Leadership Axioms: Powerful Leadership Proverbs
Previously titled: Axiom: Powerful Leadership Proverbs
Bill Hybels





Format: Paperback, 224pp.
ISBN: 9780310495963
Publisher: Zondervan
Pub. Date: Reprint Edition April 3, 2012

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Description and Reviews
From The Publisher:

The best leaders not only lead well but also reflect on their leadership long enough and thoughtfully enough to articulate the philosophies that cause them to do so. Whether serving in the marketplace or in ministry, as executives or rank-and-file employees, as salaried staff or volunteer servants, good leaders can pinpoint the rationale for their actions and decisions with the ease of reciting their home address.

In Axiom: Powerful Leadership Proverbs, author Bill Hybels divulges the God-given convictions that have dictated his leadership strategy for more than three decades as senior pastor of Willow Creek Community Church. Oriented toward four key leadership categories …

1. 1. Vision and strategy (“Promote Shameless Profitability,” “Take a Flyer”)
2. Teamwork and communication (“Obi-Wan Kenobi Isn’t for Hire,” “Disagree without Drawing Blood”)
3. Activity and assessment (“Develop a Mole System,” “Sweat the Small Stuff”)
4. Personal integrity (“Admit Mistakes, and Your Stock Goes Up,” “Fight for Your Family”)

…Axiom brokers accessible wisdom from one leader’s journey, as well as emboldens you to nail down the reasons why you lead like you lead.


About the Author

Bill Hybels is the founding and senior pastor of Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois. Willow Creek’s pioneering ministries have made it one of the most-attended churches in North America with an outreach that extends worldwide. Hybels has authored more than twenty books, including Fit to Be Tied and Rediscovering Church (with his wife Lynne), Too Busy Not to Pray, Courageous Leadership, Just Walk Across the Room, and Holy Discontent.


Table of Contents

	Foreword by Henry Cloud, PhD	9
	Introduction	11
	Category 1: Vision and Strategy
1	Language Matters	17
2	Make the Big Ask	21
3	You’re Always in a Season	24
4	Explosive Growth Equals Dramatic Meltdowns	27
5	Vision: Paint the Picture Passionately	29
6	Bold Move	32
7	An Owner or a Hireling	34
8	Hire Tens	38
9	The Fair Exchange Value	40
10	The Value of a Good Idea	42
11	Build a Boiler Fund	46
12	Take a Flyer	49
13	Vision Leaks	52
14	Values Need Heat	54
15	The Dangers of Incrementalism	56
16	Six-by-Six Execution	58
17	Only God	61
18	Plus-Side/Minus-Side	63
19	Institutionalize Key Values	67
20	This Is Church	68
	Category 2: Teamwork and Communication
21	The Three Cs	75
22	Never Say Someone’s No for Them	78
23	First Tested	80
24	DNA Carriers	83
25	No Eleventh-Hour Surprises, Please	86
26	How Are You Doing . . . Really?	88
27	Get the Right People around the Table	91
28	Know Who’s Driving	93
29	Speed of the Leader, Speed of the Team	94
30	Pay Attention to Greetings and Goodbyes	96
31	Deliver the Bad News First	99
32	The Tunnel of Chaos	101
33	Just Say It!	104
34	Disagree without Drawing Blood	106
35	Umbrella of Mercy	108
36	Help Me Understand	110
37	Leaders Call Fouls	112
38	Real-Time Coaching	115
39	Just to Be Clear	117
40	Give Me an A, B, or C	120
41	Keep Short Accounts	123
42	We Got to Do This Together!	126
	Category 3: Activity and Assessment
43	A Blue-Sky Day	131
44	The Bias toward Action	134
45	Performance Buys Freedom	137
46	Sweat the Small Stuff	139
47	Doable Hard versus Destructive Hard	142
48	Develop a Mole System	145
49	Is It Sustainable?	147
50	Don’t Screw Up	150
51	SOSs	152
52	Facts Are Your Friends	155
53	Find the Critic’s Kernel of Truth	159
54	Every Soldier Deserves Competent Command	161
55	Brain Breaks	164
56	Speed versus Soul	166
57	Did We Do Any Learning?	168
58	Create Your Own Finish Lines	169
59	Let’s Debrief	172
60	Pay Now, Play Later	174
61	Are We Still Having Fun?	175
62	Never Beat the Sheep	177
	Category 4: Personal Integrity
63	Obi-Wan Kenobi Isn’t for Hire	183
64	What Life Are You Waiting For?	187
65	Lead with All Diligence	190
66	To the Core of My Being	192
67	Always Take the High Road	194
68	Read All You Can	196
69	Lead Something	198
70	Arrive Early or Not at All	200
71	I’d Never Do This for Money	201
72	We Need Us All	203
73	Excellence Honors God and Inspires People	206
74	Admit Mistakes, and Your Stock Goes Up	209
75	Fight for Your Family	212
76	Finish Well	214
	Acknowledgments	217
	Notes	218

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