Are we saying that we can’t borrow anything from other organizational worlds where leadership, management, technology and innovation are being manifest?

I recently learned a great deal about leading a church from someone who has never led one.

Jack Welch, the salty former CEO of GE, sat down for an interview with Bill Hybels, senior pastor of Willow Creek Community Church, for the 2010 Leadership Summit and served up more truth and wisdom in 30 minutes than most seminary classes give over a semester. http://bit.ly/925H8Q

Some of you just had an aneurism.

Hang with me, even if you’re on life-support.

There is a deep-seated feeling among some that embracing technology, innovation and best business practices are inherently wrong – and even dangerous – for the church.

“The church isn’t a business” is a common refrain, and the line “Pastor as CEO” is a label of derision. The prevailing idea is that the church is an altogether different kind of thing than a business, with different values, structure and mission. Even further, that borrowing anything from the corporate world is inherently compromising.

Some of that is fair. The church isn’t a business. It has a business side to it, but it’s not a business. And the pastor is not merely a CEO. There are CEOish duties and responsibilities which increase with a church’s size, but that is only one slice of their role.

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