Here are a few quotes from Day 1 of the 2017 Global Leadership Summit.
Bill Hybels
Communicator, author, and pastor
Sr. Pastor of Willow Creek,
Convener of The Global Leadership Summit
- With enough humility you can learn from anyone.
- Who called you out as a leader early on? Identify them. Then write them a note thanking them for seeing your leadership potential.
- We must plant leadership seeds.
- “No one ever expressed belief in my young life” *Young woman who was encouraged by Hybels noticing and confirming her gift of serving others. Take time to have 2-minute conversations throughout your week. Get to get to know and encourage those around you.
- People of faith: We do not get to choose who we respect.
- When was the last time you searched the Scriptures or your soul?
- What new story does God want to write for you?
Sheryl Sandberg
Chief Operating Officer at Facebook
- No one does anything alone.
- “She isn’t bossy, she has leadership skills.”
- Beating yourself up over and over does not help on the road to recovery.
- Overreacting does not help.
- Show up and do something!
- Write down moments of joy each day. Three is a good number to start.
- Make it easy for people to give you feedback.
Marcus Lemonis
CEO of Camping World & Good Sam
Star of The Profit
- Tell me something about yourself … before we do business.
- Help people with your hands, not just your words and money.
- You are blessed to mold people. … It’s your duty to help them.
Bryan Stevenson
Equal Justice Initiative
- Story of his grandmother giving him strong hugs, she would say later, “Do you still feel me hugging you?”
- Get closer to those you are serving.
- In proximity I learned things.
- We have to get closer to them (those you are serving) to understand them.
- We have to be willing to do uncomfortable things.
- Why do we want to kill all the broken people?
- I do what I do because I’m broken too.
Andy Stanley
Communicator, author, and pastor
Senior Pastor of North Point Community Church
- If we had it to do all over again, what would we do all over again?
- Somebody somewhere is messing with the rules of the prevailing model.
- Do this: (1) Be a student, not a critic. (2) Keep your eyes and mind wide open. (3) Replace How? with WOW! (4) Ask the uniquely better questions.
- We naturally resist things that we don’t understand or can’t control.
- “The next generation product or idea almost always comes from the previous generation.” -Al Reis, Focus
- That won’t work because … *You are making assumptions.
- Closed-minded leaders close minds.
- “We must pay attention to the frontiers of our ignorance.” -Sam Harris
- Wow ideas to life, don’t How them to death.
- Your greatest contribution in life might not be something that you do, but who you raise.
- Four questions to ask: (1) Is this unique? (2) What would make this unique? (3) Is it better? (4) Is it better … really?