I am writing like a #2 pencil these days trying to hit a writing deadline, but it feels like I'm coming out of the writing forest.
My next book is for leaders and I'm trying to narrow it down to seven dimensions of right-brain leadership. Just finished chapters on two right-brain capacities: disrupting routines and recognizing opporutnities. I'm working on exceeding expectations next.
My modus operandi as a writer is to say old things in new ways. There are a million books on leadership, but I think the right-brain angle is a unique angle. This book is going to be a fun combination of theology, neurology, and futurology. I'm hoping readers think: I've never thought about it that way before.
I want my writing to be like a really enjoyable conversation--some deep thoughts combined with a few belly laughs.
This particular book is really birthed out of one of my core convictions: the church ought to be the most creative place on the planet. Creativity isn't optional. Not if we're serious about loving God with all of our minds. There are only two ways to lead: out of memory or out of imagination. Either memory will overtake imagination or imagination will overtake memory. Leading out of memory is repeating the past. Leading out of imagination is creating the future.
Imagine a generation of leaders with sanctified imaginations giving God everything they've got.
Is it just me or is that an awesome thought?
My next book is for leaders and I'm trying to narrow it down to seven dimensions of right-brain leadership. Just finished chapters on two right-brain capacities: disrupting routines and recognizing opporutnities. I'm working on exceeding expectations next.
My modus operandi as a writer is to say old things in new ways. There are a million books on leadership, but I think the right-brain angle is a unique angle. This book is going to be a fun combination of theology, neurology, and futurology. I'm hoping readers think: I've never thought about it that way before.
I want my writing to be like a really enjoyable conversation--some deep thoughts combined with a few belly laughs.
This particular book is really birthed out of one of my core convictions: the church ought to be the most creative place on the planet. Creativity isn't optional. Not if we're serious about loving God with all of our minds. There are only two ways to lead: out of memory or out of imagination. Either memory will overtake imagination or imagination will overtake memory. Leading out of memory is repeating the past. Leading out of imagination is creating the future.
Imagine a generation of leaders with sanctified imaginations giving God everything they've got.
Is it just me or is that an awesome thought?
3 Comments:
Nahh.. it's just you. (Haha). I love it. Anything that challenges me, convicts me, and makes me look at things through a lens that perhaps I have not yet considered is always welcome. I know for me, in my pursuit to live like Jesus, I can use all the help I can get. :)
Sounds Like an awesome book and I can't wait to get my hands on it.
I feel it is about time someone covered this area. So much of church today is a little like reinventing the wheel. You know the old saying "there is nothing new under the sun" So many church leaders just regurgetate a copy of someone elses model of ministry versus coming up with something so unique that it just blows the socks of believers and unbelievers alike.
I talked a little about this in a blog I wrote called Short Supply of Leaders. I basically said that there needs to be more of a collaboration among the staff and Sr. Pastor in an effort to drive creativity throughout the whole of the organization.
That is why I love what you guys do up there in D.C. and it pushes me to be creativity and say God what if you really do want to create a new thing.
I mean come on it not like the church as a whole in America is growing maybe it is time to so something from the right-side of the brain.
Mark that sounds like a great book. If it's even half as good as In A Pit With A Lion On a Snowy day then It's going to be great.
I look forward to it's release.
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