Smart Pastor

• Henry Williams shares his notes
• My Post on Session 2
• Session Notes from the Talk in Alabama blog
• Live Intentionally on Session 2
• Ryan Day on Session 2
• What is Willow’s guest blogger saying (added 8-10)
• Bobby Gruenewald of LifeChurch.tv on Session 2.  (added 8-13-07)

I was not familiar with Rev. Flake and when I heard in his bio that, “he was a people person who gets results,” looked forward to hearing from him.  I would have rather heard more stories about how he got things done rather than a hurried overview of everything he believed in leadership.

• After lunch notes by Connexion Pastor
• Brad Goode’s notes
• Ryan Day on session 3
• Henry is right…we needed more stories from Floyd
• Chris on day 1 and he rightly notes that Floyd was hard after lunch
• I think over at Live Intentionally was the fasted keyboard in the west.  Good summary!
• Scott Tyson on all of day one
• Day one as told by Ryan Geiger
• Scot McKnight on the willow creek blog.  (added 8-10)

I thought this presentation was great.  He really challenged us to both work from our strengths and get the people around us to work from their strengths.  He believes, and I think rightly so, that we have the most potential to achieve in the area of our strengths.

He was a little controversial when he maintained that people, at least in their temperament, basically do not change.  Our values might, but our personality remains the same.  Therefore embrace who we are rather than trying to fix what we are not.

My favorite quote, “Great teams are well rounded because each team member is not.”

Posts from around the web on session 4

• Media Thoughts on session 4.  (the poor guy lost the satellite signal for a while!)
• The St. Paul Online recap of the entire day
• Session 4 as retold by Live Intentionally
• Session 4 summary by Ryan Day
• Doug Gamble (and myself) liked Marcus a lot.
• Day 1 by Sharla
• BibleMoth on session 4
• The Appian Way shares his favorite quotes from day one.  (added 8-11)

I really liked this presentation.  He was forcing us to think ruthlessly about the effectiveness of what we are doing.  (I think he sold a couple of books to me!)  He maintained that in non-profit groups the worthiness of the cause can trump the possibility for effectiveness.  To be good stewards of our resources we always need to be asking if we are using what we have been given most effectively.

Posts from around the web on Session 5

• Dan Kimball guest blogs on session 5.
• Community 4:12 on session 5
• Ryan Crozier shares his notes on session 5

Before Professor Porter, their was a presentation about “helping people to fee themselves.”

• Stephen Barry blogs on that presentation. (added 8-11)
• So does Joe Miller.  (added 8-11)
• Tony Morgan also liked it.  (added 8-11)

Have heard General Powell before I was a little disappointed in this presentation.  He did provide some nuggets for leading.

What has the world said?  Check out these posts from around the web on session 6

• Read Dave Ferguson’s thoughts here
• Re:generate has a good post on all of day two
• “Mr T” shares his observations.  (added 8-11)
• BH Parker on day two.  (added 8-11)
• The Appian Way on day two.  (added 8-11)
• Craig Groeschel of LifeChurch.tv on Powell’s interview.  (added 8-13-07)

John Ortberg can preach.  He challenged us all to live fully into God’s calling upon us.

And the world says about session 7…

• Tim Howey has a great summary of John’s Talk.
• Bishop Alan shares his thoughts.
• Jonathan Hopson’s reaction.  (added 8-11)

As far as leading, this one did not do a whole lot for me.  As far as me as a leader…I was deeply moved.  Richard Curtis has a passion for the poor that is beyond inspiring.  This has been the highlight thus far.  It has forced me to think about not so much how I lead, but what I lead.

I rarely tear up, but I was emotional with tears of sorrow and repentance.

How did others feel?  Survey says…

• John Laegler found it moving, too.
• Henry Williams gets the content down very well for us all.
• Ramblings of a church IT guy on day two. (added 8-11)

I was really looking forward to this.  I was present several years ago when President Clinton spoke and I thought it was quite informative.  Who would know more about leadership than a president, huh?

For whatever reason this talk did not click with me.  I think a great deal of his character came through, but not his leadership abilities.

The blogging world says…

• Jonathan Hopson has a good write up on Carter’s presentation.  (added 8-13-07)
• I like the summary that Sabbath Journey North has.  (added 8-13-07)
• Craig Groeschel of LifeChurch.tv on President Carter’s Interview.  (added 8-13-07)

I really liked this talk.  Out of the 10 talks, this one was the most down to earth and practical.  It stressed two themes.

1.  Motivation is critical to top performance.

2.  It is the leaders job to motivated him or her self and the people he or she leads.

He went on to give a series of thoughts for motivating others.  None were new to me from management books, but it was helpful to hear how they had been done well and failed at by a seasoned pastor.  If you are thinking about buying the CD’s, I would consider this one.

I think Bill is usually at his best when he is inspirational, but this one was quite good.

Around the web, the feedback is…

• Sabbath Journey North on Session 10.  (added 8-13-07)
• Corey Mann shares his notes.  (added 9-25-07)

OTHER LEADERSHIP SUMMIT LINKS

• Here are some behind the scenes looks as putting on a host site.
• Mark Waltz, one of my favorite bloggers, wrote about the whole event.  (added 9-25-07)