We hosted The Global Leadership Summit at the Church at LifePark this past week – what a great week!  I was planning to list my top ten quotations, but I found I could not limit it to ten – here’s some thoughts for you to ponder:

Bill Hybels

Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.

Any effort to work on culture will fail without 100% buy-in from the leader at the top.

People join organizations – they leave managers.

He who is forgiven much will worship much.

What are you going to do with your dash?

As a leader you’re in the business of giving people confidence.

The grander the vision, the greater the price tag.

The kindest form of a management is the truth. (Jack Welch)

You’ll never be fully satisfied until you’re a part of God’s grand plan.

God made you on purpose for a purpose.

There is a grander vision with your name on it.

Figure it out and don’t call me.

 Carly Fiorina

The highest calling of leadership is to unlock the potential of others.

What we are is Gods gift to us – what we become is our gift to God.

Jeffrey Immelt

Be around a crises early in your career. You can’t tell anything about anyone until they have been through a crisis.

Over time my team will question my decisions, but I hope they never question my intentions.

Susan Cain

The wind howls but the mountain remains the same.

What’s in your suitcase?

Bryan Loritts

God sees us as is, accepts us as is, saves us as is, but by grace, never leaves us as is!

Patrick Lencioni

You can’t be too vulnerable as a leader. People expect us to be competent, but they don’t want us to be perfect, they want us to be human.

If it’s not servant leadership, it’s just economics.

A true leader sacrifices themselves for the well-being of others without a guarantee of a return on investment.

 Joseph Grenny

The vital behavior that enables most any positive organizational outcome is candor at moments of acute emotional and political risk.

People never get defensive with you about what you are saying  – they get defensive because of why they think you are saying it.

Erica Ariel Fox

We don’t negotiate well with others because we don’t know how to negotiate with ourselves.

Your job as a leader is to identify your key performance gaps and systematically develop yourself to close them.

Don Flow 

Confidence without challenge = complacency – challenge without confidence = fear.

Michael Jr.

Stop asking what you can get for yourself and ask what you can give from yourself.

Allen Catherine Kagina

We were naive enough to believe that God can change anything.

Wilfredo de Jesus

Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles.

With revelation comes responsibility.

Fear is the opposite of faith.

You cannot let your budget determine your faith.

Ivan Satyavrata

The greatest gift you can give to your followers is a safe place for them to soar to greater heights.

Tyler Perry

On critics:  God has prepared a table before me in the presence of my enemies. So watch me eat!

How can you pay attention to critics when you’re changing lives?

Louie Giglio

You don’t have to know everything about how to get to the top of the mountain in front of you in order to take the next step.

God cannot use a man greatly until he wounds him deeply.  (A. W. Tozer)

See you at next year’s Summit,  August 6-7 2015.

Associate Pastor – Discipleship.  The Church at LifePark

Professor of Discipleship, Columbia International University

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