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Leadership Summit 2017: Fredrik Haren

Fredrik Haren is a business creativity expert who has authored nine books, including The idea Book – credited as on of “The 100 Best Business Books of All Time.” He is a global speaker who has been invited to speak to leaders in more than 60 countries on six continents on the importance of creativity in solving problems. Recognizing how challenging this is, Haren provides practical steps to help individuals and organizations become more creative.

  • Is creativity important in your job? 98% of people think they it is
  • Do you think you are creative? 45% people think they are
  • Do you think your company is doing enough to develop creativity in its employees? 2% of people think it is
  • There is no correlation between creative confidence and actual creativity
  • Ideas = one person takes 2 formerly known things and combines them in a new way
  • We cannot create out of nothing
  • Creativity = a person takes knowledge + information and combining them in a new way
  • We spend a lot of time talking about knowledge and information but not the “+”
  • The average business/management book only sells 3,000 copies
  • Creativity has never been more important than now…the speed of innovation is getting faster and we need to keep up
  • Idea-perception: the ability to see that the world is changing
  • The book is not dead because of the ebook. People used to read books on the bus, on the plane, on vacation. Where do people read books now?
  • We didn’t go from book to ebook, we went from book to social and digital media (mobile devices)
  • The problem: Human beings are not very good at change
  • Just because a man says something very confident doesn’t mean he’s right it just means he’s confident
  • The people you are leading are stuck doing things the way they do because they’re doing it the way they were told to do it
  • As leaders your job is to make your people more creative
  • You don’t do it by talking about creativity or teaching creativity, you do it by doing creative things as a leader…they are inspired to be creative
  • What is the most creative thing you can do as a leader?
  • We are never closer to God than when we have a really, really, good idea.

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Leadership Summit 2017: Marcus Lemonis

With many ventures on his resume, including the hit TV show, The Profit, Marcus Lemonis has invested$40 million of his own money into helping small businesses. Additionally, he is the CEO of America’s #1 source for RV’s and the largest organization of R owners in the world. Lemonis lends his expertise to other entrepreneurs using his evaluation system of three keys for business health and success; people, process and product.

  • The television show is just a mechanism for me to deliver a message
  • I don’t care much about money
  • My mom was my mentor
  • Leadership is about reinventing yourself
  • Business is about vulnerability
  • Business and life are about building connections
  • Your ability to experience success is directly connected to ability your to be vulnerable
  • When you unlock someone’s heart and built trust you can navigate anything together
  • Vulnerability is very difficult to unleash
  • Is there anybody that works with you or for you that you wish didn’t? If there is then shame on you.
  • I see myself as a leader regardless if it’s with business, friends, or family.
  • It’s your duty to make sure everyone who works for you is successful
  • The best leaders are colorblind and even aptitude blind
  • What is your purpose and what is your role in that purpose?
  • I’ve always felt like an underdog, how do I take what I have and go find other people who are just like me?
  • I made it my mission to pick people like me and help them, not just with words or money but with my hands
  • I got involved in helping small businesses. It was not the greatest investment on paper but it was the greatest investment for me.
  • Leadership means taking a chance on yourself first and then making moves that aren’t about you.

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Leadership Summit 2017: Sheryl Sandberg

Sheryl Sandberg is the chief operating officer at Facebook, overseeing the company’s business operations. Prior to Facebook, she was vice president of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google and Chief of Staff for the United States Treasury Department. Sandberg is the best-selling author of Lean In. Her 2017 release, Option B, is an inspiring and practical book about finding resilience and moving forward after life’s inevitable setbacks.

  • I didn’t define myself as a leader for a long time…I was called bossy, I was told I was too aggressive…most young girls aren’t told to think of themselves as leaders
  • What we see ourselves becoming we often become, what we can’t see we can’t become
  • I wanted to work in tech because I believed tech could change the world.
  • I loved the mission of Google…
  • When you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship you don’t ask what seat, you just jump on
  • “Hire big” = Hire people with unbelievable skills and hire people you’re going to need even if you don’t need them yet
  • I would take someone with skills over experience
  • If people are willing to take the job they will make the job what they want it to be
  • It’s not fair to fire people without feedback, but move quickly if it’s the wrong job for them or they break the rules
  • Most organizations that fail, fail because of reasons everyone knows but no one says
  • Focus on results not on face time
  • It’s easy to say people are trying hard…the problem is you’re rewarding people for effort not results. Reward people for results not effort.
  • We try to make hero’s of effort, execution and failure, don’t sweep failure under the rug…learn from it
  • Women have 5% of fortune 500 jobs, women have less than 25% of congress roles and run only 11 countries
  • No one does anything alone…you need support

3 P’s – reasons why people don’t get through grief

  • Personalization: it’s all my fault
  • Pervasiveness: all areas of my life are wrong, everything is terrible
  • Permanence: it doesn’t feel like it will go away
  • Resilience = “our ability to overcome hardship and it is a muscle and we can build it”
  • Joy is something we have to look for
  • Post traumatic growth syndrome: growth that comes as a result of difficulty in our lives
  • Happiness is how we spend our days…it’s the small things
  • Word correlations…
    • Vision: Mark Z. I work with a visionary
    • Values: family
    • Leadership Development: Investment…we invest in people
  • Leaders get better by getting real feedback and getting people to tell you the truth
  • Who’s responsible for leadership development? It’s both. The institution needs to support it and individuals need to chase it.

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Leadership Summit 2017: Bill Hybels

If you missed the Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit this year, no worries I’ve got you covered. I’ll be posting my notes and thoughts from each presenter over the next couple of days.

If you’re unfamiliar with Leadership Summit, more than 300,000 leaders participated in this world-class experience designed to help people to grow in their leadership capacity and effectiveness. Global Leadership Summit is a two-day event telecast LIVE in HD from Willow’s campus near Chicago every August to more than 600 locations in 128 countries and 60 languages.

Willow Creek Community Church Founder and Senior Pastor Bill Hybels opened the Summit addressing The Challenge of Leading an Organization in an Era of Divisiveness and Disrespect. The following are leadership quotes and lessons from this incredible session.

  • Armed with enough humility anyone can learn from anyone
  • Who do you owe the most for calling leadership out in you in your early years? Who saw potential in you before anyone else did? Who gave you an opportunity before anyone else did? Who kept saying to you, “You can handle this, you can figure this out, I know you can.”
  • Leaders must plant leadership seeds in the lives of younger people that they see leadership in.
  • We are where we are in our leadership journey today because someone gave us an opportunity.
  • Sometime in the next 7 days: reflect on who those leaders were in your early years and express your gratitude to them

The challenge of leading an organization in an era of divisiveness and disrespect

  • Where is disrespect and divisiveness taking us?
  • 95% of the US population believe we have an incivility issue
  • We of faith do not get to choose who we respect

10 Rules of respect

  1. Leaders must set the example of how to differ with others without demonizing them
  2. Leaders must demonstrate how to have spirited conversations without drawing blood
  3. Leaders must not interrupt others who are talking and not dominate the conversation
  4. Leaders must set the example of limiting their volume 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
  6. Leaders must never stereotype others
  7. Leaders must form opinions carefully and stay open minded if better information comes along
  8. 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.
  9. Leaders must set “Rules of Respect” for everyone in the organization and enforce them relentlessly
  10. So…looks like I missed one…sorry readers!
  • Tolerance is easy and requires little of us…we must move into uncomfortable territory and seek to understand each other
  • Those we lead are dying for us to challenge them and call the best out of them
  • Succession:
    • Who is going to make the decision? Is it the Sr. Leader or the Board or someone else?
    • When will it happen? Getting to clarity on this will drive the whole process.
    • How will it be led? Board going to run it, Sr. Pastor?
    • Planning: transition document is built
    • Internal: Research shows that internal successors have a much higher success rate
    • External: global search
    • Transition: credential the successor and set them up to win
  • Succession Learnings:
    • Having a well thought through road map is essential,
    • Keep the journey bathed in prayer and keep personalities and politics out of it
    • Our process has probably been too long (if a succession plan is long and complicated enough it will motivate any leader to want to move on)
    • When it goes too long it takes a toll on the vision of the organization
    • We underestimated the emotional toll it would take on the Sr. Leaders (asking the SLT to live in limbo is a huge risk)
    • We made 1 process mistake that caused unnecessary pain. The board didn’t do a regular check in with Bill during their vetting process.
  • God is an equal opportunity storywriter
  • Is it possible that God is writing an ending to your story and season so He can lead you to something new or different?
  • Endings matter too
  • Challenges:
    • Spend 15 minutes each morning in a chair you love to read and reflect on your life. Are you getting busier or better as a leader? Don’t squeeze all of the reflection time out of your life.
    • Make this year the year of the grander vision. Don’t just improve your product but make a difference in your community. At a certain point mere financial success should bore you.
    • Measure the health of your organizations culture and be committed to improving it. Your culture will only be as healthy as the top leader wants it to be.
    • Do you have a personal betterment plan for your leadership in the coming year?
    • Are you leading on the home front as well as you’re leading at work?

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Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit 2016

If you missed the 2016 Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit, then you missed some great content, great speakers, and incredible ideas that have the potential to shift your thinking when it comes to leadership. But no worries! Now you’ve got all the notes to every session right here at your fingertips for free! Hope you enjoy!

Bill Hybels

Bill Hybels is the founder and Senior Pastor of Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, IL. He also the founded The Global Leadership Summit, now in over 200 U.S. sites and over 260 cities worldwide including 85 countries opened the Summit by talking about the 4 Lenses of leadership.

Bill Mulally

Alan Mulally served as the President and Chief Executive Officer at Ford Motor Company from 2006 – 2014 shared his principles and practices for teams that work well together. He did a fantastic job of sharing his real-world leadership journey of transitioning from Boeing to Ford.

Jossy Chacko

Jossy Chacko gave a fantastic (and witty) talk at the Global Leadership Summit about Expanding your Leadership. Jossy serves as the Founder and President of Empart Inc.

Dr. Travis Bradberry

Emotional Intelligence is often talked about but rarely understood. Yet it’s one of the most significant performance indicators that you can control that will determine the success or failure you find in your job. Bestselling Author and Co-Founder of TalentSmart, Dr. Travis Bradberry gave a great presentation that will help you raise your E.Q.

Patrick Lencioni

Leadership Summit favorite, Bestselling Author and Founder of the Table Group, Patrick Lencioni, gave a great talk presenting new content about what to look for and how to be an ideal team player.

Chris McChesney

Chris McChesney, Bestselling Author and Executive at Franklin Covey, gave one of my favorite presentations at the Summit this year. The ability to lead teams and organizations to execute sets great leaders apart from good leaders.

John Maxwell

Leadership expert, bestselling author and coach, John Maxwell, dropped a ton of wisdom everyone at Leadership Summit this year and he was as quotable as ever. Here are my notes and take-aways.

Bishop T.D. Jakes

During the Summit Bill Hybels had an incredible interview with Bishop T. D. Jakes who serves as the Founder and Pastor of The Potter’s House.

Dr. Henry Cloud & Shauna Niequist

There is a blind spot that every “Type A” driving leader has when it comes to self-reflection. The Illusions of Leaders: things you think are true about Leadership but aren’t really true

Danielle Strickland

Danielle Strickland who serves as an Officer in the Salvation Army, an Advocate and author provided Summit attenders an incredible challenge to provide spiritual leadership to followers not just leadership skills that you’ve picked up along the way.

Horst Schulze

CEO of the Capella Hotel Group and the Founding President of the Ritz Carlton, Horst Schulze was back at Leadership Summit talking about putting the customer first.

Wilfredo De Jesus

Wilfredo De Jesus, who serves as the Senior Pastor at New Life Covenant Church wrapped up Leadership Summit this year with a spiritual challenge.


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