"Develop a healthy intolerance for those things that have the potential to impede your progress toward what could be and should be—those things God has put in your heart to do."

Senior Pastor, North Point Community Church Founder, North Point Ministries

Under the leadership of Andy Stanley, North Point Community Church in Alpharetta, Georgia, has become one of the largest and most innovative churches in the United States. Founded in 1995, the church has grown to three campuses and a weekly attendance of more than 22,000 people. They have also helped plant more than 20 strategic partner churches across North America. Stanley is a dynamic speaker and author whose books include Visioneering, Next Generation Leader, and Communicating for a Change. His latest volume, The Principle of the Path, explores a basic truth that can eliminate regret, as it helps to successfully move people from where they are to where they want to go.

"I love Leadership Summit, it's one of the only opportunities I get throughout the year to hear leaders from all over the world bring their perspective on what's happening in their current leadership context." - Andy Stanley, February 2010

The original source and inspiration for Andy Stanley's talk is Polarity Management: Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems - Barry Johnson (Batavia, NY: Human Resource Development Press, 1992).