Category: <span>Global Leadership Summit</span>

Leadership is intentional influence.

Our ability to be effective as leaders is not just motivation, but also about acquiring the skills to do so competently.

Inspiration and vision are essential, but unless that goes into changed behavior, then we fail.

Human beings spend 3 billion hours playing online games every week.

7 million people (1 in 34) in the US are under the supervision of correctional system.

Worldwide obesity has doubled since 1980.

Smoking rates in the US dropped from 44% in the 1950s to 21% by 2008.

In 2007, 61% of Americans said religion was losing influence – Barna Study

In America, no door is closed. Americans will give you a chance.

Got advice from a great business leader: Start a business that is the lowest cost of entry.

NO – Next Opportunity

You are going to get “No”s. You need to keep moving forward.

You can have ideas, but you have to take action.

If we lead strong, we will lead people toward Jesus.

Jesus is saying follow me and I’m waving Hi. Our signals keep getting crossed.

We often end up getting our signals wrong.

I was getting all these facts about Jesus. I was stalking Jesus and was creeping us both out.

Spiritual leadership will always be different than secular leadership.

Who’d think sending a shepherd boy with a sling to take on the heavyweight champion of the world was a good idea?

Is it about building your kingdom or His kingdom?

1 Samuel 18:5-9

What more can he get but the kingdom?

I have the title, but whose kingdom is it?

There is more intelligence in our organizations than we can see with the naked eye. We have latent unused intelligence all around us.

Use your intelligence to amplify, to magnify, to multiply the capability of those around you.

When you lead like a multiplier, people around you literally get smarter.

Multipliers come from all walks of life.

Great leaders use their intelligence to grow the intelligence of others around them.

When you are leader, you are the CRO (Chief Reminding Officer).

People needed to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed – Samuel Johnson

It’s not about a good job or bad job. That lies in the eyes of the beholder. It’s about getting a job that is fulfilling.

Sign of a Miserable Job: Anonymity

Anonymity is one of the key reasons why people leave their job.

I’m glad that she did not go into all that resume stuff and she instead focused on the human part of my life.

I was raised in an immigrant family. I went through the public school system of New York City.

A city has nothing more important to do than to educate the next generation.

Leadership is getting more out of people than the science of management tells you that you can.

Leaders inspire people to reach beyond themselves.

I learned at Fort Benning that you get nowhere without followers that want to follow you.

I’ve built my leadership on my followers.

How are we making a contribution to society by what we’re doing?

Start with a purpose.

We are incurable learners.

Joshua 1 – be strong and courageous

What is going to be so bad that I’ll need all this courage?

Leadership demands a non-stop flow of fortitude from day 1 until the leader’s last day. Leadership is not for the feign of heart.

Nelson Mandela is a great example of courageous leadership.

Ending apartheid was a cause he said he was fully willing to die for.

Courage correlates to every single component of leadership.

Courage is critical to vision.