Craig Groeschel

You want to be in the room.

You may...

trust and empower them, but you're in the room discussing with them.

And then sometimes there's things that just won't move without you.

You gotta get involved and say, yeah, I'm needed to break through this barrier to get things moving.

So what are you doing?

You're managing altitude and attention.

And what you're going to do is you're going to lead intentionally.

You're going to rise when you can and dive when you must.

Rise as often as possible and then get involved when you have to.

Let's talk about the second challenging lesson that I learned.

And this was difficult because I didn't see it coming until it was a little bit late and I had to make major adjustments.

I used to think that the best leaders always had the best plans.

We're going to have strategic plans, detailed long-term plans.

I liked charts, projections.

I started with binders and colored tabs, and then later on it was stuff on the wall.

But here's what I've learned is this.

Number two is you want to plan lightly and prepare thoroughly.

Plan lightly and prepare thoroughly.

Honestly, this will be different advice than you'll learn in MBA classes a lot of times.