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global leadership summit 2012: john ortberg

Thursday, August 16, 2012

John Ortberg is the Lead Pastor at Menlo Park Presbyterian Church, in Menlo Park, CA and author of “many books” according to Wikipedia (that means too many to count). These are my notes from his talk:

  •  Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus
  • Christian Leaders need to expand their view of Jesus because they are stewards of the movement that He began
  • Jesus gave the world its most important movement
  • Jesus Christ has become the hinge of history
  • We give our children names like Paul, Peter, and Mary and our dogs’ names like Caesar and Nero
  • Jesus shaped how we express compassion
  • Wherever you have an institution of self-giving for the lowly…it probably has its roots in Christianity
  • The Jesus movement shaped education
  • The Jesus movement revolutionized art
  • Jesus changed how we think about human rights and dignity
  • Who is this man?
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global leadership summit 2012: mario vega

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Mario Vega is the Senior Pastor of Misión Cristiana Elim in El Salvador one of the world’s largest churches with 73,000 attendees. These are my notes from the talk he gave at The Summit this year:

  •  God is not interested in offerings or sacrifice but obedience
  • There are defining moments in the life of a man that define his character
  • When a person participates in dishonest behavior it reveals the character of the heart, and it is usually just the tip of the iceberg
  • Those who allow themselves the liberty of moral failure open the door for further failure in the future
  • The moral failure of a leader will challenge the integrity of others as well
  • The steps that Samuel processed when he realized the fact that his friend Saul was no longer going to be king: 1. Denial 2. Depression 3. Acceptance 4. Action
  • Integrity lost cannot be fully restored
  • Leaders are defined by the ongoing decisions that they make
  • Every right decision a leader makes will strengthen his influence

 

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global leadership summit 2012: geoffrey canada

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Geoffrey Canada is a social activist and educator. Since 1990, Canada has been president and CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone in Harlem, New York

  • We usually think in terms of, “What is the shortest amount of time and the least amount of money we can invest to make a permanent change?”
  • There is no time in a child’s life that you can’t be a great parent
  • You can’t take a vacation from parenting
  • It’s not exceptional to meet people’s needs it’s exceptional that people don’t think they can or should do it
  • One of the most difficult things you can do is fail and fail publicly
  • Sometimes not taking the money from a donor is the smartest thing you can do, particularly when the gift is given with the hope of it being given to something that will take you off mission
  • The day I walked into my job there was a succession plan
  • There is no plan for the company to go worse upon my departure than when I am here.
  • If you love your organization then you have to leave when it is going up so that way when the next person comes in they don’t come in at a bad time getting wrongly compared to you.
  • It’s easy to have faith when everything is going great; the real test of faith is when you’re faced with something that your faith in God is the only thing that will keep you going
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global leadership summit 2012: william ury

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

William Ury is the co-founder and senior fellow at Harvard University’s Program on Negotiation. These are my notes from his interview at the Global Leadership Summit.

  • Negotiation is the act of reaching agreement
  • The greatest obstacle to negotiation and agreement is ourselves. We are the biggest barrier to our own success
  • When angry you will make the best speech you will ever regret
  • One of the greatest powers of negotiation that we have is the power not to react
  • 4 Tips to successful negotiation:
    • #1 People:
      • Separate the people from the problem.
      • Be soft on people and hard on the problem.
      • Listen, put yourself in the shoes of the other person and offer respect
    • Interests:
      • Focus on interests not positions.
      • What are the underlying interests and issues?
    • Options:
      • Develop multiple options.
      • Creative options that meet the interests of all parties
    • Criteria:
      • The power of objective criteria and fairness, insist that the result be based on some objective standard.
      • Go into the conversation within a bottom line that you would walk away without agreement but still be happy with your walk away plan
  • Less talk, more walk
  • “Do I not destroy my enemy when I make them my friend?” Abraham Lincoln
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global leadership summit 2012: patrick lencioni

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

These are the latest in the series of notes I’m posting from the Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit. Hope these have been helpful to everyone. In this session Patrick Lencioni, founder and president of The Table Groupand author of 10 best selling books, killed it talking about organizational health! Enjoy the notes.

  • People need to be reminded more than they need to be instructed via Samuel Jonson
  • The single greatest opportunity for improvement and competitive advantage is free, accessible, and untapped. It is building a healthy organization.
  • What does it take to be a great company?
    • #1 Be Smart: finance, strategy, marketing, etc. this is what gets most of the attention because it’s easiest
    • #2 Healthy organization: What does a healthy organization look like? Minimal politics and confusion, high degrees of moral, low turnover among the best people, high productivity
  • There is a big difference between simple and difficult
  • It is impossible in this day and age to build a competitive advantage based on knowledge. But you can build a competitive advantage by building a healthy organization. Every team has a enough experience, talent, and industry knowledge…what they don’t have is a healthy organization.

Building a healthy organization

  • #1 Build a Cohesive Leadership Team:
    • If a leader on the team can’t be vulnerable first he won’t have a culture of vulnerability and trust on his team
  • #2 Create Clarity:
    • 6 questions to align around:
    • Why do we exist? When you know your purpose it informs and guides decision making
    • How do we behave? A core value is something you’re willing to get punished for. Permission to play values are minimum standards for qualifying to be on the team. It’s not unchristian to reject an applicant because they don’t fit your culture
    • What do we do?  Core business. Great organizations define what the 2 or 3 things are that drive them and then they’re relentless about them.
    • What’s the most important thing for us to do right now?
    • How will we succeed? Strategy should be accessible to everyone. Strategy is the myriad of decisions that you make which differentiates you between you and your competitors. Effective strategies make decisions easy and empower your teams to make decisions that reflect and build your culture and values
    • Who around this table needs to do what next?
  • #3 Over-Communicate Clarity:
    • People have to hear it 7 times before they remember it.
    • Great leaders never get tired of repeating themselves.
    • If you’re people can’t do a good impression of you when you’re not around then you’re not saying it enough
  • #4 Reinforce Clarity:
    • If your company tries to be everything to everyone it will end up becoming nothing to no one

 

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