Right Color, Wrong Culture Quotes

“Competence isn’t enough, there has to be the right culture as well.”
― Bryan Loritts, Right Color, Wrong Culture: The Type of Leader Your Organization Needs to Become Multiethnic

“The primary indicator light for a C2 is their social and relational resume.”
― Bryan Loritts, Right Color, Wrong Culture: The Type of Leader Your Organization Needs to Become Multiethnic

“The effective C2 preacher talks infinitely more about Jesus Christ than he does race and ethnicity. In fact, any remarks on race, a C2 leader will connect to the gospel of Jesus Christ.”
― Bryan Loritts, Right Color, Wrong Culture: The Type of Leader Your Organization Needs to Become Multiethnic

“Yes, which is why the number one rule in hiring a minority is that there has to be a person on the team who represents the demographic you’re going after.”
― Bryan Loritts, Right Color, Wrong Culture: The Type of Leader Your Organization Needs to Become Multiethnic

“1 Corinthians 9 passage. In verse 22, Paul used three words.” Peter picked up the marker and wrote the words, I have become. I have become. “These are very important words because what Paul was saying is that his ability to construct such an eclectic circle of friends was a learned skill, and the way that he learned it was by immersing himself into the social networks and environments of others.”
― Bryan Loritts, Right Color, Wrong Culture: The Type of Leader Your Organization Needs to Become Multiethnic

“C2s are people who have the unique ability to go from one culture to another, without compromising or losing who they are in the process.”
― Bryan Loritts, Right Color, Wrong Culture: The Type of Leader Your Organization Needs to Become Multiethnic

“I believe that it was the Greeks who said that great messages were composed of logos and pathos—content and passion.”
― Bryan Loritts, Right Color, Wrong Culture: The Type of Leader Your Organization Needs to Become Multiethnic

“When you hire a person, you don’t just hire their competencies, you also hire the sum total of who they are—competence, character, and culture. You don’t want to stop with can they do the job, but you want to ask, can they be what this job needs? That moves us into the culture territory.”
― Bryan Loritts, Right Color, Wrong Culture: The Type of Leader Your Organization Needs to Become Multiethnic

“That number falls from 7.5 percent to only 2.5 percent of the churches of Jesus Christ qualifying as multiethnic.”
― Bryan Loritts, Right Color, Wrong Culture: The Type of Leader Your Organization Needs to Become Multiethnic

“Sociologists don’t just throw around the term multiethnic when it comes to worshiping communities. They do have a benchmark, and it’s called the 80/20 rule. What this means is one ethnic group cannot make up more than 80 percent of a church or worshiping community.”
― Bryan Loritts, Right Color, Wrong Culture: The Type of Leader Your Organization Needs to Become Multiethnic

“sociological reason to become multiethnic. “It’s no secret our country is headed toward a new unprecedented reality. By 2050 for the first time in the history of our nation whites will become the majority minority. Or to phrase it another way, whites will become the minority for the first time since coming here centuries ago.”
― Bryan Loritts, Right Color, Wrong Culture: The Type of Leader Your Organization Needs to Become Multiethnic

“In the twenty-first century the difference between whites and minorities was that minorities are constantly aware of their unique ethnic lenses; to his white brothers and sisters, though, most of them did not consciously think of themselves as white. What Peter once thought was racism, he later realized was a naiveté that his friends needed to have exposed.”
― Bryan Loritts, Right Color, Wrong Culture: The Type of Leader Your Organization Needs to Become Multiethnic

“Peter understood that in a technology-driven age people no longer need to go to church for a test drive, they can do it right at home behind their computers. Podcasts and staff pictures speak more loudly than plastered vision statements.”
― Bryan Loritts, Right Color, Wrong Culture: The Type of Leader Your Organization Needs to Become Multiethnic

“it takes between five and seven years before the pastor becomes the pastor. Before that he’s just the preacher.”
― Bryan Loritts, Right Color, Wrong Culture: The Type of Leader Your Organization Needs to Become Multiethnic

“When it comes to building diverse teams, ethnicity is never enough. You can hire the right ethnicity, but the wrong culture.”
― Bryan Loritts, Right Color, Wrong Culture: The Type of Leader Your Organization Needs to Become Multiethnic