Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Phone Convo with J. Lee Whittington 9.20.16

J. Lee Wittington


The conversation began with some academic advising…
If you want to get published, you need to send your best paper to a friendly conference for review or critique.
Southwestern Academy of Management Conference would be one such conference.

We shifted to J. Lee’s interaction with LifeChurch which he has been attending for a number of years and recently has become more intimately acquainted with their processes and structure.
LifeChurch has a very high feedback culture
In their hiring process, they will terminate a conversation or interview if at any point it seems like it is not going to work out.
Once you are hired, getting fired is very difficult.
One value is the teachable spirit, or humility at every level of the organization.

Finally, we shifted the conversation to a more general leadership subject matter.
Do the thing that energize you and stop doing the things that don’t.
Sometimes its easier to lead without formal authority.
Recommends “Leadership on the Line” by Ronald Heifetz
Choose the important over the urgent
We need to be in the press box and connect the dots as well as being in the game.  It’s a both/and in order to succeed.
What are you learning J. Lee?
o The difference between Godly ambition and worldly ambition.
o Its all about motive
o What do a lot of things for God, killing ourselves for the Kingdom, but am I really doing what God wants me to do?
What is something I should do?
o Pray about who God would send into my life to develop a relationship
o Pray through my calendar
o Don’t be a full time pastor and part time Christian
o Get in front of your calendar
o Let your calendar reflect your priorities

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