Session 12: Henry Cloud They bring Henry Cloud in at the end to help you deal with everything you’ve learned. How in the world do you survive when you live halfway between (you wish halfway) where you are and where you want to be? Leaders take ownership of things. They take responsibility for things. Sometimes […]
WCAGLS Session 11: Oscar Muriu on Leadership
Session 11: Oscar Muriu Nairobi church is a network of over 40 churches. They are even going to America to plant churches! 5 things about leadership development Matthew 9:37-38 Pray that the Lord of the harvest would send out laborers! The size of your harvest depends on how many leaders you have. The problem isn't […]
WCAGLS Session 10: Dr. Brown on Shame
Session 10: Dr. Brene' Brown: Shame After this intro, I wish I would have not stopped listening to her TED talk halfway through. She is a vulnerability researcher. She studies vulnerabilty, courage, shame. She heard sea-level, down to earth. What they said was C Level, CEO, CTO, CIO. "I said, 'you don't understand, I don't […]
WCAGLS Session 9: Vijay Govindarajan: Innovation
Session 9: Vijay Govindarajan: Innovation Innovation is reacting to change. How many things you are doing today go in box one? Manage the Present. (efficiency) Selectively forget the past Shape the future How do you do innovation and efficiency all at the same time? That's what counts. Continuously improving the quality of what we do […]
WCAGLS Session 8: Joseph Grenny : Influence
Session 8: Joseph Grenny Leadership is more than being motivating. Courage, inspiration, people skills are all good. Influence is the new currency that trumps authority. people spend 3 billion hours a week playing video games 1 in 34 in the United States are incarcerated Worldwide obesity has doubled since 1980 smoking droppped from 44% in […]
WCAGLS Session 7: Mark Burnett
It’s hard to get people to talk about the Bible sometimes, but it’s easy to strike up a conversation about the Bible TV show. … It’s so crazy how it’s so easy to judge, but this guy’s work is changing the freakin world!
WCAGLS Session 6: Bob Goff
Session 6 Bob Goff "I'm emotionally incontinent!" Getting our signals wrong. In Uganda, our american motion for hello is Ugandan for "Follow Me!" Stalkers find out all kinds of information about people they don't spend time with. "I was stalking Jesus, and it was freaking both of us out!" 1 John 3:16 – we should […]
WCAGLS Session 2: Colin Powell
WCAGLS Session 2: Colin Powell He has no podium to hide behind. No podium to hold notes. #rocks I couldn't get into West Point, I never even tried. He wasn't allowed into a big military college because I was African-American. I didn't say, "self, I think I'm going to grow up and be the chairman […]
Global Leadership Summit 2011, Part 5: Steven Furtick
His talk was really good. After a day of some religious and worldly wisdom it was really good to focus on the fact that the most important things in this world can only be done by God. It’s worth it to read this passage from 2 Kings 3
Global Leadership Summit 2011, Part 1: Bill Hybels
Here are my notes from the Willow Creek Association Global Leadership Summit. If you saw me tweeting last week with the tag #WCAGLS it was related to this. I took about 50 pages of notes, so I realized I needed to break them up some. These are my notes from the first session which was […]