Top Ten Quotes: The Multiplication Effect
Mac Lake is a leader among leaders. Having worked as a church planter, a megachurch staff member, and a founder of a church planting network, he knows a thing or two about developing others and raising up new leaders.
That’s one of the reasons I enjoyed The Multiplication Effect: Building a Leadership Pipeline that Solves Your Leadership Shortage. Mac knows of what he writes, and he was able to help me put a framework around some of our current pinch points.
Here are my top ten favorite quotes:
- We don’t start with the position that needs to be filled; we start with the person that can be developed.
- Leadership development should be an extension of a church’s discipleship strategy because leadership development is about discipling leaders.
- Anytime a church grows, leadership deficiencies will be exposed as the quality of care goes down.
- If a leader’s beliefs and behaviors have not changed, then we’ve not done leadership development.
- It’s not a win when you produce a leader. It’s a win when the newly produced leader produces a leader.
- …if we don’t have shared expectations with our leaders, we will have shared frustrations.
- There’s no way you can have an exponential multiplication of new leaders if you have bottlenecked the process by using only one person.
- …programs don’t develop leaders, leaders develop leaders.
- The greater the confidence I put in those I mentor and lead, the greater confidence they will have in themselves.
- “It takes four generations of reproduction to build a culture of leadership development.” (Muriithi Wanjau)
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Just finished it myself a few weeks ago–so good!