Willow Creek in Rancho Cucamonga

Seriously...who got away with naming a place Cucamonga? That had to of gone through some kind of board and at some point everyone said..."yeah, that sounds cool!"
Anyways, I found myself today at a satellite video leadership conference that Willow Creek puts together. Sometimes it's hard for me to wade through the production and money that it takes to pull off what they pull off but they had a lot of great things to say about leadership. It's cool because they have pastors and professionals speak so you get a lot of perspectives. The last guy to share today was Marcus Buckingham and he was great. He talked about developing your strengths instead of focusing on your weaknesses. He talked about parents that have a kid bringing home report cards with 2 A's, B, C, and an F. When polled most parents said the grade they focused on was the F. He said if you find out what they loved about the subjects that they got A's in and how they studied for those classes and encouraged them in the things they were great in that it would help out in the subjects that they were struggling in. I can't explain it all but I got a lot from what he had to say. He talked about how our personalities tend to stay the same from a young age. We can change our values and our behavior but our personalities are pretty steady. He talked about his 6 year old that is super competitive and he will probably be competitive his whole life. He said the goal isn't to tell him what's wrong with being competitive but to channel that aggressiveness towards something positive. Sorry...probably had to be there but I thought I would just share a couple things.