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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Next up was Jim Collins, author of the classics Built To Last, Good To Great, and Great By Choice. I was really looking forward to this and Jim did not disappoint.
The following are 44 Leadership Quotes From Jim Collins from the Global Leadership Summit:
- I believe questions are better than answers.
- What cause do you Serve with Level 5 ambition?
- Every single kid, no matter what zip code or family situation, deserves a shot at a K-12 education.
- If you have a charismatic cause you do not need to be a charismatic leader.
- Personal humility, the X-factor of great leadership.
- The effect of service, a commitment to cause bigger than yourself, runs through West Point. They know some of them might die in that service.
- We were not looking for Level 5 service in organizations. It came to us.
- Money is like blood, food, oxygen and water. They are necessary for life. But they are not the point of life.
- To serve is to live.
- Will you settle for being a good leader, or will you grow to become a great leader?
- Leadership is not personality.
- It is not position. It is not rank. It is not power.
- True leadership is only when people follow when they would have the option not to follow.
- “In my 35 years of service I don’t ever recall telling anyone, ‘That’s an order.’” – Colin Powell
- As a leader you have to know what must be done. You must know what must be done and you must be right.
- As a leader you must make people want to do what must be done.
- Most great leaders do not start as great leaders. They grow into great leaders. Will you do whatever it takes to scale your leadership as the demands of your enterprise grows?
- If your BHAGs are big enough, you’re going to need to grow a lot.
- How can you reframe failure as Growth, in pursuit of a BHAG?
- I am not failing. I’m growing. It is making me stronger.
- How can you succeed by helping others succeed?
- We succeed at our very best only when we help others succeed.
- Your response should be, “Let me help you.”
- Create the idea, “You Are Never Alone.”
- If you want build a culture of engaged leaders and a great place to work, you need to spend time thinking about three things: Service, Growth, Communal Service.
- It is very difficult to have a meaning life without meaningful work.
- Have you found your Hedgehog – your Personal Hedgehog?
- What are you encoded for? What you are put here for may be different than what you are good at.
- Something we should all experience at some point is getting fired.
- He (Steve Jobs) had an unquenchable love of his work.
- The most efficient animal on earth is a man on his bicycle.
- True creators stay in the game.
- If you believe life comes down to a single hand, you can lose very easily.
- Real creative impact accelerates after 50 (years of age).
- Will you build your Unit – your minibus – Into a Pocket of Greatness?
- Great leadership doesn’t happen without great leadership at the unit level.
- Great leadership doesn’t happen by focusing on your career. But by building a unit in becoming a pocket of greatness.
- Every responsibility you get make it a pocket of greatness.
- The number one executive lesson of building a great pocket is determining who should be in the right seats on the bus.
- The thing I am most proud of in my life is my marriage.
- When you are suffering at the end of the race, you are not running for you.
- The greatest leaders and people I know have found a way to make a contribution on real life, flesh and blood people.
- How will you change the lives of others?
- Life is people.
Up next is Ed Catmull. And if you have not already, don’t forget to click the image below for your free resource from INJOY Stewardship Solutions.
