Book Review Andy Stanley "The Next Generation Leader" 5 Essentials for leadership

1. Stanley, Andy. The next Generation Leader: 5 Essentials for Those
Who Will Shape the Future. Sisters, OR: Multnomah, 2003.

2.  What are the leadership principles I wish
someone had shared with me when I was a
young leader?
 What do I know now that I wish I had known
then?
 Of all that could be said about leadership,
what must be conveyed to next generation
leaders?

3. Competence
Courage
Clarity
Coaching
Character

4.  Leaders must focus on their strength
and delegate their weaknesses.
 Andy Stanley encourages young
leaders to “channel their energies
toward those areas of leadership in
which they are most likely to excel.”

5.  The less you do the more you can accomplish.
 The less you do, the more you enable others to
accomplish.
 The secret of concentration is elimination.
 The moment a leader steps away from his core
competencies, his effectiveness as a leader
diminishes.

6.  When we exert our authority in an area where we lack
competence, we can derail projects and demotivate
those who have the skills we lack.
 And the truth is admitting a weakness is a sign of
strength.
 Leadership is about getting things done through other
people.
 If a there is no one to whom we can delegate, it is the
leaders fault.

7.  John Maxwell says this: You are most valuable as
leader where you add the most value
 Leaders must narrow down their job to the one or
two things that only they can do.
 Devoting a little of yourself to everything means
committing a great deal of yourself to nothing.
 Being busy isn’t being productive.

8.  As a leader you do not have to be the smartest or
most talented, but Andy Stanley stresses,
 The leader is the one who has the courage to
initiate, to set things in motion, to move ahead.
 Wherever there is fear there is opportunity,
where there is great fear there is great
opportunity.
 The leader fears missing an opportunity

9.  Eventually a leaders lust for progress
overwhelms his reluctance to take risks.
 A leaders regrets generally revolve around
missed opportunities.
 An unwillingness to accept risk has swamped
more leaders.
 Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage
assumes fear.

10.  If you don’t conquer your fear, you are going to
miss out on some great things in life.
 Leaders are not always the first to see an
opportunity. They are simply the first to seize an
opportunity.
 A leader is someone who has the courage to say
publicly what everybody is whispering privately.
 Accepting the status quo is the equivalent to
accepting a death sentence.

11.  Careful is cerebral; fearful is emotional
 Careful is fueled by information, fearful is fueled by
imagination
 Careful calculates risk; fearful avoids risk
 Careful wants to achieve success; fearful wants to
avoid failure
 Careful is concerned about progress; fearful is
concerned about protection.

12.  Thou shalt not pretend
 Thou shalt not turn a blind eye.
 Thou shalt not exaggerate.
 Thou shalt not shoot the bearer of bad news.
 Thou shalt not hide behind the numbers
 Thou shalt not ignore constructive criticism.
 Thou shalt not isolate thyself

13.  Uncertainty is not an indication of
poor leadership; it underscores the
need for leadership.
 Uncertainty creates the necessary
condition for leadership.

14. You can survive
being wrong, but
you can’t survive
being unclear.

15. As leaders we can
afford to be
uncertain, but we
cannot afford to be
unclear.

16.  I can go farther and faster with someone
coaching me than I can on my own.
 1.Observes. 2.Instructs. 3. Inspires
 An effective coach does not need to possess
more skills than the person he is coaching.

17.  A coach helps us assess the present
so that we operate more effectively
in the future.
 An effective coach does not need to
possess more skills than the person
he is coaching.
 Coaching does not center on
problem solving, instead it focuses
on performance enhancement.

18.  Let the wise listen and add to their learning, and
let the discerning get guidance. (Proverbs 1:5, NIV)
 The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise
man listen to advice. (proverbs 12:15, NIV)
 Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many
advisers they succeed. (proverbs 15:22, NIV)
 Listen to advice and accept instruction, and in the
end you will be wise. (proverbs 19:20, NIV)

19.  You can lead without character,
but you wont be a leader worth
following
 To become a leader worth
following you must be intentional
about developing the inner man
 Character is to do what is
right even when its hard.

20. Will give the moral
authority to influence
We as leaders do not plan
to mess up, but we must
plan against it

21.  available
 accountable
 dependable
 generous
 honest
 loyal
 pure
 sensitive
 transparent