CNLP 650 | Gavin Adams on Why Leading a Church is Harder Than Leading a Business, Overcoming Your Insecurity When Working With Gifted People, And Top Advice from Home Depot, Popeye's, and Coca Cola on Leading and Scaling Change
The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast
Carey Nieuwhof
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2024
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Gavin Adams, former Woodstock City Church Lead Pastor and entrepreneur, talks about why leading a church is harder than leading a business.
He also discusses overcoming your insecurity as a leader when working with gifted people and offers top advice from Home Depot, Popeye's, and Coca-Cola on leading and scaling change.
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| 0:00.0 | The Art of Leadership Network. |
| 0:03.0 | I walked into this with a tremendous amount of insecurity |
| 0:05.4 | that I didn't know was there |
| 0:07.1 | until the pressure cooker squeezes it out. |
| 0:10.3 | I didn't know how insecure I was until I stood on the platform to communicate after |
| 0:16.8 | our church had been listening to that guy for a while. |
| 0:21.8 | I will never forget the first time that he asked me to preach at North Point. |
| 0:26.7 | And you know, I heard the stories of people being, you know, chewed up and spit out by that platform in that stage and I get it |
| 0:35.4 | it's because of our own security it's not because of anything else but I mean my |
| 0:38.9 | first Sunday that I did that they gave me a mic pack and it's had had Andy's name |
| 0:42.4 | still on it. |
| 0:44.3 | And I was like, I do not need any more reminders, |
| 0:46.3 | you know. |
| 0:47.1 | But I will tell you. |
| 0:49.5 | It's so intimidating. |
| 0:50.6 | Any craziness? |
| 0:51.9 | And I, but I remember that first Sunday Carrie and all vulnerability, man, I so remember preaching at North Point and you know gosh I don't know how many tens of |
| 1:05.8 | thousands of people hear that you know because of their broad reach and I only |
| 1:10.2 | really cared about one person hearing the message who was by the way already going to |
| 1:14.9 | heaven and it didn't even matter that he heard it but all I cared about was what is A& you got to think. Welcome to the Carrie Newhoff Leadership Podcast. |
| 1:27.0 | It's Carrie here and I hope our time together today helps you thrive in life and |
| 1:30.8 | leadership and it's a privilege to do this with you and today I'm |
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