This year’s Global Leadership Summit has been insightful and filled with leadership nuggets for leaders no matter the industry. As a pastor, you’ll benefit from each of the speakers below. I hope you’ll find a thing or two to take action on soon.
114 Quotes from the 2016 Global Leadership Summit
Bill Heybels
- “Everybody wins when a leader gets better.”
- “The stakes of leadership are sky high.”
- “The highest value here at the Summit is humility.”
- “We have so much more to learn about this mysterious power of leadership.”
- “Armed with enough humility, leaders can learn from anyone.”
- “In its simplest form, it’s [leadership] leading people from here to a place called, there.”
- “For team members to pay the entire price to go from here to there, they have to feed off the passion of the leader.”
- “A motivated worker will outperform an unmotivated worker by 40%.”
- “The leader’s passion is contagious.”
- “Passion is usually derived from the mountaintops of a dream or the valley of struggle.”
- “Sometimes you just have to risk everything.”
- “How full is your passion bucket right now?”
- “Whose job is it to fill the passion bucket of the leader? The leader.”
- “We’re all so different. What must you do?”
- “Sometimes just helping out one kid does wonders for the human soul.”
- “You must do whatever you must do to get your passion bucket filled.”
- “Find your passion, feed your passion, keep your passion bucket filled, and everybody wins.”
- “Even if you start with shattered lenses, you can grow and build a thriving culture.”
- “An organization will only ever be as healthy as the top leader wants it to be.”
- “We can do better and we must do better.”
- “God only really treasures one thing in this vast Cosmos – people.”
- “Religion is spelled, “do” and it doesn’t work.”
- “We have plenty of pastors of churches, what this world needs is pastors of business, government, etc.”
- “Here at Willow we are trying to reduce transactional noise.”
- “Leaders have to get stuff done.”
- “Speed of the leader, speed of the team.”
- “Even at a church, staff members want to know exactly what we’re trying to do, how fast, and if the senior leaders are proud of their progress.”
- “Every single worker you employ really wants to know how they’re doing.”
- “It is cruel and unusual punishment to employ a person and never ever tell them how they’re doing.”
- “We have to press ahead…but every once in a while we probably need to peak in the rear view mirror to see what we’re leaving behind – our legacy”
- “What kind of legacy will you leave?”
- “Throughout history, God has specialized in writing new narratives in people’s lives.”
- “If your leadership journey were coming to an end soon, would you be good with the legacy you’ll leave?”
- “No matter how fired up we are about our work, God never meant for work to flood out the other areas of our lives.”
- “When you look in the rear view mirror, do you like the legacy you are leaving behind?”
- “Legacies can change in an instant. Even yours.”
- “Leadership matters so much it scares me. So we need to get better.”
- “What you’re leading isn’t exciting because there’s nothing exciting going on inside of you.”
Alan Mulally – former CEO at Boeing & former CEO of Ford Motor Company
- “We have to have one plan and everyone needs to know what the plan is.”
- “If you’re worried, trust the process.”
- “The humor can never be at anybody else’s expense.”
- “It’s all about people. It’s about including people.”
- “Only 42% of employees have favorable feelings toward their employer.”
- “Leadership is needed in this world more than ever.”
- “The shadow of our leadership is so important.”
Gary Schwammlein – President of WCA
- “Christians ought to be the best employees in the world.”
- “It’s amazing what happens when leadership is inspired by God-given vision.”
Melinda Gates – Co-Chair of the Gates Foundation
- “The world IS getting better. Poverty has been cut in half.”
- “Bill and I have this belief that all lives, no matter where they are, matter equally.”
- “One individual can change the world.”
- “Today, I try to take time in silence every day.”
- “I do a spiritual reading, journal, and then silence or prayer.”
- “The foundation is the embodiment of our values lived out in the world.”
- “It’s a gift to be in the situation we’re in.”
- “You need to let your heart break.”
- “The biggest lesson we took away from business is we had data on customers, but when we came to the non-profit space, we were blown away with the lack of data organizations were making decisions with.”
Jossy Chacko – Founder of Empart
- “We all start with a dream.”
- “We’ve been entrusted with something, how are we proving ourselves to be trustworthy with more?”
- “To Jesus, faithfulness is multiplying what you have been given.”
- “Keeping and maintaining is not an option, especially for followers of Christ.’
- “We are created for and commanded to multiply.”
- “Enlarge your vision.”
- “Time has come for us to reactivate the gifts and abilities we have been entrusted with.”
- “When people hear your vision, they should know the size and scale of your God.”
- “Trust what God has put into you and run after it with all your heart.”
- “Let your vision be determined by what the Creator has put inside of you.”
- “There are opportunities all around you to enlarge your vision.”
- “Empower your people.”
- “Leadership is all about taking wise chances and giving people opportunities.”
- “Leaders are all around us, we just need to find them.”
- “Through empowerment, we can do incredible things.”
- “Your leadership reach is determined by your empowerment abilities.”
- “Leaders are there to lay the foundation, empower the people, and head to the next thing to champion.”
- “Focus on building the character before you empower them.”
- “People don’t fail because of lack of information, they fail because of lack of character.”
- “Leadership is not about leading from the front, but leading alongside.”
- “Embrace risk.”
- “When we bring a risk-free culture into leadership, we set leaders up for failure.”
- “Begin to see risk as your friend to love, not your enemy to fear.”
- “If God did not give you a spirit of fear, who gave it to you? The devil. Why are you taking things from the devil?”
- “Let go of your fears and begin seeing risk as your friend.”
- “Comfort, safety, and risk cannot coexist.”
- “By you not taking continuous steps of faith and risk, who is missing out on being blessed?”
- “If Moses had board members and advisors like we have, they’d still be in Egypt.”
- “It is critical that you begin to increase your pain threshold.”
- “Make the decision to pull the trigger on what God has put in your heart.”
Dr. Travis Bradberry – Emotional Intelligence 2.0
- “Emotional intelligence will change the way you see yourself, other people, and how you go about your work.”
- “Emotional intelligence is our ability to rationally respond to our emotions.”
- “We live in a world that doesn’t always know what’s good for us.”
- “We are not taught to lead. We are not taught to inspire people.”
- “Only about 36% of people are able to accurately identify their emotions accurately.”
- “You can’t turn off what you’re feeling.”
- “EQ is the foundation for critical skills.”
- “Organizations get very short sighted when it comes to promotions.”
- “Get your stress under control to increase your EQ.”
Patrick Lencioni – Author and Founder of the Table Group
- “Humility is recognition of what is true.”
- “Humility is the most important trait of an ideal team player.
- “An ideal team player is hungry.”
- “An ideal team player is smart – people smart.”
- “Hiring people for intelligence is not a great idea.”
- “If a person is humble, but not hungry or smart, we call them a pawn.”
- “If a person is hungry, but not humble or smart, we call them a bulldozer.”
- “If a person is smart, but not humble or hungry, we call them a charmer.”
- “People who are humble and hungry, but not smart are accidental mess-makers.”
- “People who are humble and smart, but not hungry are lovable slackers.”
- “People who are smart and hungry, but not humble are skillful politicians.”
- “When we develop our people we have to have courage to talk to them and let them know [hold them accountable].”
- “We have to change the hiring process and be very clear at what we’re looking for.”
- “We overemphasize technical skills when hiring people.”
- “We tend to focus too much on that which is measurable.”
- “We’ve got to get them out of the office and see how they deal with people.”
- “A big part of humility is forgiveness.”
- “The right people are humble, hungry, and smart people.”
- “Scare people with sincerity.”
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