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Global Leadership Summit 2013: Oscar Muriu

Thursday, August 15, 2013

As day 2 of Leadership Summit began wrapping up Oscar Muriu who serves as the Senior Pastor at Nairobi Chapel in Kenya gave an inspiring talk about multiplying your impact exponentially. Under Oscar’s leadership Nairobi Chapel has grown from a 40 person local church to a network of 30 churches with more than 14,000 in weekly attendance!

5 Convictions of Leadership Development

  • #1 came from Matt. 9:37-38 The size of your harvest depends on how many leaders you have.
    • The problem is not the harvest, it’s the harvesters
    • Jesus’s own strategy was to first find his leaders and invest in them not jump into the field
    • If you don’t have leaders around you, your reach will be limited by how many other leaders you raise up
    • One of the indicators of great leadership is how many leaders you raise up to continue after you
  • #2 came from Psalm 71:18 Live for the next generation
    • The problem is you are born into your own generation
    • When you grow up with, get married with, have kids with, grow old with and die with your generation your vision will die with your generation
    • The only way for your vision to live beyond you to instill it in others who will be there after you are gone
    • You know you are doing this successfully if the people you’re investing in are at least 20 years younger than yourself
    • Each of his leaders is responsible for meeting with 5 younger leaders for a year
  • #3 came from Numbers 11:10-18 Identify the budding leaders around you and take them to the Lord in prayer
    • There were already 70 1st class leaders sitting there right under Moses’ nose – in 1 day he found 70
    • Your “competition” can see them (young leaders) but sometimes you can’t see them because you’re too close to the situation…get help to identify them / remember what you were like
  • #4 came from Mark 12:30-33 Instill the 5 loves into your budding leaders
    • Love the Lord your God with all your heart: character
    • Soul: conviction
    • Mind: comprehension
    • Strength: competence
    • Neighbor as yourself: compassion
  • #5 came from Acts 4:13 Never do ministry alone, always have budding leaders around you
    • The secret of Jesus’s investment into his 12 was the scope of time
    • To be alone is to waste an opportunity to mentor a young leader
  • The more harvesters you have, the greater your harvest will be
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Global Leadership Summit 2013: Dr. Brene Brown

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Dr. Brene Brown, Research Professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work did an incredible job speaking about the vulnerability of a leader. Dr. Brown is a groundbreaking researcher into the topics of shame, worthiness, and courage. Check out her book Daring Greatly.

  • I don’t study leaders, I study people
  • The 2 irreducible needs of people are #1 Love and #2 Belonging
  • In the absence of love and belonging there will always be pain and suffering
  • People have 3 basic needs in life:
    • People need to be seen & loved
    • To belong
    • To be brave
  • Connection gives meaning to our lives
  • We have to allow ourselves to be loved.
  • Love is not something that we give or get but something that we nurture and cultivate between 2 people when they learn to love themselves.
  • Shame blame, disrespect, betrayal and the withholding of affection damage the root from which love grows.
  • Growth through connection: love is something that happens through connection with other people, it doesn’t happen alone by ourselves
  • You don’t have all the answers
  • We have too many problems, and if everyone who acted like they had all the answers actually had all the answers then why aren’t they solving all the problems?
  • Leaders aren’t supposed to have all the answers.
  • What a leader does is model the courage to ask the tough questions.
  • We can’t give what we don’t have (courage, sense of belonging, permission to ask for grace, etc.)
  • We cannot give help when we cannot ask for it.
  • When you feel self judgment for asking for help you are by default always judging when you offer help because you’ve attached judgment to needing help
  • Judgment shows up by deriving self worth through being a helper
  • Professing v. Practice
  • Love is a practice and when you engage in unloving practices your not loving
  • The space between how we behave and our aspirational values (love), that gap is where we lose people
  • People can’t navigate the gap between what we say and what we practice
  • People aren’t looking for perfection they’re looking for people who practice love
  • What kills love kills organizations
  • Shame: can only rise to a certain level until people disengage to self protect (humiliating and putting people down / gossip / favoritism / self worth attached to performance)
  • Blame: the simple discharging of pain and discomfort / the people who score the highest in the ability to hold people accountable have the lowest blame scores
  • Disrespect: #1 reason people leave jobs = lack of feedback / people feel unseen and disrespected / you can’t be good at feedback if you’re not willing to be vulnerable / it means sitting on the same side of the table as someone and looking at the problem together
  • Belonging: #1 barrier = fitting in / you have to make space in your organization for people to show up and be seen for who they are not who they could be
  • Be Brave: we never feel more alive than when we are being brave (love, work, etc)
  • You can choose courage or you can choose comfort but you can not have both the two are mutually exclusive
  • If you sign up for courage you are signing up to get your butt kicked
  • If you’re going to be brave you need: Clarity of values & someone who loves because of your imperfections
  • If you are not in the arena not getting your butt kicked I am not interested in or open to your feedback
  • As the world has grown the number of cheap seats has grown
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Global Leadership Summit 2013: Vijay Govindarajan

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Vijay Govindarajan was interviewed by Jim Mellado about getting innovation right. Vijay is ranked #3 on Thinkers 50 and was named one of the Top 10 Business School Professors in the world by Business Week.

  • Strategy is about leadership in the future therefore if you want to be a leader in the future you need to adapt
  • Strategy is innovation
  • How much of your current efforts are in:
    • Box 1: mange the present / Competition for the present = efficiency
    • Box 2: Selectively forget the past
    • Box 3: Create the future / Competition for the future = innovation
  • Improving the efficiency of you’re system today will only take you so far. You’ve got to innovate and adapt.
  • Dominate logic bubbles up in the organization (metrics, execution, efficiencies = bring self imposed boundaries)
  • The Central Problem: How do you preserve and overcome the dominate logic at the same time  Create the future while managing the present with efficiency?
  • Innovation is more than Ideas: It’s not creativity, it’s commercializing and executing the creativity of the ideas.
  • Innovation is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
  • Innovation equation: Innovation = idea + leader + team + plan + execution
  • Innovation Leader: it’s not the responsibility of the just the leader.
  • Innovation leaders have to be humble, work with the bureaucracy and harness the great capability of the core business not be subversive
  • Innovation killers:
    • Make the false assumption that innovation can happen inside the performance engine (innovation is the opposite of efficiency)
    • Not constituting the team and the plan effectively
  • The innovation team must be dedicated, different and distinct from the performance engine team.  But linked to the performance engine team.
  • The future is now…the future is not about what the organization does in the future, but what you do right now.
  • If you want a tree 5 years from now you have to plant new seeds today.
  • To be innovative you are going to have to fight organizational memory while simultaneously depending on it
  • Conflict is not bad in an organization…if you know how to manage them… you can harness the best ideas
  • Zero based planning & organizing: test assumptions
  • Spend a little, learn a lot, because you’ve got a lot of assumptions to test
  • Innovation is about value for many not value for money. Which means you have to be able to do more with less.
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Global Leadership Summit 2013: Joseph Grenny

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Day 2 of Leadership Summit started off with Joseph Grenny, Co-Founder of VitalSmarts and best-selling author. He spoke on mastering the skill of influence, the topic of his book: Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change.

  • Leadership is Intentional Influence.
  • Bad behavior can feel good or bad and good behavior can feel bad or good.
  • Your job as an influencer is to make the good stuff feel pleasurable and the bad stuff feel bad.
  • Influencers understand that people can change the way they feel about behavior and decisions (we can talk ourselves into anything).
  • Our ability as leaders is not just about motivating people but also acquiring the competence to do so.
  • People change when we put together a strategy that includes impulses, motivation, training, cues, and accomplices.
  • Don’t just teach principles connect them to values
  • Help people frame specific daily decisions in godly ways
  • Ability is a profound factor in influence…most people start on the right and move left – they start with skills and abilities and move towards motivation
  • Practice setting must approximate the real world
  • Small bites with consistent feedback and coaching is the best environment for increasing skill levels.
  • You want to change the world, learn how to change behavior
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Global Leadership Summit 2013: Mark Burnett

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

It was incredible to sit and listen to Bill Hybles have a conversation with Mark Burnett, four-time Emmy Award Winner and Executive Producer of Survivor, The Voice and The Bible among other shows.

  • In business, there are a lot of “No’s.” No just means “next opportunity.”
  • The Bible is a calling. When Jesus says to do something you get your #@% off the couch and do something
  • Stop playing defensively and start playing offensively. Stop apologizing. Be offensive.
  • Choose your companions before you choose your road
  • Hire the right people empower them and stay out of their way
  • Not everybody is the right body on the team
  • If someone pitched a show without a budget and a schedule I’d think they’re crazy, irresponsible, and they’d be fired tomorrow
  • The easiest thing to do is to waste money and overspend.
  • What we’re doing is fun but it’s not a game
  • Making Christian shows or movies doesn’t give you permission to make it crappy
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