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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: 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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global leadership summit 2012: condoleezza rice

Monday, August 13, 2012

Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. Secretary of State, addressed the Global Leadership Summit. Here are the highlights from her talk:

  • When fear between a dictator and his people breaks down all that is left is angry that fuels revolution
  • Leaders lead by the consent of the people they lead
  • Democracy doesn’t mean the tyranny of the majority
  • The strong cannot exploit the weak
  • If the strong exploit the weak then democracy cannot be stable
  • If every life is worthy then every life is capable of greatness therefore the strong have a responsibility to provide opportunity for greatness to the weak
  • If you have the privilege too lead in difficult times there is great opportunity
  • Leadership is about helping others see their own leadership potential not having followers
  • The most important quality of a leader is their irrepressible optimism
  • It is a privilege to struggle
  • Things that one day seem impossible in retrospect seem inevitable
  • Today’s headlines and history’s judgment are rarely the same
  • The leader of Sudan was the most dangerous person that she ever had to deal with because he was willing to do almost anything to get what he wanted and he treated his own people poorly
  • Leadership is not about you or your ego but about trying to get something done
  • When things are tough people become more of who they are
  • If you cannot agree with your leader on a matter of principle then you must resign
  • If you do something that you know your leader will be upset about call him before he calls you
  • He may be your friend but he’s the president, so his decision matters not yours
  • When you are in a position of authority you need truth tellers around you…(truth telling to the leader needs to be done in private)
  • You have to take energy from first chair public leadership or it will drain you
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