Last week, some of our Truth At Work groups watched Bill Hybels interviewing Jim Collins, author of Good to Great and pictured above. This interview took place at the 2006 Willow Creek Leadership Summit.Collins had some incredible stuff to share about what organizations can do to be great.
However, one thing in the interview stuck out to me more than any other thing. At that point in his life, Collins had been going through a spiritual awakening of sorts and he was beginning to embrace Christianity. When asked about this by Hybels, Collins replied that his journey had been helped greatly by his personal board of advisors.
First off, the fact that he had a personal board was impressive to me and a great lesson to us all to not do life alone.
Second, he went on to say that he received some of the best advice from one of his advisors who said, “Jim, you spend too much time trying to be interesting. Why don’t you spend more time being interested?”
Wow. Great advice.
Dale Carnegie said that the best way to attract friends is to show interest in others. That is also a great way to show the love of Christ!
Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.
Philippians 2:4
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