Live Notes From Leadercast – 25 Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Seth Godin

Today I am being dispatched by Injoy Stewardship Solutions (ISS) to attend the Chick-Fil-A Leadercast.  In an effort to grow in my skills to better add value to pastors and church leaders, I will be live blogging throughout.

The afternoon session’s first speaker was Seth Godin, marketing guru and author of two of my favorite books Tribes and Linchpin.

Before getting to Seth’s thoughts on being a brave and bold leader, INJOY Stewardship Solutions is offering a FREE download of Church Branding 101.  In this resource Ken Wilson, Director of NewSpring Creative, will be walking us through NewSpring Church’s recent rebranding process.  Click here or on the image above to sign up.

The following are  25 Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Seth Godin:

1. I wasn’t brave enough to fail.
2. Bravery is not for other people anymore. Bravery is for us.
3. Golf is the single worst spectator sport there is.
4. We weave together little bits of interest in business today.
5. What most of us do all day is carry around bowls of frogs and try to keep them from jumping out of the bowl.
6. Growth and change and magic comes from letting some frogs jump out of the bowl. We’re done trying to be perfect.
7. Art is when a human being does something for the first time.
8. Are we going to make something worth talking about?
9. When we are all-in then we might do something people are willing to talk about.
10. If ideas don’t spread they die.
11. When Guttenberg created the printing press the illiteracy rate was 93%.
12. It’s always too soon. We can be prepared but will never be ready. When we do our best work we cause change.
13. If you do not know who you are changing you are hiding from change.
14. Change has a twin sister named tension.
15. When being present when other people are uncomfortable that’s when change happens.
16. If you see five cows, 10 cows, 100 cows, it doesn’t matter. They’re all the same.
17. Do you know what a purple cow is – remarkable. The definition of remarkable is something is worth making a remark about.
18. To make something remarkable, it takes obsession. Obsessive people do remarkable things.
19. Each of us have the ability to be a bridge.
20. There are other people who will race to the bottom faster than you. The problem with racing to the bottom is you might win. Worse, you might finish second.
21. Dreams don’t take bravery. Dreams don’t take guts. Dreams take doing better than you’re doing right now and doing it a little bit better.
22. I’m not sure how to do this. Follow me. We’ll figure it out together.
23. Big ideas now enable us to connect.
24. When we do something brave, we don’t dare speak up.
25. I’m arguing not that you be remarkable. You should be unreasonable in your desire to own it.

It has been an incredible day.

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