11 Aug Global Leadership Summit 2015 Conference Recap #GLS15
Whoa! This year’s Global Leadership Summit was A-MAZ-ING.
We looked through almost 20,000 tweets and Instagram posts and pulled out the very best. So enjoy and I highly encourage you to check it out next year!
@TrexlerMatthew: The church has been called to nothing less but to change the world #GLS15
“Even on the darkest days and in the biggest challenges, keep showing up.” – @BrianCHouston
“Leaders you cannot sustain the demands of leading without a source of regenerative strength that comes from God.” – @BillHybels
“So much of leadership is like walking on water, only God can keep you from sinking.” – @BrianCHouston
(No matter your industry) Service is your product. – Horst Schulze
“Leaders you cannot do this journey without help from above.” – @BillHybels
“You never hire someone to do a task. Hire someone to join your pursuit of a dream.” Horst Schultze
“Leaders you cannot sustain the demands of leading without a source of regenerative strength that comes from God.” – @BillHybels
“Leaders really do live a different kind of life.” – @BillHybels
It’s our job to stay connected with God who will help us do the big things He is calling us to do. – @BillHybels
3 Types of Feedback – Appreciation, Coaching & Evaluation – Sheila Heen
Appreciation keeps us motivated, Coaching helps us get better, Evaluation lets us know where we stand. – Sheila Heen
Art isn’t about drawing, it’s about learning to see. – @edcatmull
“If you get the right person, at the right place, at the right time, God will bless it.” – @BrianCHouston
“A secure leader know how to laugh at themselves.” – Michael Jr.
“During a crisis, a leader has to still lead the organization while dealing with the pain in their own soul.” – @BrianCHouston
As you become more senior in an organization, most people don’t want to take the risk to give you candid coaching. – Sheila Heen
5 Intangibles of Leadership:
- Grit
- Self-awareness
- Resourcefulness
- Self-sacrificing Love
- Sense of Meaning.
“You can only ever build on people who want to be with you.” – @BrianCHouston
@HeatherJLarson: The church is at it’s best when men and women are linking arms, using their gifts and giving their best to build God’s Kingdom!
If you don’t know how you can be better as a leader guess who does? Everybody else. Shiela Heen
“The world can’t be changed without leadership.” – @RichStearns
“Feedback is my relationship to the world and the relationship of the world with me.” -Shiela Heen
Leaders are almost always on the water without sight of land. – @BillHybels
“The focus of Christ’s leadership was not His own success, but the success of His followers.” – @sam_adeyemi
Being a leader does not make you superior to the people you are leading. – @sam_adeyemi
“Is it possible we are at our best when we know our very least – when we are rookies.” – @LizWiseman
Don’t go to work to work, go to work to be excellent in your career and to care about the people around you. – Horst Schulze
It’s not what you know, it’s how fast you can learn @LizWiseman
“When we lack resources we tend to get resourceful.” – @LizWiseman
“Newcomers tend to bring no ideas, which is a good thing. It forces us to face outward and ask questions.” – @LizWiseman
“When challenge level goes, up, satisfaction goes up.” – @LizWiseman
“When we are seeking, we tend to do our best thinking.” – @LizWiseman
When we are stretched and forced outside our comfort zones, we are forced to be more resourceful and innovative @LizWiseman
“We need leaders who are willing to step up and lead and leaders who are willing to let someone else take the lead.” – @LizWiseman
“When we step out of our comfort zone we feel alive.” – @LizWiseman
“We can be so busy that we don’t see the signs of stagnation.” – @LizWiseman
‘Leaders need more than a forward gear, they need stop and even a reverse gear’ @LizWiseman
“If you’ve become accustomed to being a leader, take a break and let someone else take the lead.” – @LizWiseman
“Once we have knowledge we tend to make bad assumptions.” – @LizWiseman
“Newcomers tend to bring no ideas, which is a good thing. It forces us to face outward and ask questions.” – @LizWiseman
“If there’s laughter in the room, people will solve whatever problem is there, no matter how hard it is.” – Ed Catmull
Growth stops when you don’t believe the people around you can do what you do. @sam_adeyemi
You will not find the definition of success until you help other people succeed. – @sam_adeyemi
“Follow me and I will make you—not I will teach you—fishers of men. Life changers.” —Sam Adeyemi
“Live for what’s worth dying for.” – Common
One person – one relationship can change the course of your journey/destiny. @craiggroeschel
Improve your competence. Decide some area you need to improve. You may not know what it is but everyone else may know @craiggroeschel
“The pathway to your greatest potential is straight through your greatest fear.” @craiggroeschel
“Don’t try to copy what effective people DO. Learn how they THINK.” @craiggroeschel
You need a distant mentor who will help you change the way you think @craiggroeschel
You show me who you’re being influenced by, and I’ll show you who you’re becoming. – @craiggroeschel
“If you delegate tasks, you created followers. If you delegate authority, you develop leaders.” – @craiggroeschel
It’s time you stop ‘kinda tryin’ to do something and get serious about increasing our commitment. @craiggroeschel
If you want to increase what you do and who you influence, you must increase your capacity. – @craiggroeschel
To reach people no one is reaching, we do things no one is doing. @craiggroeschel
We are not spiritual consumers. We are spiritual contributors. We are the Church & we exist for the world. @craiggroeschel
“You are only as strong as you are honest.” – @craiggroeschel
The Jesus-kind of leadership says, “If I can do it, you can, too! Walk on water!” THAT is empowerment!! Thanks, @sam_adeyemi
Talent can get you to the top, but only character can keep you there. – @craiggroeschel
Money is like blood, food, oxygen and water. Essential for life but not the point of life. -Jim Collins
Comfort is a stealthy thing: it enters the house as a guest, becomes a host, & soon becomes the master. -Kahlil Gibran
“If there is something in your private life that can impact your public life, it’s time to deal with it.” – @craiggroeschel
“Your brain does not understand what your God is capable of doing through you.” @CraigGroeschel
“If you want your team to stay relevant, lead your team into the unknown.” – Liz Wiseman
If your character is not strengthening, your future potential is weakening. – @craiggroeschel
“We’re open to Divine Intervention when we are in need of help.”- @LizWiseman
How to succeed: takers play Battleship, try to sink the other boats in the sea. Givers become the rising tide that lift all boats.
@LizWiseman: Leadership is defined in the dark space in the middle when it is too late to turn back but you can’t see the end yet.
The fastest way to change the feedback culture in an organization is for the leaders to become better receivers. – Sheila Heen
When you become a better receiver, you automatically become a better giver. – Sheila Heen
RT @JeremiahVik: A lesson to pastors on church growth: “Shepherds don’t birth sheep. Shepherds feed sheep. Sheep birth sheep.” -@sam_adeyemi
If you’re not listening more than you’re talking, your organization is in trouble. Greg Groeschel
“Everyone really does win when a leader gets better.” – @BillHybels
“Longevity is perhaps the greatest strength that anyone can have as a leader.” – Ps @BrianCHouston
“You can choose comfort or you can choose courage, but you can’t choose both.” —@brenebrown
In leading, take your time. Let God bring forward those He desires. Those who start may not be those who stay. – @BrianCHouston
Improve your communication: the tone, the style, the way you correct. – @craiggroeschel
“Why would I ever want to try to resist a temptation tomorrow that I can eliminate today?” – @craiggroeschel
“A blind spot is something that people believe they do well but others know they don’t.” – @BillHybels
Gritty organizations are unstoppable. But the arch enemy of grit is ease. @BillHybels
When you are the leader you forfeit the right to make excuses. Horst Schulze
“We succeed at our very best only when we help others succeed.” – Jim Collins
“When you’re at the point of no return, leadership is born.” – @BreneBrown
Magic happens when there’s a loss of ego in the room. @edcatmull
People become loyal in the moment they know someone cares for them. Horst Schulze
Failure = Growth – Jim Collins
Emotion dictates behavior. — @BreneBrown
“When God asks u a question it’s not because he doesn’t know the answer. He wants 2 confront u w/ ur own foolishness.” @sam_adeyemi
If serving is beneath you…leadership is beyond you #GLS15