Sublime

Gil Rendle, a former senior consultant with the Alban Institute, has provided another helpful way for us to view our congregations. He looks at tenure of membership in the congregation and notes that some are long-tenured members (more than 20 years), some are mid-tenured (between 10 and 20 years), and others are short-tenured (less than 10 years).

The individual’s incentives must be aligned with the group’s goals.To

elevate people who put the mission above their ego—and prioritize team cohesion over personal glory.

Andy Stanley, Johnny Carson, Howard Hendricks, Ronald Reagan, Billy Graham,

Bakke would often introduce AES’s management practices to the new group of colleagues by asking them what assumptions owners and managers of a typical factory hold about their workers.