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Session 3, Pat Lencioni, How to Lose Good People

Dan Sullivan · August 8, 2013 ·

Session 3, Pat Lencioni

His favorite talk!

How to lose your best people

His dad hated his job, but he wanted to fix "that job thing, that's a problem"

His first job, propping up targets at a shooting range. When the horn blows, jump in the hole and duck.

Now kids go to sports camps, remember when summer came and we had to get good jobs?

His goal almost his whole life was to get a great job.

He watches Dirty Jobs and everybody on there loves their job! Every episode involves poop and they love it!

Every CEO he knows all over the place is miserable!

3 things that make you hate your job

  1. Anonymity
    People that I worked for didn't know me or know about me. This comes from not being seen in the office, recognized at great accomplishments,
    >I don't care if you're a manager or the CEO, you won't like your job if people don't know you

When you take the time to know somebody, it means everything!

Good people don't leave good jobs where they are known.

What's more important, that first $500 bonus, or the email that said, "Hey, I heard your dad is sick?"

many times we don't do it, because we never did it before. It takes humility to start caring about people!

A doctor told his intern: get to know Carlos the cleaning guy and tell me something about him that I don't know.

If you aren't noticed, and you are anonymous, upwardly minister to your boss. They are probably anonymous and just pass it on.

  1. Irrelevance
    If you don't think that your job matters, you can't love your work.

God gave us an innate desire to love others. If you can't love others by having a job that matters, you die.

I lose all of my Christian Charity in an airport. I think Adolph Hitler was born and raised in an airport.

irrelevance – the happiest sports starts and rock stars have more relevance than their sport or their songs, they are involved in something else that makes them relevant

We don't want to admit that administrative assistants make our lives better.

When someone's job is to help us, we need to celebrate that. Thank people for it and tell them how they actually make your life better!

We have to remind each other why our job matters. If we find out somebody's job doesn't matter, it's ok, change their job.

  1. Immeasurement
    We have a need to asses if we are doing a good job. If our only measure comes from our boss, that is slavery. Athletes can see their score, they can see their time. If they are measured by how their boss feels, they are in a job that sucks.

People do better when they have a way to measure how they are doing. Qualitatively measurements, what is the point and what matters, how do we know if we're having a good day?

Don't measure number of people that come through the drive thru, you can't control that. Count how many people smile, you can control that.

At the end of the night, how many people in the drive through laughed?

Put something in place so that people can see when they are doing a good job.

When we as leaders give people a way to measure themselves, we lose control over them. That is the POINT! GIVE IT UP!

You can make enough money, you can top out and have enough money to be happy. Happiness in the workplace is what drives us even more. You can never have enough happiness in the workplace.

I can't imagine being a christ-like leader without knowing the people that work for us, for giving them a reason for working, and helping them to see their relevance.

Management is a ministry. It's part of what God has given us to serve in the world.

Bible Notes, Sermons church, community, Pat Lencioni, service

What He Did With Such Power

Dan Sullivan · March 9, 2013 ·

john 13:34

Bible Study, Handwritten Blog humble, humility, Jesus, John, Last supper, service

Love (ing) God. Love (ing) People. Series at CFC

Dan Sullivan · December 9, 2012 ·

I got to be a little part of a video at Christian Fellowship Church when their High School ministry was talking about serving and loving others. They titled it “Love (ing) God. Love (ing) People.” like the (red) style of theme. Here is the video

I also got to preach for part of this series, but I’ll post those notes in another entry.

At the Mission, Featured, video discipleship, Jesus, service, video

Comforting Strength: Sermon Notes from CFC 06102012

Dan Sullivan · June 10, 2012 ·

Here are my notes from Christian Fellowship Church on June 10th, 2012. You’ll notice that I forgot to take some blank paper.

I don’t know if the opening video will ever be online, but if it is, I’ll post about it too.

 

[meta notes] I posted this with photosnack after shooting it through my stop motion video app for fast stills. They are big and beautiful if you view them full screen, but so hard to read because I wrote all over my bulletin! No chick fil a for me! The fun part is to see how the notes ironically/serendipitously fit with the bulletin printing around them. (Like my note about isolation is surrounded with people’s emails, etc.)

 

Featured, Handwritten Blog 1 Corinthians, humility, Sermon notes, service, suffering

Giving and Receiving in Humility

Dan Sullivan · December 31, 2009 ·

John 13.8 “If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.”

There is a humility that is beyond the humility that somebody can tell me I need to have or that I can see and grasp. It’s beyond a virtue or anything that you can talk about, I think. Jesus doesn’t talk about being humble, whatever that means, but He always talked about the actions and the fruit of the humble.
humble yourself like a little child
the one who leads should be like one who serves
the greatest among you will be the servant of all
For he who is least among you all—he is the greatest.

If anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last, and the servant of all.

There is no way at all that you can muster up humility in yourself and BING! be humble.

So being humble is an activity. It can be shown with activity, though that is never the point, and it can be cultivated with activity. At the same time, it can be shown and cultivated by receiving activity. Peter was NOT going to let Jesus wash his feet, but to talk that way to Jesus was the opposite of humility and submission to Him. Peter really shows off our pride of self-inflicted devotion at the Last Passover. If he really cherished and honored Jesus, he would let Him do whatever He wanted. If he really believed that Jesus was always right and wise, then he wouldn’t have argued when Jesus said, “all of you are going to fall away,” but instead he jumped in with great declarations of devotion that Jesus knew he wouldn’t keep.

There is a humility in just letting Jesus do His thing with us. It’s not found in us trying to show Him (or anyone else) how devoted we are or how GLORIOUS we think He is. It’s a humility that let’s people serve you and looks for the way to serve others and never notices either way.

I’m not there yet, but Jesus is, and I’m following Him.

Bible Study discipleship, grace, humility, Jesus, leadership, service

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