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Leadership Summit 2016: Melinda Gates

Monday, August 15, 2016

Melinda Gates, Co-Chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation shared her incredible story and journey of generosity.

  • She is a self described “Impatient Optimist” –  Things are getting better, statistics bare that out but we can do better and we have the capacity to do better
  • “In business you have data all the time from your customers, in the non-profit world, it is amazing how many decisions are being made without real data!”
  • “One person can change the world and make a difference in another persons life”
  • The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the largest private foundation in the world with more than 1,400 employees
  • She met Bill at Microsoft but left the company because she felt that they couldn’t have a great family and both have hard-charging careers.
  • She has tried to give her kids a “normal” upbringing, she even uses her maiden name to enroll them in school.
  • Growing up going to Catholic schools taught her the value of service, silent retreats, and other spiritual disciplines. She still carries out these practices in her life today.
  • Bill and Melinda have used their intellectual horsepower to not just build a great business and wealth but also build an incredible Foundation and give back.
  • “All lives equally matter-no matter where they live in the world”
  • “The foundation is the embodiment of our values in the world” Their money follows their values.
  • “We need to live out our values in the world.”
  • “It’s in the humanity of the work where you connect with other people…”
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Leadership Summit 2016: Alan Mulally

Monday, August 15, 2016

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.

Principles and Practices of Working Together

  • People first
  • Everyone is included
  • Compelling vision, comprehensive strategy, and relentless implementation
  • Clear performance goals
  • One plan
  • Facts and data
  • Everyone know the plan, the status, and areas that need special attention
  • Propose a plan, positive, “find-a-way” attitude
  • Respect, listen, help, and appreciate each other
  • Emotional resilience – trust the process
  • Have fun – enjoy the journey and each other, but humor can never be at someone else’s expense
  • Walking into new problems at Ford upon leaving Boeing
    • Regionalization had created low synergy levels in the organization
    • Consumer tastes were changing and we were behind
    • We were fast followers
    • The economy was slowing down and fuel prices were going up
    • They were losing money on every brand and every vehicle
    • Was picked up in a Land Rover not a Ford to be taken to the head quarters from the airport
    • None of the Ford Executives drove a Ford
  • Look at the data and it will tell you who’s hot and who’s not
  • Don’t look at the success you’ve had but the ground you still have to take to make the gap between vision and reality smaller
  • Deal with reality, build a plan to deal with it, and trust and help each other to improve it
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Leadership Summit 2016: Bill Hybels

Sunday, August 14, 2016

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 hundreds of locations in North America. Throughout the fall, Summit events take place at an additional 675+ sites in 125 countries and 59 languages.

Willow Creek Community Church Founder and Senior Pastor Bill Hybels opened the Summit addressing The 4 Lenses of Leadership.  The following are leadership quotes and lessons from this incredible session.

  • Everybody wins when a leader gets better
  • Armed with enough humility leaders can learn from anyone

The 4 lenses of leadership

#1 Passion Lens

  • What fills your passion bucket?
  • It’s the leaders job to fill their own passion bucket
  • Your team wants their soul to be stirred by passion of their leader
  • How full is your passion bucket?
  • Passion comes from the heights of a beautiful dream or the depths of something that has gone terribly wrong in the world
  • What matters most to people (more than generous compensation packages & healthy team cultures) is to work with and around a passion filled leader
  • A motivated worker will outperform an unmotivated worker by 40%
  • Passion is like protein for the team, it energizes them along the way
  • It’s not just presiding over something or pontificating
  • Leadership is simply taking people on a journey from “here” to “there”

#2 People Lens

  • Most people grew up in a fear based, performance oriented work culture
  • Most people have never experienced a high trust, high functioning team culture
  • It doesn’t matter where you start, you can build a healthy culture
  • An organization will only ever be as healthy as the top leader wants it to be
  • You can change the culture of your team if you want to
  • God treasures one thing in this vast cosmos above everything else…people
  • Transnational Noise: water-cooler conversation and chatter takes a toll on the moral of the entire organization
  • Talent Observation: our problem is we’re increasingly distant from people in the organization and have no exposure to them.

#3 Performance Lens

  • Leaders have to get stuff done and have to set the pace
  • Speed of the leader – speed of the team
  • Goal setting and performance measurements
  • Goalaholism will hurt the spirit of your team
  • To move forward it will take constant readjusting of your leadership goals
  • Thriving = taking ground
  • Health = holding ground
  • Under-performing = losing ground
  • Everyone wants to know how they’re doing
  • It is cruel and unusual punishment to employ someone and for them to not know how they’re doing
  • Do you drive your organization so hard that it has to misbehave or so loosely that it’s floundering?

#4 Legacy Lens

  • The legacy lens of ministry: what people remember about you once you’re gone
  • Are you proud of what you’re going to be remembered for?
  • Leadership is not fundamentally about time it’s about energy, what are you investing your energy in?
  • There aren’t do-overs but there are make-overs
  • Leadership can become a drug that other parts of your life have a hard time competing with
  • Legacy can be made different in a moment (positive or negative)
  • Leadership matters and it matters disproportionately
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Leadership Summit 2015: Craig Groeschel

Thursday, August 13, 2015

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.

Craig Groeschel is the founder and Senior Pastor of LifeChurch.tv, known for using innovative technology to spread the Gospel to multiple locations around the U.S. and globally via Church Online. Craig closed out summit with an incredible talk about expanding your leadership capacity.

Expanding your Leadership Capacity

  • Ephesians 3:20-21
  • Your brain does not understand what you are capable of – you don’t know what you’re capable of
  • There is way more inside of you than you could even imagine
  • Capacity = what you can handle / what you can produce
  • As your organization grows your mindset needs to change
  • If you don’t change the way you think you become the lid on the organization
  • Any time my organization needs to change I assume I have to change the way I think

#1 Build your Confidence

  • Your words give you away
  • Language of the lid: not enough hours in the day, not enough of me to go around, etc.
  • Change your self-talk
  • Take 1 step forward out of your self-talk and into the calling of God
  • The pathway to your greatest potential is through your greatest fear

#2 Expand your Connections

  • Show me who you listen to and I will show you who you are becoming
  • You may be one relationship away from changing the course of your history
  • Don’t copy what they do, learn how they think
  • When you think…”That’s not true in my context,” that’s probably the area you need to listen and grow in the most

#3 Improve your Competence

  • You may not know what it is, but everyone else around you knows what it is.
  • Delegation = building followers
  • Empowerment = building leaders

#4 Strengthen your Character

  • Talent will get you to the top but character will keep you there
  • If your character is not strengthening your future is weakening
  • You and I need to check our lives for leaks
  • Eliminate future temptation today
  • Why would I resist a temptation tomorrow when I can eliminate it today?
  • That’s not weak, it’s wise
  • Your are only as strong as you are honest

#5 Increase your Commitment

  • Stop kinda trying to do something
  • We will not stop until our marriage honors Jesus and blesses future generations
  • To reach people no one is reaching we will do things no one else is doing
  • How bad you want something determines what you will do to get it
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Leadership Summit 2015: Liz Wiseman

Thursday, August 13, 2015

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.

Liz Wiseman, the President of the Wiseman Group and best-selling author gave a talk based on her new book: Rookie Smarts – Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work.

Using Rookie Smarts

  • It’s not what you know, it’s how fast you can learn.
  • Is it possible that we are at our best when we are new, naive and are rookies?
  • Why do a job you’re qualified to do – there would be nothing new to learn.
  • Knowledge leads to assumptions
  • Sometimes we see what we expect to see
  • Inexperience leads to rookie mistakes
  • Rookies don’t know that something is hard so they just try
  • Rookies don’t bring new ideas, they bring questions…they ask “Why?”
  • Rookies take baby steps looking for affirmation along the way
  • Rookies operate fast because they’re desperate
  • When you lack resources you tend to get resourceful
  • When challenge goes up satisfaction goes up / when challenge is low satisfaction is low

Warning Signs of a Comfortable Team (on the verge of a organizational plateau) & what to do about it

  1. Things are running smoothly: throw away your notes
  2. You have the answers: ask the questions
  3. You get positive feedback: admit what you don’t know
  4. You’ve become the mentor: let someone else lead
  5. Your busy but bored: disqualify yourself
  • When you linger too long on a plateau you begin to die
  • If you want your team to move forward then lead them into the unknown
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