Willow Creek Association

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Featured Resources


*Session 1: Vision to Die For* Bill Hybels	*Session 3: The Heat of Responsibility* Floyd H. Flake	*Session 7: A Leader's Greatest Fear* John Ortberg


*Session 10: Whatever You Do, Inspire Me!* Bill Hybels	*REVEAL*	*2007 Team Edition*


*Holy Discontent*	*Living and Leading from Your Holy Discontent*	*Fast Forward*


*Leadership Library: Making Vision Stick*	Leadership Library: When Leadership and Discipleship Collide	*Tough Choices*

Session 1
Resources from Bill Hybels


*Holy Discontent*	*Living and Leading from Your Holy Discontent*	*Going Deeper Audio Series: A Vision to Die For: How Leaders Create Ownership*


Leadership Library: When Leadership and Discipleship Collide	*Just Walk Across the Room*	*Session 1: Vision to Die For* Bill Hybels


*Courageous Leadership* by Bill Hybels
*Just Walk Across the Room* campaign kit
*Living Beyond Myself* campaign kit
*Hope and Action* DVD kit by Bill Hybels and Lynne Hybels
*The Leader’s Edge* DVD or CD by Bill Hybels
*The Ultimate Sacrifice* DVD by Bill Hybels
*The Volunteer Revolution* by Bill Hybels
*Too Busy Not to Pray* by Bill Hybels
*Making Life Work* by Bill Hybels
*Rediscovering Church* by Lynne Hybels and Bill Hybels
*Fit to Be Tied* by Bill Hybels and Lynne Hybels
*Becoming a Contagious Christian* by Bill Hybels and Mark Mittelberg
*Descending into Greatness* by Bill Hybels with Rob Wilkins
*Honest to God?* by Bill Hybels
*Who You Are When No One’s Looking* by Bill Hybels
*Interactions* Bible study series by Bill Hybels with Kevin and Sherry Harney
*New Community* Bible study series by Bill Hybels with Kevin and Sherry Harney

Resources Related to Session 1


*Going Deeper Audio Series: A Vision to Die For: How Leaders Create Ownership*


*Leadership Library: Making Vision Stick* by Andy Stanley (Available in hardcover)
*The Leadership Summit on Vision, Mission and Strategy* (Available on CD or DVD)
*Leadership Summit 2003: Making Vision Stick* by Andy Stanley (Available on DVD, CD, or cassette)
*Visioneering* by Andy Stanley (Available in paperback)
*Vision Night 2006* message by Bill Hybels and Gene Appel (Available on cassette or CD)
*Vision Night 2003* message by Bill Hybels (Available on Mp3, transcript, cassette, or CD)
*Vision Night 2002* message by Bill Hybels (Available on cassette or transcript)
*Vision Night 2001* message by Bill Hybels (Available on cassette or transcript)
*These Things We Must Do* conference session by Bill Hybels (Available on CD or DVD)

Resources Related to Session Programming


*"Hey Jude"* by the Beatles
*"Healing Word"* by Holland Davis

Session 2
Resources from Carly Fiorina


Tough Choices


*Perfect Enough: Carly Fiorina and the Reinvention of Hewlett-Packard* by George Anders
Fiorina on *CEO Exchange* (Episode 205 DVD)

Session 3
Resources from Floyd H. Flake


The Way of the Bootstrapper	African American Church Management Handbook	Practical Virtues: Everyday Values and Devotions for African American Families


*Session 3: The Heat of Responsibility* Floyd H. Flake

Resources Related to Session 3


*The Five Dysfunctions of a Team* 2003 Leadership Summit session by Patrick Lencioni

Session 4
Resources from Marcus Buckingham


*Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance*	Now, Discover Your Strengths	*First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently*


*The One Thing You Need to Know: … About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success*


Buckingham's 2004 Leadership Summit session *"The One Thing You Need to Know"* (CD or DVD)

Resources Related to Session 4


*"Arts Conference 2006: A Closer Look at Your Strengths"* by Scott Vaudrey (CD)
"Leading from Your Strengths" Training Theme from www.buildingchurchleaders.com

Session 5
Resources from Michael E. Porter


*Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results*	*Competitive Strategy*	*Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance*


*Harvard Business Review* articles from www.harvardbusinessreview.com
*Can Japan Compete?* by Michael E. Porter, Hirotaka Takeuchi, Mariko Sakakibara
*On Competition* by Michael E. Porter
*Advantage Sweden* by Michael E. Porter, Orjan Solvell, Ivo Zander
*Upgrading New Zealand's Competitive Advantage* by Michael E. Porter, Graham T. Crocombe, Michael J. Enright
*Strategy: Seeking and Securing Competitive Advantage* by Cynthia A. Montgomery
*The Competitive Advantage of Nations* by Michael E. Porter
*Competition in Global Industries* by Michael E. Porter
*Cases in Competitive Strategy* by Michael E. Porter

Session 6
Resources Related to Colin Powell


*My American Journey*	*The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell*


*The Powell Principles* by Oren Harari
*Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell* by Karen DeYoung

Resources Related to Session 6


*Conflict: Having the Tough Conversations* Defining Moments Audio CD
*The Five Temptations of a CEO* by Patrick Lencioni

Resources Related to Session Programming


*Greatest Hymns* by Selah
*United We Stand* by Hillsong United
*The Best is Yet to Come* by Martha Munizzi

Session 7
Resources from John Ortberg


*When the Game is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box*	*It All Goes Back in the Box*	*Going Deeper Audio Series: A Leader's Greatest Fear: A Deeper Look at Shadow Mission*


*The Life You've Always Wanted*	*If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat*	*Session 7: A Leader's Greatest Fear* John Ortberg


*God is Closer Than You Think* by John Ortberg
*Love Beyond Reason* by John Ortberg
*Living the God Life* by John Ortberg

Additional Programming by Artist


*Fresh* by Sly and the Family Stone
*Colorblind* by Robert Randolph and the Family Band

Session 8
Resources from Richard Curtis


*The Girl in the Cafe*	*Notting Hill*

Resources Related to Session 8


*On the Move* by Bono
*Hope and Action* DVD Kit by Bill Hybels and Lynne Hybels
*Beyond Charity* by John M. Perkins
*The Skeptic's Guide to the Global AIDS Crisis* by Dale Hanson Bourke
*The Skeptic's Guide to Global Poverty* by Dale Hanson Bourke
*Holy Discontent* by Bill Hybels

Session 9
Resources from Jimmy Carter


*An Hour Before Daylight*	Leading a Worthy Life: Sunday Mornings in Plains: Bible Study with Jimmy Carter	*Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis*


*Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid* by Jimmy Carter
*The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter's Journey to the Nobel Peace Prize* by Douglas G. Brinkley
*The Presidency of James Earl Carter, Jr.* by Burton I. Kaufman
*Why Not the Best?* by Jimmy Carter
*A Government as Good as Its People* by Jimmy Carter
*Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President* by Jimmy Carter
*Negotiation: The Alternative to Hostility* by Jimmy Carter
*The Blood of Abraham: Insights into the Middle East* by Jimmy Carter
*Everything to Gain: Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life* by Jimmy Carter
*An Outdoor Journal* by Jimmy Carter
*Turning Point: A Candidate, a State, and a Nation Come of Age* by Jimmy Carter
*Talking Peace: A Vision for the Next Generation* by Jimmy Carter
*Always a Reckoning and Other Poems* by Jimmy Carter
*The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer* by Jimmy Carter
*Living Faith* by Jimmy Carter
*Sources of Strength: Meditations on Scripture for a Living Faith* by Jimmy Carter
*The Virtues of Aging* by Jimmy Carter
*Christmas in Plains: Memories* by Jimmy Carter
*The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture* by Jimmy Carter
*The Hornet's Nest* by Jimmy Carter
*Sharing Good Times* by Jimmy Carter
*Faith and Freedom: The Christian Challenge for the World* by Jimmy Carter
*Measuring Our Success: Sunday Mornings in Plains* by Jimmy Carter

Resources Related to Session 9

*"The Audacity of Love, Part 2"* message by Bill Hybels (Available on CD, MP3, cassette, and PDF)
*"Why Poverty?"* message by Bill Hybels (Available on CD, MP3, cassette, and PDF)
*"Why War?"* message by Bill Hybels (Available on CD, MP3, cassette, and PDF)
*"The Life Cycle of a Leader"* Leadership Summit 2006 talk by Bill Hybels (Available on CD and DVD)
*"The Leadership Summit on Developing Leaders"* (Available on CD)

Session 10
Resources from Bill Hybels


*Holy Discontent*	*Living and Leading from Your Holy Discontent*	*Going Deeper Audio Series: A Vision to Die For: How Leaders Create Ownership*


Leadership Library: When Leadership and Discipleship Collide	*Just Walk Across the Room*	*Session 10: Whatever You Do, Inspire Me!* Bill Hybels


*Courageous Leadership* by Bill Hybels
*Just Walk Across the Room* campaign kit
*Living Beyond Myself* campaign kit
*Hope and Action* DVD kit by Bill Hybels and Lynne Hybels
*The Leader’s Edge* DVD or CD by Bill Hybels
*The Ultimate Sacrifice* DVD by Bill Hybels
*The Volunteer Revolution* by Bill Hybels
*Too Busy Not to Pray* by Bill Hybels
*Making Life Work* by Bill Hybels
*Rediscovering Church* by Lynne Hybels and Bill Hybels
*Fit to Be Tied* by Bill Hybels and Lynne Hybels
*Becoming a Contagious Christian* by Bill Hybels and Mark Mittelberg
*Descending into Greatness* by Bill Hybels with Rob Wilkins
*Honest to God?* by Bill Hybels
*Who You Are When No One’s Looking* by Bill Hybels
*Interactions* Bible study series by Bill Hybels with Kevin and Sherry Harney
*New Community* Bible study series by Bill Hybels with Kevin and Sherry Harney

Resources Related to Session 10


*Please Inspire Me* message by Nancy Ortberg
*The Leadership Summit on Vision, Mission and Strategy* Available on CD or DVD
*Communicating for a Change: Seven Keys to Irresistible Communication* by Andy Stanley & Lane Jones
*The Future of Leadership* by Warren Bennis, Gretchen Spreitszer & Thomas Cummings