Leaders Don't Wait Until January

What It Covers

Craig Groeschel guides leaders through six critical year-end evaluations: successes, misses, patterns, people, priorities, and self-assessment. He emphasizes starting improvements immediately rather than waiting for January first to implement necessary changes.

Key Questions Answered

• •Success Analysis: Document specific factors behind wins to reproduce them. Groeschel's church discovered campus growth depends not just on leadership but on team pairings, campus age, community demographics, and parking capacity—over thirty documented contributing factors.
• •Pattern Recognition: What happens once is circumstance; what repeats is culture. Five missed deadlines reveal accountability gaps. Services running six minutes late became a pattern requiring intervention because what you allow, you endorse, and boundaries create excellence through artificial constraints.
• •Resource Allocation: Focus determines future outcomes. Leaders struggle with focus, not passion. Allocate limited time, energy, money, and attention toward highest-impact activities rather than letting whoever screams loudest claim resources. Busyness does not equal effectiveness in driving organizational results.
• •Self-Evaluation: Identify the one thing you wanted to change last year but avoided. Growth starts with ruthless honesty, not excuses. Areas ignored privately eventually hurt publicly. Discipline in difficult areas like diet creates keystone habits that trigger discipline across work and relationships.