CatWest lunch talk and Killing Cockroaches!

  6. Nick Blevins May 5, 2009 at 5:21 pm #

    2 observations:

    I really wish I could have been at Drive

    You really need to work at North Point :) Because me, who barely knows you, obviously knows what’s best -j/k It just seems like a great fit.

    Thanks for posting this.

  7. Stewart May 5, 2009 at 8:15 pm #

    Thanks for blogging this Tony. We’ve got a systems (or lack of systems) problem we are trying to address at my church right now. This was incredibly insightful and convicting. Do you know if the full session will be available online anywhere?

  8. Jim May 6, 2009 at 4:02 am #

    Tony, Thanks for live-blogging.

  9. S. May 6, 2009 at 1:18 pm #

    just stopping by. . . . interesting stuff, but who’s Andy Stanley? [yes, I know that shows I'm not part of "the circle" - which is my point]