Patrick Lencioni Founder and President, The Table Group The Most Dangerous Mistakes Leaders Make These mistakes hurt people. They leave collateral damage. 1) We become a leader for the wrong reason. Money, fame, notoriety Right reason: Want to sacrifice themselves for the good of others even when they don’t’ know that there’ll be any return […]
Jeffrey Immelt President and CEO, General Electric Throughout my career there has never been a job in the company that was beneath me. If you’re more a giver than a taker, your peers know that. Horizontal strength is what keeps institutions together. The best leaders go forward. See the world as it is and figure […]
Carly Fiorina Former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, Chairman of Good 360 Human potential is the one, only, limitless resource we have in this world. It is amazing what happens when human potential is unlocked for worthy goals and purpose. Things that crush potential: fear subjugation bureaucracy – rules-based, process-driven; forget who they are there to serve; […]
Hard Fought Leadership Lessons by Bill Hybels **These are my raw notes from the session. I’ll be writing more application & takeaways following the summit. Leaders by definition are visionaries. We get seized by visions from God. The vision consumes us. It becomes our identity. It affirms our self-worth. We can become obsessed with the […]
For the next two days I’ll be hanging out with 130,000 leaders in 350+ cities for The Global Leadership Summit. This year we’re celebrating 20 years of The Summit! This leadership experience has been a key event in my life. I’m so thankful for the leaders who have challenged, inspired and stretched me through the […]
Deep enough to drown. Foggy enough to confuse. Complex enough to frustrate. Uncertain enough to unsettle. That’s how leadership feels most days. The outside forces are just enough to cause me to question everything. “Leaders must be tough enough to fight, tender enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes, humble enough to admit them, […]
The historian and moralist known as Lord Acton is credited with saying, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” The “great men” Lord Acton referred to are those in positions of power—leaders and influencers. What a despairing viewpoint of something that was intended to be a […]
The story moved me before I even read it. Zach Sobiech, just a typical teenage boy living a not-so-typical teenage life. Fly a Little Higher: How God Answered One Mom’s Small Prayer in a Big Way is Laura Sobiech’s story of watching her son live his last days. Zach and his entire family chose to […]
“How did I do?” or “Did I connect?” Which question do you more commonly ask yourself after you speak, teach, lead a meeting, talk to your staff? A good leader is always evaluating… always seeking feedback to improve. But those two questions above nuance a distinction that is critical in our motives for seeking feedback. […]
“Leaders appear when awareness meets need.” “A person who knows what a group actually needs must be more aware than those in need.” Deepak Chopra Do you know what your group needs? You family, your staff, your congregation, your customer, you small group bible study, your friend going through a crisis… do you know what […]
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