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Strive Masiyiwa at the 2018 Global Leadership Summit

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Here are my notes from his talk at the 2018 global leadership Summit. There is so much going on in Africa that the rest of the world needs to pay attention to and learn from.

Strive Masiyiwa notes page 1
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I love his philosophy that if your business solves the problem people will seek you out. He wasn’t passionate about cell phones or education, he just wanted to solve problems.

Strive Masiyiwa notes page 3

How about that last line for employee appreciation?

Respect, with reverence, the people that work for us – especially volunteers. They could all go elsewhere to work toward someone else’s vision.

Strive Masiyiwa 2018 GLS

Moses’ Grandpa, Worthy Work, and Your Identity

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The Hebrews slaves in Egypt had awful lives. The life of any slave is awful, but when the population of slaves outnumbers that of free people, tyranny and opression increase to keep the masses at bay.

The rich Egyptians finally hated the Hebrews because of the power and wrath of the Hebrew god. Plague after plague moved everyone except for Pharoah to run them out of the country.

In the wildnerness, the Hebrews made an ark of gold to be the seat of God’s mercy. The Ark of the Covenant was the place where God would come, sit between the angels, and meet with mankind.

Carried only by Levites, and untouchable by the Jordan River, where did the Ark come from? Did any of those slaves know what the fruit of their labor would become?

Hopefully, this will encourage you any time you feel like you are in a meaningless, dead-end job. Your work, your service, is not worthless.

‘Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, many people saw the signs he was performing and believed in his name. But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all people. He did not need any testimony about mankind, for he knew what was in each person.’

John 2:23-25

Angela Ahrendts Interview at the 2018 Global Leadership Summit

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Here are the notes from the Angela Ahrendts interview at the 2018 Global Leadership Summit. She was interviewed by John C. Maxwell, which added his own colors to the conversation. She manages 66,000 people in Apple Retail space and a lot of the dialog they had that I didn’t catch was about the way they have a feedback system for Apple store employees to communicate up the ladder.

Here is her profile on LinkedIn

After the notes I have her TEDx talk on human connections.

Angela Ahrendts GLS interview

Craig Groeschel Opening Talk at the 2018 Global Leadership Summit

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Here are my notes from Craig Groeschel’s opening talk at the Global Leadership Summit (GLS 2018).

The opening addressed the Hybels scandal directly and I thought a lot of what he said about it was good. Nobody can accuse them of not addressing the issue as fully as it needed to be addressed at this event. At the same time, they moved on to the business of the day and didn’t dwell on failures of the past.

Craig Groschel GLS 2018 Notes

Yes, I’m convinced Craig Groeschel has three lungs. In the next 2 days, profound humility and furious resolve would come up a few more times. The line after the first few notes here is where he turned a corner and began his actual talk. Before that was intro.

Craig Groschel GLS 2018 Notes

That whole concept of

I notice.

You matter.

Is so relatable. Every part of any job I didn’t like could come back to those 2 traits lacking.

Craig Groschel GLS 2018 Notes

Here are links to the Bain Group Leadership Model that Craig Groeschel mentioned in his GLS talk.

Bain Leadership Model – 33 consistent ways leaders inspire

Craig Groeschel’s podcast about inspiring leader’s from August 2018

 

Craig Groschel GLS 2018 Notes
Craig Groschel GLS 2018 Notes

So many good notes on this page. The trick is that I’m not typically the leader that is the bottleneck – I’ve worked for the leaders that were the bottlenecks. Hopefully, I’ll learn from the good ones instead.

The Grander Vision #1 piece was amazing. A judge is viewing arrested prostitutes as sex trafficking victims and started a program to treat them as such.

WCAGLS14: Joseph Grenny, The Art of Crucial Conversations

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First up, Friday morning, was Joseph Grenny and Mastering the Art of Crucial Conversations. You can tell I liked this one a lot because I took 4 pages of notes. The best talks either get zero or a ton of notes.

One great takeaway was this:

“Everyone tells the truth in the hallway, where it doesn’t help anybody.”

Of course, we think it doesn’t hurt anybody either, which is why we say it in the hallway.

Read through this and see if any of it applies to your work/family/church. I’m sure some of it will.

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Work It

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Ephesians 2 gives a great balance to some order that a lot of people have screwed up.

Ephesians 2:8-10 ESV

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Let’s take it bit by bit.

Ephesians 2:8-9 NET

For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God; it is not from works, so that no one can boast.

There was a time when people asked Jesus, “What is the work that God requires?” and Jesus’ answer was almost too simple: “Believe in the One that He sent.” Faith is the closest we come to salvation by works. Faith that God did what He said He did is all that is required of us to be saved. In Romans 10:9, Paul says “If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” So there is no work on our part to get ourselves saved.

Ephesians 2:10 NET

For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we may do them.

If I make something beautiful–if I brew up for you the best cup of coffee you’ve ever tasted, who gets the credit? Does the coffee get the credit for tasting good? NO‽ I get the credit because A.) I made great coffee and B.) I gave you some.

It is the same way with Christians and God. He saved us by grace SO THAT we could work for Him and bring Him honor, glory, attention, fame, etc. Our works are a result of our salvation, not the road to salvation.

BUT our salvation isn’t just a happy face and a get out of Hell free card. Our salvation is a commissioning. Our salvation is an inauguration.

We are saved in order to do the works that God wants to do! Not that He needs us, but that He wants to share in the action with us.

That is the double extra grace of it all. Not only do we get be with God, but we join Him in His glorious work!