After 30 years of organizational and non profit leadership, here are a bunch of things I have learned...

1. 30 Years of
Leadership
Strategery
Dr. John Jackson
William Jessup University

2. Personal
 Grew up in small to medium-sized Baptist Churches
(Congregational polity...oy vey!).
 Youth Pastor at church of 100/4 then 60/40
 Youth, Education, Associate, Senior at 90 year old
Baptist Church of 450-350-450 (moral and financial crisis)
 Regional Exec for 270 churches/3 camps in crisis
 Church Planter for 13 Years; reached 5% of 30 mile
surrounding population; helped plant 5 churches
 3 years with 8k church to 12k and align/synergize to
multi-site
 2 years as University President
 30+ years studying and practicing leadership

3. Pastoral Success?
Pastoral success is about rightly
understanding, pursuing, and achieving
what God’s vision for your ministry is all
about.

4. “So then, just as you received
Christ Jesus as Lord,
continue to live in Him,
rooted and built up in Him,
strengthened in the faith
as you were taught,
and overflowing with thankfulness.”
(Colossians 2:6-7)

5. What Leaders Do…
Leaders cast vision
Leaders create environments
Leaders develop systems
Leaders equip leaders

6.  Leadership functions on the basis of TRUST.
 Integrity has high influence VALUE.
 Our tendency is to work harder on our
IMAGE than on our integrity.
 Integrity means LIVING the truth myself,
before leading others.

8. Favorite Leadership Quotes:
“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision
into reality.” (Warren Bennis)
“Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed
sense of fear and no concept of the odds
against them.”(Dr. Robert Jarvik, inventor of the Jarvik-
7 artificial heart)

9. Leadership Quotes…
“If your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more, do more, and become more, you
are a leader.” (John Quincy Adams)
“The first responsibility of a leader is to define
reality. The last is to say thank you. In
between, the leader is a servant.”(Max Depree)

10. Leadership Quotes…
“The pessimist complains about the wind.
The optimist expects it to change. The
leader adjusts the sails.” (John Maxwell)
“Leadership is the capacity to influence
others by unleashing their power and
potential to impact the greater good.”
(p. xix, Leading at A Higher Level, Blanchard)

11. Leadership Quotes…
We believe that leadership is about positive
and proactive influence in the context of
healthy relationships.
(Jackson & Bosse Smith)

12. Synergy
I commit to leverage my Kingdom influence
by investing in leaders and organizations
who synergize their calling and passions for
the glory of God.
The nexus of passion and trust is where great
Kingdom things happen!

13. #1
Cast Vision

14. Casting Vision
When Leadership Is Pure…
It always starts with a need.
That need sparks passion
within a person.
That person acts in response
to the need.
This action moves others to cooperate.

15. How do you “get” vision?
Isaiah 22:4,5 “Therefore I said, "Turn away
from me; let me weep bitterly. Do not try to
console me over the destruction of my
people." The Lord, the LORD Almighty, has a
day of tumult and trampling and terror in
the Valley of Vision, a day of battering down
walls and of crying out to the mountains.”

16. Characteristics of a
God-Size Vision
 It comes from God. Isaiah 29:11
 It’s always costly. Matthew 17:20
 It requires more than we can give. Phil. 4:19
 Requires Pastor and key leaders to “get
it.” 1 Thess. 5:17

17. #2
Create
Environments

18. Create environments to
reach unchurched,
grow disciples,
develop leaders.

19. Questions from Andy Stanley
Environment Questions…
 Is the context appealing?
 Is the presentation engaging?
 Is the content helpful?

20. Saddleback Original…

21. What is Alignment?
In my view, the task of Christian
Management & Administration is about
aligning strategies, structures, and systems
to support the mission/vision/values of the
organization.
My Contribution? Alignment and Execution
are 75% of the Battle…

23. #3
Develop
Systems

24. -INPUT
-THROUGHPUT
-OUTPUT
manufacturing model
What are the implications for us?
Begin with the end in mind…what do you want
to produce?

25. Organizational Questions…
 Which gauges should we be watching?
 Where are we“manufacturing” energy?

26. Proven Practices
for Getting Things Done…
 What gets talked about gets done.
 What gets trained for gets done.
 What gets measured gets done.
 What gets budgeted gets done.
 What gets confronted gets done.
 What gets rewarded gets done.

27. #4
Equip Leaders

28. Two Views of Leadership Strategy
Growth Limits
Control
Clarity of Vision
Developing Leaders

29. You teach what you know.
You reproduce who you are.

30. Hearing From God…
1. There is an enemy who wants us to be
deceived and destroyed.
2. We have to choose to obey when we
understand His will.
3. We have to learn to discern God’s voice and
separate it from others.
4. Choose to reproduce. Requires security and
releasing ministry (Ephesians 4 model)
5. Can you imagine a 5-fold ministry in your
____church?

31. Calling is not about the size
of a church,
the scope of a ministry,
or the bottom line of a business –
it is about the heart of God.