Tim Schraeder in Leadership Summit 2009
Gary Hamel was ranked as the #1 Business Thinker of 2008 by The Wall Street Journal and called “the world’s leading expert on business strategy” by Fortune. An author, speaker, professor, and innovative management consultant, he is most widely known for originating concepts such as “strategic intent” and “core competencies.” The founder of Strategos, a worldwide strategic consulting company, his vision for the workplace revolves around releasing human potential and creativity. Hamel will address the paradigm shift needed to fully engage the potential of people and explain how tomorrow’s most successful companies will be organized. He is the author of Leading the Revolution and The Future of Management.
> The most important question facing the church: Are you changing? Are you the vanguard or the old guard?
> Since 1990, the number of Americans claiming no religious affiliation has quadrupled.
> In 2005, only 17% of Americans attended a religious service on a Sunday morning.
> The “Christian” brand has taken a beating among young people… most have a neutral view of Christianity.
> We’re not very different than the world around us.
> A healthy church will have a healthy conversion rate of 20:1.
> Only 3.5% of churches are evangelistically healthy.
> 9 out of 10 Americans say they have faith in a spiritual being.
> 9% of Americans say they are non-religious or non-spiritual.
> 1/3 will say they are spiritual, but not religious.
> What’s the problem? God’s Message or our methods?
> Christians are loosing “market-share” because of apathy
> Messages, Marketing, Programs, Giving, Staffing, Facilities and Organizations need to be evaluated.
> Vision becomes strategies; strategies become policies; policies become practices; and practices lead to entropy. (missed the end of this one!)
> Churches need to learn to morph, and it usually takes a crisis for change to happen.
> We haven’t been powerful magnets for people to be drawn to Christ.
> They haven’t been potent catalysts for the Gospel.
> Our churches have turned into weekly convocations for the converted and the content.
> Young people view the “big church” like they view big government and big business.
> We should look at it as a blessing that people are seeing through religion so they can have a real life.
> Unprecedented changes bring unprecedented opportunities. But you must have unprecedented strategies.
> Our problem is inertia.
> The pace of change has gone hypercritical.
> Change happens at an accelerated pace.
> We live in the world that’s shaken, not stirred.
> You’re either going forward or backward, you’re not standing still.
> The world is becoming more turbulent faster than organizations can become more resilient.
> Most organizations end up shackled to one model, and when it atrophies, so does the organization.
> Success is always self-correcting.
