In an effort to add value to pastors and church leaders, INJOY Stewardship Solutions has dispatched me to attend the Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit. During the next three days, I will be bringing the top leadership lessons from the incredible faculty the WCA has assembled.
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The afternoon’s first session was conducted by Adam Grant. Adam is the youngest tenured professor at Wharton School of Business. Named one of BusinessWeek’s favorite professors and one of the world’s 40 best business professors under 40, he is the best-selling author of Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success.
The following are 30 Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Adam Grant from the Global Leadership Summit:
- We live in a connected world. We lead in a connected world.
- There are three styles of interaction – Takers ,Givers and Matchers.
- Takers think about every interaction as taking something from others while giving nothing back.
- Givers enjoy helping others and often do so with no strings attached.
- Matchers tried to keep an even balance of Takers and Givers. Quid Pro Quo.
- Your style is the way you treat most of the people most of the time. It’s your default.
- It’s dangerous to be generous.
- The givers are the worst performers. They are so busy doing someone else’s job they don’t get their own work done.
- Many of us think we’re givers when we’re actually thinkers.
- If you want to boost a company’s products and performance, get more givers.
- Givers fail to secure their oxygen masks before helping others.
- Takers rise quickly and fall quickly. They fall to the hands of matchers.
- Matchers often destroy takers with gossip.
- Most people operate by default as matchers.
- The people who blow the whistle the loudest on cheaters are actually other cheaters.
- The best results actually the givers. Givers are over represented on both extremes.
- Givers often fail in the short run but excel in the long run.
- The time a giver spends solving other people’s problems helps solve the organization’s problems.
- The most important decision you can make as a leader is getting the right people on the bus.
- It’s nice to have the right people on the bus. It’s critical to keep the wrong people off the bus.
- Put one taker on the team and paranoia starts to spread.
- A healthy organization is not about getting more givers on the team. It’s about getting the takers off the team. The matchers then become givers.
- Disagreeable givers give the feedback no one wants to hear. They have a bad interface but a great operating system.
- If someone is nice to you it does not mean they actually care about you.
- Most people project their own motivations onto others.
- Takers expect more selfishness from others. It’s part of their justification for being selfish.
- Do more 5-minute favors. Small acts adding significant value. Micro-kindness.
- One of the best things you can do as a leader is ask for help.
- If you’re a matcher, you can only go to people you have traded favors with.
- Takers want to sink all other ships like Battleship. Givers ask how can I be the rising tide that lifts all boats.
Up next is Dr. Brene Brown. And if you have not already, don’t forget to click the image below for your free resource from INJOY Stewardship Solutions.
