John Ortberg introducing Gary Hamel
its not only Fortune 500 companies that need to innovate and change. so do churches
since 1990, the # of Americans that claim they are atheist or agnostic has quadrupled
the Christian brand has taken a beating....especially among young people
9 out of 10 Americans say they have a faith in a spiritual being
is the Gospel failing us, or is it our institutions?
all too often, our churches haven't been powerful magnets for attracting people to Christ
organizations lose their relevance when internal change lags external change
unprecetented change brings unprecetented opportunity, but it requires unprecetented strategy
the pace of change has gone hypercritical
in this environment, you are either going forward or you are going backward
loving this challenging message from Gary Hamel
the reality is most organizations end up shackled to one model
success is a self-correcting phenomonon
we need to change the way we change
how do you overcome the gravitational pull of the past?
youc have to overcome the temptation to take refuge in denial
every organization is successful until it is not
face the facts
in turbulent times, humility is not just a virtue, it is a survival strategy
do we welcome dissent, or do we try to stifle it?
do you learn from the positive deviants?
the future has already happened, but it is unequally distributed
you have to generate more strategic options
Hamel mentions Dell Idea Storm
generating ideas must be open and participatory
every industry is filled with orthodoxies, large and small
what hasn't changed for 3 or 4 or 5 years? why?
are we doing it this way because the Lord commanded it?
why can't we bring our laptops to church to take notes?
why can't we open source the sermon?
think of how radically unconventional Jesus' message was
would you be willing to sacrifice your programs on the altar of God's higher purpose?
is the challenge finding great leaders, or is the challenge building great organizations that can thrive without superhumans at the top?
we need organizations that are radically different from the organizations we have today
the web is a post-bureaucratic reality
young people do not want to work for large, top-down organizations
the Facebook generation does not want to work for a Fortune 500 company and i'm not sure they want to go to a church that feels like one
we are not going to get fundamentally better at changing lives if we don't get fundamentally better at changing our churches
our churches need to be the most vibrant, resilient, adaptive organizations in the world!
