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When Willow called and asked if I’d be willing to blog about this session of the Leadership Summit I pressed for more information. What did they want? They knew I’d probably blog about it anyway, so what was the reason for the “extra” ask?

Their rationale for asking was pretty simple.

They wanted me to reflect on the session, and offer my thoughts on implementation. In other words, listen to the talk and (this is my interpretation of their request) answer the questions “So what?” and “Now what?”

I’ll change the font on my comments (they’ll look like this) and enter them where I think most helpful. The rest of the blog will be comprised of my notes on Bill’s Opening Session 2008.

We’re here because of the Summit promise. “We will break out backs to host an event every year that has a laser focus on leadership, with a faculty of practitioners. We dumb nothing down. Not for the girls, or the Canadians.”

The Canadians can afford a joke. Their dollar is stronger than the US dollar.

Remarkable. Bill offended so many people with this one sentence that he may have set a record…

We teach leadership, unapologetically from a Christian perspective. We ask you to give us the benefit of the doubt that we really believe this. We believe that leadership’s highest usage is not just making more money…it is to advance the purposes of God in the world.

You are all at the Summit because you lead something. You make decisions every day.  Those leading very large complex organizations may actually make hundreds of decisions a day.  Some of our decisions have very high stakes.

A decision about making a reduction in the size of our staff was required. We had to eliminate 30 staff positions. I saw the list of people who were going to lose their opportunity to lead around Willow.  God kept whispering, “This is what leaders do. They make tough, tough calls.”

That’s why God gave the leadership gift… When Willow called and asked if I’d be willing to blog about this session of the Leadership Summit I pressed for more information. What did they want? They knew I’d probably blog about it anyway, so what was the reason for the “extra” ask?

Their rationale for asking was pretty simple.

They wanted me to reflect on the session, and offer my thoughts on implementation. In other words, listen to the talk and (this is my interpretation of their request) answer the questions “So what?” and “Now what?”

I’ll change the font on my comments (they’ll look like this) and enter them where I think most helpful. The rest of the blog will be comprised of my notes on Bill’s Opening Session 2008.

We’re here because of the Summit promise. “We will break out backs to host an event every year that has a laser focus on leadership, with a faculty of practitioners. We dumb nothing down. Not for the girls, or the Canadians.”

The Canadians can afford a joke. Their dollar is stronger than the US dollar.

Remarkable. Bill offended so many people with this one sentence that he may have set a record…

We teach leadership, unapologetically from a Christian perspective. We ask you to give us the benefit of the doubt that we really believe this. We believe that leadership’s highest usage is not just making more money…it is to advance the purposes of God in the world.

You are all at the Summit because you lead something. You make decisions every day.  Those leading very large complex organizations may actually make hundreds of decisions a day.  Some of our decisions have very high stakes.

A decision about making a reduction in the size of our staff was required. We had to eliminate 30 staff positions. I saw the list of people who were going to lose their opportunity to lead around Willow.  God kept whispering, “This is what leaders do. They make tough, tough calls.”

That’s why God gave the leadership gift…