Harry Truman is credited with the powerful leadership axiom, \u201cIt\u2019s amazing what can be accomplished when no one cares who gets the credit.\u201d<\/p>\n
Today I saw this lived out again with Todd Petkau and the team at Riverwood Church Community in Winnipeg.<\/p>\n
Riverwood has been our Global Leadership Summit partner for two years, and each year their facility sells out weeks in advance. Winnipeg as a host city has been a sell-out seven years in a row. Even though Riverwood has managed to squeeze in close to 500 guests for this event, they know that in a larger venue the attendance could be far more.<\/p>\n
I met with Todd and his team, to both debrief the 2010 Summit and to look forward to the 2011 event.<\/p>\n
For lunch he suggested we include Victor Neufeld, senior pastor of the nearby North Kildonan Mennonite Brethren Church. And it was here over lunch that these two leaders brought me in on a plan that has \u201cKingdom win\u201d written all over it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat would you think,\u201d Todd began, \u201cif the Summit in Winnipeg were to be driven<\/em> by one church, but held<\/em> in a different church?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhat do you have in mind?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWell,\u201d Todd continued, \u201cour church appreciates being able to drive the Summit in Winnipeg. But we know our facility isn\u2019t large enough to handle the growth potential we see. So we wondered if we could work with our friends up at North Kildonan Church\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n Victor broke into the conversation. \u201cOur facility is perfect, I think. We seat about 800, we have a lot more space, and we\u2019d love to make this available for the Summit. We\u2019ll serve anyway you\u2019d like us to, but we\u2019d like our friends at Riverwood to take the lead on the event.\u201d<\/p>\n Todd chimed in again. \u201cSo, could this work?\u201d<\/p>\n All I could think was, \u201cWith leaders like this, with such genuine humble hearts, how could it not <\/em>work?\u201d Clearly, these two leaders, and their churches, simply want to throw a serving towel over their arms and see to it that as many leaders as possible in southern Manitoba have a great Summit experience.<\/p>\n I\u2019m writing these thoughts as I fly from Winnipeg on to Halifax to meet with more leaders. And as I travel I\u2019m reflecting on my own leadership, reminding myself to keep relentlessly focused on Kingdom-outcomes, not on whether or not my name happens to be attached to any particular accomplishments.<\/p>\n Because after all; it\u2019s amazing what can be accomplished when no one cares who gets the credit.<\/p>\n How do you maintain your \u201cKingdom focus\u201d in your leadership?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Harry Truman is credited with the powerful leadership axiom, \u201cIt\u2019s amazing what can be accomplished when no one cares who gets the credit.\u201d Today I saw this lived out again with Todd Petkau and the team at Riverwood Church Community in Winnipeg. Riverwood has been our Global Leadership Summit partner for two years, and each…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,90,4,6,7,87],"tags":[392,395,386,104,394,390,387,393,389,391,388],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action","category-canadian","category-community","category-joy","category-leadership","category-leadership-summit","tag-churches","tag-kingdom-focus","tag-kingdom-first-leadership","tag-leaders","tag-manitoba","tag-north-kildonan-church","tag-riverwood-church-community","tag-serving","tag-the-global-leadership-summit2","tag-well-serve-anyway","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}