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excellent business strategy, you might
need to spend more time strategizing
rather than trying to build the airplane
while you’re flying and then watching
parts of your life and career fall off and
hurtle toward the ground. Some of the
most successful people I know schedule
dedicated “thinking time” into their
calendars. They refuse to be distracted
by the allure of progress. Stopping to
think can feel like doing nothing. It can
feel like a waste of time. But successful
people know they need to slow down
and work on what matters.
Something great leaders learn is that
process can be more important than
progress. Sometimes you must throw out
the playbook and do things differently
for the sake of progress. But there are
also seasons of trusting the process, of
working on the small stuff that matters
to set you up for your next season of
progress.
Taken from How to Lead in a World of Distraction by Clay
Scroggins. Copyright © 2019 by Clay Scroggins. Used by
permission of Zondervan. www.zondervan.com.
Clay
Scroggins
Clay Scroggins is the lead pastor
of Buckhead Church, providing
visionary and directional leadership
for the church’s staff and attendees.
As one of the largest campuses
of North Point Ministries (ranked
by Outreach Magazine in 2016 as
the largest church in America),
Buckhead
Church
averages
over 9,000 people in weekly
attendance. Clay holds a degree
in industrial engineering from
Georgia Tech as well as a master’s
degree and a doctorate with an
emphasis in online church from
Dallas Theological Seminary. He
lives in Atlanta with his wife, Jenny,
and their five children.
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