Live Blog From The 2014 Global Leadership Summit – 23 Leadership Quotes From Patrick Lencioni

In an effort to add maximum value to pastors and church leaders, INJOY Stewardship Solutions has dispatched me to attend the Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit.  During the next two days, I will be bringing some of the top leadership lessons from the incredible faculty the WCA has assembled.

The final speaker for the incredible first day was WCA favorite, best-selling author and management consultant Patrick Lencioni who spoke on The Most Dangerous Mistakes Leaders Make.  Some topics need no explanation.  The following are 23 leadership quotes and lessons that will challenge any leader.

Jim Mellado of Compassion International

• You can handle any challenge as long as you know God called you to take that hill.
• Successions often go terribly bad.
• My mom grew up in poverty.  She knew what it was like to clean a dirt floor.
• When someone grows up in poverty they never believe it’s going to be an asset to their children.

Patrick Lencioni

1. One of the most dangerous mistakes leaders make is becoming a leader for the wrong reason.
2. Some people it should be illegal for them to be a leader.
3. Why should a person want to be a leader?  They want to sacrifice themselves for the good of others even when they don’t know if they’ll get a return on investment.
4. The cost of people becoming leaders for themselves it is going to leave a trail of tears behind.
5. Leaders should not go into it because they think it should be good for them.
6. When people calculate the ROI to leadership, that’s economics.  That’s not leadership.
7. I’m tired of hearing about servant leadership because there’s not another kind.
8. The only payoff for leadership is eternal.
9. A mistake leaders make is they are never vulnerable.  It destroys trust.
10. The people who work for us know we’re sweating before we do.
11. You cant’ be too vulnerable as a leader.
12. People expect us to be competent.  Not perfect but vulnerable.
13. If you’re a leader and not trying to get better, you don’t need to be a leader.
14. Pastors, you’re a shepherd and a spiritual manager.  Tough job.  You have to be extra-vulnerable as a pastor, not less vulnerable.
15. A dangerous mistakes leaders make is making leadership too important.
16. Most of the time we’re thinking about leadership we’re thinking about it at work.  Not at home.
17. Our identity can become wrapped up in being a leader when it should be wrapped in higher things like a child of God, husband and father.
18. We should ask our families, “Do you think my job is more important than you?”
19. At the end of our lives we don’t want our employees to come around our bed and say what a great manager I was.
20. Why do companies get put ahead of your family.  My employees thank me more than my children do.  They’re also nicer to me.
21. The antidote to pride is humility.
22. By introducing humility, Jesus perfected leadership.
23. My success as a leader is being completely docile to the cause of Jesus.  And if Jesus is calling me to be a failure, that’s OK.

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