The Global Leadership Summit is one of my favorite conferences and I truly believe the information shared from the speakers is top-notch. After day one, my heart and head are full and I am already feeling more refreshed and enlightened.
My three big takeaways from today were:
1. Leadership is about others. It is not about me, but about using my potential to improve others and build into others
2. Entertain the question-What does enough look like in my life?
3. Leadership is about changing the order
Here are some additional thoughts from the day 1 speakers-
Bill Hybels- Hard Fought Leadership Lessons
- Everything that matters in this world rises and falls on leadership
- Leadership is deeply spiritual
- Every single decision you make as a leader has a direct effect on the emotions and spirit of those you lead
- God treasures people most in the world
- People join organizations, they leave managers
- What if we all looked at conflict as an opportunity to strengthen a relationship vs. the precursor to relationship ruin?
- Go Figure it Out
- Great Leadership is relentlessly developmental
- Develop leaders with a legacy mindset
- God has given us enormous freedom with what to do with our dash-we can live and lead safe or pursue a grander vision God will give to you
- Have I given any real thought to what my legacy will be? What of value and beauty will I leave behind with my dash is done?
- Develop endurance strategies to stay in the game for the long run
Carly Fiorina- Defining Leadership
- What you are is God’s gift to you, What you make of yourself is your gift to God
- Human potential is the only limitless resource we have in this world
- Leadership is about changing the order of things
- Leadership is not management
- Jesus did not go among the poor because he felt sorry for them, He went among the poor because He saw their potential
- Everyone has more potential then they realize, leaders are made, not born
- Choose to lead and change the order of things
- Choose to fulfill your own potential
- Choose the joy of unlocking the potential in others
Jeffrey Immelt- Positioning Your Organization for the Future
- “There has not been one moment when any job was beneath me”
- Be all in
- Be more of a giver than a taker
- You want people to be on fire when they come to work
- Leadership is an intense journey into yourself
Susan Cain- Quiet: Challenging the Extrovert Ideal
- No such thing as a one size fits all environment
- Solitude is a precious commodity we must restore in our organizations
- Rethink what we mean by networking. Focus on service
- Invite the small still voice back to our organizations
- Have the courage to speak softly!
Bryan Loritts- Instigating Change through Personal Sacrifice
- Drink deeply from William Wilberforce
- We need infinitely more people who are serious about the gospel in the marketplace than in the church
- Your vocation can become a viable venue to advance the meaningful things of life
- The blessings of God were not meant to be hoarded, but shared
- Our vision as leaders has to be more than the stuff that will perish
- God’s laws are never have to, they are get to
- God saves us as is, but never leaves us as is
- The Bible is a transcript of God’s heart, which means I can’t claim to have God’s heart and do nothing for the least of these
- Look at the way you lead and entertain the question of enough
Patrick Lencioni- The Most Dangerous Mistake Leaders Make
- Don’t be a leader just to be a leader
- When people become leaders for the wrong reason, they lose their goodness and stop caring for the people they are supposed to lead
- The cost of people becoming leaders for themselves leaves a trail of tears
- If people become leaders because they have calculated the ROI it is just economics
- When we aren’t vulnerable, we lose trust with the people we lead
- People don’t want us to perfect, they want us to be human
- Our identity can get wrapped up in being a leader which is bad when it crowds out our other higher identities
