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Mark Matheson is a visiting professor of business at “the BYU of the East Coast”, Southern Virginia University. Matheson received a doctorate in organizational leadership from the University of Phoenix, a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Utah. In 2010, Matheson was an Entrepreneur in Residence at The Willes Center for International Entrepreneurship at BYU-Hawaii. He worked for 25 years as a stock market analyst. He grew up in Utah, lived in seven different states during his childhood, and served his mission in Switzerland and France. He has an instagram page, @scriptureanalyst, that makes you see scriptures in a different way.
Highlights
8:30 Southern Virginia University mission statement- create leader servants 11:00 Being a proactive leader, not just serving the squeaky wheel 13:00 Using ideas of others not just the bishop 14:25 Return and report- how to hold people accountable 16:30 Being an effective servant leader- removing obstacles and providing resources 17:45 3 T’s- Time, Tools, Training 18:40 “People don’t know how much you know until they know how much you care” 21:00 Leadership by walking around 21:45 Two to-do lists 23:30 Less time being reactive and more time being proactive 24:45 Good interactive prayers 25:45 Book: It’s Your Ship, by D. Michael Abrashoff “Being the best darn ward in the stake” 29:00 Am I doing good for someone else today? 31:00 Example of Sunday school teacher going the extra mile 34:00 Balance between humble and meek 35:40 Accountability in church callings 37:00 Stephen R. Covey- emotional bank accounts- put deposits in followers’ bank accounts 40:00 A good leader takes more blame than credit 43:00 Giving permission for those you lead to be creative in their callings 46:00 Making church procedures better by doing them differently
Links
Instagram: Scripture Analyst Book: It’s Your Ship, by D. Michael Abrashoff
The podcast was way too short. Would have loved to hear more.
Kurt, another great podcast in the books. Thanks for putting this together. I really like the ideas about how to get creative juices flowing, and how to empower other ward members and free up the bottle-neck at the Bishop. I liked hearing how your guest is able to give such personalized attention to each of his students. What a wonderful model for us all to follow!
I am a little bit uncomfortable with the idea of trying to be ‘the best’ ward, or ‘the best’ EQ president or ‘the best’ ward council in the church. Let me see if I can explain why. I live in an area where the church is strong and well-established. There are dozens and dozens of great examples of every calling all around me. After decades of people trying to be the best -insert whichever calling you prefer- in the church we have a lot of unrealistic, and frankly unhealthy, expectations of ourselves and our leaders. For a Bishop in my area to try and be the best Bishop in the church, or even to set himself apart from other, excellent area bishops, he would need to quit his job, kiss his wife and kids good bye, and dedicate hours every day to his calling. And nobody wants that. I wonder if you could flesh-out your idea a bit. How can we strive to be the best, without building up a lot of unhealthy expectations over time? I really like Bishop Causse’s most recent conference talk in which he describes how his perceptions of success changed over his time as a stake president in France. At first he thought success was adding ward units, baptisms, getting a temple. But by the end he thought success was having spiritual experiences with the members.
Hi Stewart, Thanks for your comment. I just read this 5 years later. I guess I am NOT the best comment reader. I can’t really remember what I said back then, but I agree with you that we often set too high of expectations in the Church. Ubfortunately I have seen more complacency at the other end-few really try beyond mediocrity. Mark
Mark was my business admin professor.