1. Pieces of the Puzzle Leadership in the 21 st Century

2. STANDARD SPEED SOLVING ONE-HANDED!! BLINDFOLDED!!!!

3. My friend Hal

4. www.whatsinthepuzzle.com Wabi-Sabi learning to live gracefully with imperfection Saints & Sinners – Len Sweet Tortured Wonders – Rodney Clapp Beautiful Wreck – Shawn Mullins Beautiful Mess – Rick McKinley Messy Spirituality – Mike Yaconelli

5. www.whatsinthepuzzle.com Wabi-Sabi not an excuse for: Sloppiness Laziness Not doing your best Not striving for excellence

6. www.whatsinthepuzzle.com Wiki A collaborative website whose content can be edited by anyone who has access to it. Wikipedia Wikiletics Wikinomics – the more you share, the more you win

7. www.whatsinthepuzzle.com Wiki a subset of the OPEN SOURCE revolution Linux Creative Commons Tropical Disease Initiative

8. www.whatsinthepuzzle.com Wiki The Wisdom of Crowds –None of us is as smart as all of us. –None of us is as stupid as all of us. “Groups become great only when everyone in them, leaders and members alike, is free to do his or her absolute best.” Warren Bennis & Patricia Biederman Organizing Genius

9. www.whatsinthepuzzle.com Wiki for the church means… Everyone can contribute But only if we’re not concerned about our ROI – wikiphiles contribute because they are passionate about their subject “Beware of the scribes…”

10. www.whatsinthepuzzle.com Wiki Wiki = Quicki Quicki The FAST bus from the airport “Incrementalism is innovation’s worst enemy.” Nicholas Negroponte (MIT) “We have a strategic plan; it’s called doing things. Herb Kelleher (Southwest Airlines) Hare = 1; Tortoise = 0 It’s a HARE-Y world. Tom Peters

11. www.whatsinthepuzzle.com Web everybody knows this! Websites Email

12. www.whatsinthepuzzle.com Web 2.0 Connexity –Interconnected –Interdependent Smart Mobs – Swarms (Howard Rheingold) Social Networks –MySpace; Facebook –Flickr –Blogs –Second Life

13. www.whatsinthepuzzle.com Web 2.0 for the church… Blogs – not just for the preacher – youth groups – small groups – Sunday school classes – administrative teams – committees

14. www.whatsinthepuzzle.com Web 2.0 for the church… Outreach tools – blogs – myspace – email lists/blasts – podcasts of worship/sermons

15. www.whatsinthepuzzle.com Web 2.0 for the church… Get viral – Snakes on a Plane – buzz marketing – infectious The Christian faith is the “good infection” - C.S. Lewis

16. www.whatsinthepuzzle.com WOW!!! What’s your WOW factor? What sets you apart from the crowd? What can you do well that nobody else can do? What are you willing to die for? What is it about this church’s experience of Jesus Christ that the world cannot live without knowing?

17. www.whatsinthepuzzle.com WOW!!! Positively Deviant Behavior Positive – Builds UP, doesn’t tear DOWN Deviant – off the beaten path, under the radar Behavior – not words, not beliefs, but action It's not some game i play It's in my DNA It's what I do - Donald Fagen

18. www.whatsinthepuzzle.com WOW!!! Positively Deviant Behavior Don’t waste time trying to fix what’s wrong Spend an ENORMOUS amount of time discovering your strengths (spiritual gifts!) FOCUS on what’s right and build on it

19. www.whatsinthepuzzle.com WOW!!! Positively Deviant Behavior “Whenever anything is being accomplished, I have learned, it is being done by a monomaniac with a mission.” - Peter Drucker

20. www.whatsinthepuzzle.com WOW!!! Positively Deviant Behavior "Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well preserved piece, but to skid across the line broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out, leaking oil, shouting … ‘GERONIMO!’” - Bill McKenna, professional motorcycle racer (Cycle magazine)

21. www.whatsinthepuzzle.com Write What story are you telling? Once upon a time… It was a dark and stormy night… We set out on our journey…

22. www.whatsinthepuzzle.com Write a compelling story the effective communication of a story.” “A key – perhaps the key – to leadership is the effective communication of a story.” —Howard Gardner, Leading Minds: An Anatomy of Leadership

23. www.whatsinthepuzzle.com Write a compelling story “You don’t get the privilege of deciding what other people will think.” Seth Godin – Small is the New Big You do have the privilege of deciding what story people will hear about your church.

24. www.whatsinthepuzzle.com Write a compelling story “If people aren't happy with the story you're spreading, the problem is not with the people; it's with the story.” Seth Godin – Small is the New Big

25. www.whatsinthepuzzle.com Write a KINGDOM story It’s a story about God and people It’s a story about wabi-sabi, about saints & sinners It’s a story about wiki connections; everyone has a place in this story It’s a story about web 2.0 – The book of Acts is viral It’s a story with a huge WOW factor!

26. Is it IN you??? Is it IN you??? Exodus 3:1-20

27. It IS in you!!!