2 weeks ago
tomorrow, I was attending #UniteMidwest
And during that
time, God put this old childhood song in my mind, over and over – it was a
CALLING
Lord, prepare me to be a sanctuary
Pure and holy, tried and true
With thanksgiving, I'll be a living
Sanctuary for You
The timing
of this 2-day summit was divinely planned – exactly what I needed to fill my
weary heart, soul, mind, strength
Day 1
speakers:
- Bill Hybels – founder of The Global Leadership Summit
- Sheryl Sandberg – COO, Facebook
- Marcus Lemonis – Star of The Profit; CEO, Camping World and Good Sam
- Michael Jr – gifted comedian – “if you have to point your toes to put your jeans on, you’re making some bad decisions” 😊
- Fredrik Haren – Author; Business Creativity Expert
- Bryan Stevenson – Founder & Executive Director, Equal Justice Initiative
- Andy Stanley – Leadership Author
Bill Hybels
- Song: we need the rebels, the fighters, and the champions of change; we are better, stronger and better united as one; we call on the brave
- 23rd Annual GLS
- Stretch your minds, grow your hearts, stretch your development
- Everyone gets better when leaders get better
- The stakes of leadership are sky high
- Our troubled world is demanding a better brand of leadership
- Not here by accident; here for a reason with exact set of current circumstances
- Armed with enough humility, leaders can learn from anyone
- Pastors can learn from business leaders, business leaders can learn from pastors
- Listen and obey, no matter the cost…
- (teacher to age 10 Billy), “It’s obvious you’re a leader!”
- Am I leader or just a trouble-maker?
- When and where were you when you first had the idea that you would be a leader?
- Top 5 that realized I was a leader – write them a note
- Covenant to acknowledge young leaders – plant seeds
- We are leading in an era of divisiveness and disrespect
- Book: Mastering Civility
- Respect everyone always! (in all ways) – everyone has intrinsic value!
- 10 Rules of Respect
- #1 Leaders must set the example on how to differ with others without demonizing them
- #2 Leaders must set the example of how to have spirited conversations without drawing blood
- #3 Leaders must not interrupt others who are talking and must not dominate the conversation
- #4 Leaders must set the example of limiting their volume levels and refusing to use incendiary or belittling words that guarantee to derail a discussion
- #5 Leaders must set the example of being courteous in word and deed to everyone at every level
- #6 Leaders must never stereotype
- #7 Leaders must apologize immediately when they are wrong, instead of denying or doubling down
- #8 Leaders must form opinions carefully and stay open minded if better information comes along
- #9 Leaders must set the example of showing up when they say they are going to show up and doing what they say they are going to do
- #10 Leaders must set “Rules of Respect” for everyone in the organization and enforce them relentlessly
- Civility Code
- #1 We will greet and acknowledge each other
- #2 We will say please and thank you
- #3 We will treat each other equally and with respect
- #4 We will be direct, sensitive and honest
- #5 We will address incivility whenever it occurs
- AT&T… “I’m not asking you to merely tolerate… move to uncomfortable”
- Succession – Who? When? How?
- Grit
- Perseverance
- Proverbs 11:14…
- Jack Welch… “Hard to build high-performing teams; impossible to transition perfectly…”
- God is so smart and so kind. God writes a customized story for each of our lives. We can choose to follow.
- God had a better story for me than I could have ever scripted for myself
- God is an equal opportunity story writer. He is just that wise. He is just that kind.
- God writes an ending to a current story we are living so that He can move us into a new season that He has for us.
- God is very clear, gentle, but clear
- Book: Necessary Endings
- Leaders love to be challenged, we thrive on them
- Take action
- In your favorite chair, take 15 minutes every day to read & reflect on your life
- Grander Vision! Mere financial success should bore you. God made your soul for more.
- Measure health of culture
- Personal betterment plan (example, read a leadership book per month)
- Lead well and lead wholeheartedly on the home front
- Are you getting better or just busier?
- Your organization will only be as healthy as your top leader wants it to be
Sheryl
Sandberg
- When did she become a leader? WAY into her career! (but her mom would say at age 4)
- Book: Lean In
- Book: Option B
- Can’t become what we can’t see
- When offered a job on a rocket-ship, don’t ask “which seat?”…JUMP ON!
- I know you don’t have experience, but I believe in your skills
- Hire BIG! (fire fast?)
- Candor – tell and hear the truth (her mother was a great communicator, taught mirroring)
- Most organizations fail for reasons everyone knows but no one says
- Focus on results, not facetime/effort
- Make heroes of people who learn from failure – who set ambitious goals, have a great plan, work hard, execute well and fail
- Graduated from college in 1991
- “I believe women can lead more in the workplace. I believe men can contribute more in the home. And I believe that this will create a better world, one where half our institutions are run by women and half our homes are run by men.”
- We berate women for not doing housework and child rearing well, but celebrate when men do any at all
- Husband died in May 1, 2015, when her children were ages 10 and 7
- Incapacitated. Every hour of every day. Paralyzed.
- Personalization: the belief that we are at fault
- It’s not your fault
- Pervasiveness: the belief that an event will affect all areas of my life
- What could be worse? What is still good?
- Permanence: the belief that the aftershocks of the event will last forever
- Resilience is a muscle to build.
- Don’t ask how much resilience you have, ask me how you build it. Ability to overcome hardship
- There’s PTSD and there’s PTG – Post-Traumatic Growth! (song came to mind: …and I will never be the same again)
- Look for joy!
- Don’t sweat the small stuff
- Say, “You may or may not want to talk, but I am going to be here”
- Say, “We still believe in you!”
- We must show up for each other! Do something specific; not just a generic offer of if you need something/anything
- Some days you will see the sun a bit brighter and the trees a bit greener
- We must give people permission to have joy, and we must give it to ourselves
- Everyone can be a leader with good values and a vision
- How to be a good leader? Get people to tell you the truth
- Take action:
- At the end of every day, write down 3 moments of joy; Joy can be small things like getting a cup of coffee or a hug
- Word association
- Vision: Mark
- Values: Family
- Leadership Development: investment, can be anyone
- Getting Better: real feedback
- Whose responsibility is Leadership Development? Both! Institution supports and Individual believes
What
motivates you? Colossians 3:23…
GRANDER
VISION STORY #1
- Deltan Dallagnal – Attorney, Federal Public Ministry of Brazil
- We must do the best that we can do at this moment
- We’re not only responsible for what we do, but also the good we don’t do
Marcus
Lemonis
- What I ultimately wanted to do in life was put people together and solve problems
- Helps struggling businesses
- People, Process, Product
- How to understand yourself better
- Leadership is about taking a chance on yourself first and then taking a chance on others
- Understand people’s back-story
- His back story (he’s now 43)
- Go back to summer of 1987 – he was 13
- Eating disorder, bulimia
- Only child
- Molested by cousin
- Attempted suicide twice
- Identity crisis
- Who was his mentor? Mom
- Leadership is reinventing yourself
- Moved from Miami to college at Marquette
- Fresh start
- I thought I could get away, but I learned that memories follow you; I was still alone, still battling social anxiety
- In life, you have that moment, where you come to understand yourself better
- Think about what YOU’VE been through
- Life is about being vulnerable and transparent. Through this we can be more compassionate and effective as a leader.
- Sharing about yourself opens others to share
- Create a connection personally before talking business
- I am a steward of the people I lead (at work and home), make sure everyone is successful
- What is your purpose? What is your role in that purpose?
- His mom told him, “My purpose is for you to do great things!”
- Take all the bad experiences and do something with them
- Figure out your purpose in life
- 2008-2009 was sensationalized about stocks and banks – when in reality it was about people
- Helping people with your hands is very different than helping people with words or money
- Make a difference – for people!
- Small business owners are not conformists
- He’s an awkward person helping awkward business owners
- The best leaders are ones that are colorblind, race blind, and aptitude blind
- Bare your own soul – be tough, while also hugging
Fredrik
Haren
- Creativity important to job? 98% yes
- Are you creative? 45% yes
- Is your company doing enough to develop creativity? 2% (HR Mgr and the person that sits next to HR Mgr)
- What is an idea? 2 previously known things combined in a new way
- We cannot create – only God did and can
- When we have a great idea we feel close to God, because God is the original creator
- Formula for idea = p(k+i)
- A person take knowledge PLUS information and combines it in a new way
- Book + Notebook = Idea Book
- Idea-perception: your ability to see that the world has changed
- Bookàe-book? NO. Bookàfacebook, games, video
- We as human beings are not very good at change
- The people you are leading are so stuck in doing things one way because that is how someone told them to do it
- People are inspired to be creative, not taught to be creative
- You don’t get more creative by reading a book; you get more creative by DOING creative things
Bryan
Stevenson
- Lawyer – to increase the justice quotient
- Grandma would ask him, “Do you still feel me hugging you?”
- Get proximate – there’s power in proximity
- We don’t need answers before we get proximal; answers come when we’re proximal
- Change the narratives that sustain the problems facing us
- We are led by the politics of fear and anger
- To be driven by fear and anger creates chaos and destroys the road to justice
- There must be repentance before redemption
- Stay hopeful!
- Hopelessness is the enemy of justice
- It takes courage to stay hopeful!
- As a leader, either you stay hopeful, or you are part of the problem
- Rosa Parks told him, “Equal Justice Initiative is going to make you tired, tired, tired. Be brave, brave, brave!”
- Do uncomfortable things
- You are broken. Our systems crush the broken.
- How did we decide that the war on drugs was a criminal issue rather than a healthcare issue?
- Each of us is more than the worst thing we have ever done
- It’s the broken that understand the power of mercy and redemption.
- It is in the brokenness that we begin to transcend.
- I work for broken people in a broken system. I do what I do because I’m broken too.
- True leadership isn’t measured by how you treat the rich and powerful, but how you treat the poor and vulnerable.
- Your grades or income are not a measure of your capacity to lead
GRANDER
VISION STORY #2
Liz Bohannon
– Founder, Sseko Designs (footwear)
Poetic story
- Atoms
- Quantum entanglement
- Love brings separate things together
- Unity through interference
- Colossians 3:14…
Bill Hybels
- All of you leaders know the incredible highs and lows of leadership. You need a hand to hang onto.
- I want you to be a rebel for the right causes
- I want you to be a fighter for what matters most in this world
- I want you to be a champion of change to bring some solutions to this broken planet
Andy Stanley
- Years ago, he was at GLS and left feeling holy dissatisfied and ruined about his current status
- If we had it to do all over again, what WOULD we do all over again?
- Autopsy on success!
- Why is it working?
- Podcast: Lessons from the first 20 years
- We had a uniquely better product (in the southeast)
- But no longer unique
- Somebody somewhere is messing with the rules of the prevailing model – pioneering new approaches
- Every industry is stuck in shared assumptions
- Discovering uniquely-better is virtually impossible
- Odds go up when you learn to recognize uniquely-better
- Our best hope as leaders is to create a culture positioned to recognize, rather than resist, uniquely-better
- The earlier you recognize it, the less you resist, the more successful you will be
- Be a student, not a critic
- Never criticize something you don’t understand
- We naturally resist things that we don’t understand or can’t control
- We fuel innovation or we shut it down by our response
- The moment you start criticizing is the moment you stop learning. The moment you stop learning is the moment you stop leading. The moment you stop leading, people go somewhere else.
- “The next generation product… doesn’t come from previous generations.” Al Reis
- Keep your eyes and mind wide open
- Listen to outsiders – they aren’t bound by our assumptions
- Do not say, “That won’t work because…”
- Closed-minded leaders close minds
- How do you respond…?
- When is the last time…?
- When is the last time…?
- “We must pay attention to the frontiers of our ignorance.” Sam Harris
- Replace “HOW?” with “WOW!”
- If someone has an idea, how much does it cost you to lean in and say, “WOW!”
- “WOW!” ideas to life, don’t “HOW?” them to death
- Nothing is gained if you don’t know what your people are dreaming about. You may lose the next generation idea.
- Be “WOW!” parents (the world will “HOW?” them)
- Your greatest contribution to the world may not be something you do, but someone you raise
- We need to raise “WOW!” kids
- Ask the uniquely-better questions
- IS this unique?
- What WOULD make it unique?
- Is it BETTER?
- Is it better, REALLY?
- Always be positioned to recognize a uniquely-better product/experience/service
- Being a leader and leading are not the same
-TVZ 2017-8/10
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