Catalyst – Day 2
Tim Sanders
Day 2 of speakers at Catalyst started with a guy named Tim Sanders. He’s the author of a book called Saving The World At Work. He had some great thoughts about making a difference every day, being incarnational wherever we are at. Here are a few quotes from him.
- You create abundance by giving, not by consuming.
- Good is the new great. (Which made me question if I should really try to be great like Jim Collins suggested. Very confusing. Just kidding by the way.)
- Tell your people to take their values to work.
- What you learn on Sunday makes you a rock star on Monday.
- If not you, who? If not now, when?
Dave Ramsey
Man, this dude is fiery. For some reason I was expecting some chill quiet guy, but I think Anne Jackson’s twitter said it best when she said he sounded like an angry Dr. Phil. It was actually pretty awesome. Rachel and I started reading his book Total Money Makeover right after we got married. When I saw him on the list I assumed he’d be talking about money, but this year he shared some leadership principles from his organization. Specifically the five enemies to unity. Those being:
- Poor communication
- Gossip
- Gossip is complaining to anyone about anything they can’t change.
- Some of the biggest gossips I’ve ever met do it in the name of a prayer request.
- Unresolved disagreements
- Happen when a leader doesn’t know they exist or avoids confrontation.
- An indecisive leader is by definition, not a leader.
- Nobody ever killed anything by saying, “Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim…”
- Lack of shared purpose
- Caused when a leader doesn’t restate the goal, the vision and mission early and often.
- Start by having a shared purpose in your family.
- Sanctioned incompetence
- Team members eventually become demotivated when someone else on the team can’t or won’t do their job and a leader will not take action.
Of course after his talk on leadership there was a quick interview regarding the current economic situation. Some great insights there as well of course.
- There is a spirit of fear being cast by media and politicians that is resulting in bad decisions, including the most recent legislation that was passed.
- The world should be able to look at us for hope and security but we’re just as scared.
- If you had been handling your money by God’s principles as we talked about last year, you wouldn’t have anything to worry about.
- Don’t buy gold!!! The last time a fallen economy turned to the gold system after collapse was the Roman Empire.
- Keep putting money in your 401K. If you take it out now, you will feel pretty stupid in a few years.
Great stuff from both these guys. Notes from the last 3 speakers coming soon so we can move on with blog life.
