What an amazing two days!!! I am ready to tackle some big dreams and move forward on a big vision. The Global Leadership Summit never fails to bring advice, wisdom, and practical tools to move forward and grow in your leadership. Next year-don’t miss it!
My three big takeaways from today are:
- Hard conversations do not have to equal broken relationships, they can lead to intimacy
- Remember-the message is sacred, the method is not. Stand in the Gap!
- Christ is enough to fulfill all He has called me to do
Joseph Grenny-Mastering the Art of Crucial Conversations
- The power of the group is a function of the purity of its motives
- Are there a few moments of disproportionate influence?
- Anytime you find yourself stuck, stop and ask: What crucial conversation are we not holding or not holding well?
- Best way to avoid crucial conversations is to have a meaningless life
- When conversations turn from casual to crucial the irony is that when it matters most, we tend to do our worst
- There is a God-ordained purpose for crucial conversations
- You can talk it out or you can act it out
- Crucial conversations are either a pit or a path
- Crucial conversations can become an acceleration of intimacy
- Focus on the crucial conversations and have them become the path, not the pit
- The vital behavior that enables most any positive organizational outcome is candor at moments of acute emotional and political risk
- Human connection accelerates our growth as human beings
- People never get defensive about what you’re saying, they become defensive because of why they think you’re saying it
- The myth that we can’t tell the truth and keep a friend is at the heart at what keeps us from achieving our potential
Erica Ariel Fox- Winning from Within
- We get in our way and we miss out on some of life’s most meaningful opportunities because we can’t negotiate with ourselves
- Have you ever said yes when you wanted to say no?
- A developmental path for a leader is to identify your key and consistent performance gap and systematically close them so there isn’t a difference between how you love and lead and how you could do it at your best
- When we look at scans of your brain each one of you is more like an orchestra than a soloist
- Look for the dream beneath the dream
- Is there a dream in me that I have left behind?
- Can you articulate a business case for the morally correct action you hope to bring about?
- It is much more difficult to lead effectively if people feel like every interaction I have with you is a transaction
- Sometimes telling a hard truth and telling it lovingly is the right thing to do
- Find some places in your life where you are saying yes today and start saying thanks, but no
Don Flow- A Grander Vision
- Work is place that Christ has called me to
- Leaders must be truthful and graceful
- Seek the good of others before we seek the good of ourselves
- The culture of an organization is a powerful current that shapes the lives of people in it
- We can re-weave the frayed fabric of our world into the beautiful tapestry it was meant to be
- A person has intrinsic dignity and value regardless of what they do
- In our company there are no little people or insignificant people
- Confident challenge without confidence creates fear, but challenge without confidence creates complacency
- The world will not form distinctive Christians
Allen Catherine Kagina- A Grander Vision
- I was naïve enough to believe that God could change anything
- God doesn’t know the division between church and business or church and politics
- You are anointed for what you do
- We have so many resources, we just need to get the people to do the right thing
- If we invite the kingdom of God to where we are in the public area, I believe that God will take over and we will begin to see better societies
Wilfredo De Jesus- A Grander Vision
- Prayer is necessary, Prayer is a weapon, But we cannot allow prayer to be a crutch not to do anything
- You cannot let your budget dictate your faith
- Once the moral condition has been revealed to you, we must move to action
- Who will stand in the gap?
- We must engage our community
- We must do what Jesus did, He sat with the lost, He ate with the lost
- Fear is the absence of faith
- For me what is sacred is the message, not the method!
- We must not be afraid to take our faith into the communities
- How many leaders have been in the huddle for 5 years? When is it that we are going to call break and do what we are going to do and fill the gap
- You have to be willing to sacrifice
- Whenever you decide to stand in the gap, you are going to face strong opposition, but God is with you-who can be against you?
Ivan Satyavrata- The Power Paradox
- Power is simply the potential or ability to move reality-to make something happen
- There is no such thing as leadership without power
- A leader must have power and humility
- The whisper of God will grow into a crescendo so everyone in the world can hear God’s voice
- Jesus holds a scepter in one hand and a towel and basin in the other
- A leader’s power in their ability to influence people
- Leaders wake up asking, “How can I use my power to make the world a better place today?”
- The greatest gift you can give to your followers is to create the ultimate safe place for them so they can soar
- How do we apply the message of Christ to the million of acts of injustice that occur every hour on our planet?
- Do not withhold good from those who it is due when it is within your power to act
- Leaders use kingdom power to carve out opportunities in the face of daunting opposition
- I don’t have to be a Christian terminator who wipes out all evil from planet Earth
- The true secret of any great leaders’ power is that when you feel the weakest that is when you are really the strongest
- Leaders recognize that power comes from God and is a sacred trust to be used to build up, not to destroy
Tyler Perry- When Leadership Meets Inspiration
- Clear the noise. Clear the clutter. Clear the naysayers
- Sometimes I pass up the qualified with the wrong attitude, for the less qualified with the right attitude
- God doesn’t make any mistakes
- It takes an enormous amount of energy to get through abuse/betrayal, but it takes the same amount of energy to forgive the wrongdoer
- It’s not just about making them laugh, use the laughter as anesthesia to get to the heart of the matter
- Don’t judge, but for the grace of God, it could be one of us
- The feast is prepared in the presence of my enemies so watch me eat!
- Rather than focus on the critic, focus on the people impacted by your work
Louie Giglio- Closing
- All the glory goes to God, honor goes to people
- We are going to leave this place and do what God has called us to do
- What is your mountain?
- There is enough supply from God in your life to make it to the summit
- Sometimes you just don’t know what to do
- The stakes are too high to die with a small vision
- I want to improve the situation for every person possible
- Life is short, but God is big
- You get up the mountain one step at a time
- God’s power is sufficient enough to take the very next step He is asking us to take
- When it looks like everything has gone off the rails, embrace the darkness because God is preparing you for a greater role in His story
- You can, but you can’t
- We rest because what we do depends on God, not on us
- Humility is the by-product of being with Jesus
- Take the next step
- Don’t stop walking in the confidence that Christ is enough to fulfill everything He has called you to do
