Day One
Willow Creek Leadership Summit
Lead Where You Are – Day One Highlights
Vision to Die For (Bill Hybels)
- Nothing matters more than deep ownership of the vision
- What are you willing to do for the vision? (protect, pray, protest, sacrifice, die)
- The leader sets the pace and must be the first to deeply own the vision
- Followers are willing to take a bullet if they know the leader is willing to take the first bullet
- Vision formation, refinement, & declaration should be a team process
Tough Choices (Carly Fiorina)
- I was not a gifted child but my parents were a gift to me
- I can’t do someone else’s story (be who you are)
- Many fears are stupid but they are real
- Don’t let people’s smaller idea of you define who you are
- Leadership is seeing & unlocking potential in others
- Expect people to develop as leaders
- There is a gift in everything (find it)
Go Put Your Strengths to Work (Marcus Buckingham)
- Build around your strengths, manage around your weaknesses
- People are not a company’s greatest asset, people’s strengths are a company’s greatest asset
- MYTH – As you grow, your personality changes; TRUTH – As you grow, you become more of who you are
- MYTH – You grow the most in your areas of greatest weakness; TRUTH – You grow the most in your areas of greatest strength
- MYTH – A great team member puts aside his strengths and does whatever the team needs; TRUTH – A great team member volunteers his strengths to the team most of the time
- Strengths are what you feel strong at not what you are good at
- You are the authority on identifying your strengths
- It doesn’t matter what I believe, it only matters what you believe
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