In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins and Eric Geiger are joined by Levi Lusko, the lead pastor of Fresh Life church in Montana and Utah. You may also know Levi from his books Swipe Right and Through the Eyes of a Lion. During this conversation, they talk about building a leadership pipeline, setting lead and lag metrics, and developing leaders in your church.

BEST QUOTES

“Our greatest emphasis organizationally is building our leadership pipeline so that we not only have the crop of people for the job today, but so that we have the systems in place that will create the people for the hires tomorrow.”

“Everybody you need for every position is probably at your church.”

“I bet God has probably put within your organization who you need.”

“Your people will not be developed unless you do it.”

“We want to take active steps to develop our current leadership quotient and then casting the vision for everybody to be a multiplier.”

“If I was hit by a school bus tomorrow, who would do this job?”

“You can’t just say let’s win. You need to establish some lead measures that will produce the win.”

“It is so easy to be a critic of your own work.”

“I would tell my 20 year old self that this is going to hurt more than you think it will, but God will do more than you think he can.”

“Think about scalability and your leadership pipeline issue sooner rather than later.”

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

Swipe Right by Levi Lusko

Through the Eyes of a Lion by Levi Lusko

The Great Bridge by David McCullough

The 4 Disciplines of Execution by Chris McChesney

Passion Conference