Live Blog: 2016 Leadership Summit – 42 Leadership Quotes From Patrick Lencioni

In an effort to add value to pastors and church leaders during the next three days, I will be bringing the top leadership quotes and lessons from the incredible faculty at the Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit.

The Global Leadership Summit is a two-day event telecast from Willow Creek Community Church’s campus to hundreds of locations across the globe.  An estimated 305,000 leaders are expected to participate.

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The opening day concluded with Summit favorite Patrick Lencioni.  Just in case you need an introduction, Patrick is the author of 10 business books that have sold nearly 5 million copies, including The Five Dysfunctions of a Team.  The Wall Street Journal called him one of the most sought after business speakers in America, and he consults on topics related to leadership and organizational health.  Patrick’s upcoming release, The Ideal Team Player, explores the three essential virtues that accelerate teamwork and predict team success.

The following are 42 Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Patrick Lencioni from the 2015 Global Leadership Summit:

Bill Hybels

• 65 million people have been displaced from their homes. Half are kids.
• God redeems pain. He takes what you went through and He takes it and makes it into something good for someone else.

Patrick Lencioni

1. The Ideal Team Player is Humble.
2. You are more interested others than yourself.
3. Lacking self-confidence is a violation of humility.
4. A person who denies their own abilities tend not to speak up at meetings.
5. Humility is not thinking less of yourself. It is thinking of yourself less.
6. The Ideal Team Player is Hungry.
7. They hate the idea of anyone thinking they are a slackard.
8. The Ideal Team Player is Smart.
9. This is not intellectual smarts. This is people smarts, common sense about people.
10. A person who is intelligent but does not treat people well is not smart.
11. The Pawn is humble but not hungry or smart.
12. The Bulldozer is hungry but is not humble or smart.
13. They get things done but there is a trail of dead bodies behind them.
14. The Charmer is smart but not humble or hungry.
15. We cannot tolerate people who are extremely lack in one of these areas.
16. The Accidental Mess Maker are humble and hungry but aren’t smart.
17. At least their intentions are good.
18. The Lovable Slacker is humble and smart but they’re not hungy.
19. These people survive in organizations. They usually do enough just to get by.
20. If people have humility I have a lot of time for them.
21. The Skillful Politician is hungry and smart but not humble.
22. They’re hard-driving and make people think they’re about the team.
23. They don’t care about anybody but themselves but they hide it.
24. When we develop our people, we have to have the courage to talk to them and let them know.
25. We have to have the courage as a leader to remind people they’re doing it again.
26. Generally we overemphasize technical skills.
27. We tend to over-focus that which is measurable and you can put on a resume.
28. When you interview people, ask them the questions more than once.
29. A big part of humility is forgiveness.
30. Stop doing silo interviews.
31. Scare people with sincerity.
32. My three ideal team players – Steph Curry, Alan Mulally, Woody
33. Steph Curry doesn’t like attention.
34. He is also one of the hardest working guys.
35. Alan is one of the humblest people I’ve ever met.
36. He doesn’t know who he is.
37. Alan only missed six staff meetings in 38 years.
38. People who are workaholics have something missing in their heart.
39. The persecution is arriving here too.
40. If you are a follower of Jesus, we are in the Golden Age of Leadership.
41. Bitterness and caving in are the two things we can’t do.
42. May all of us leaders be willing to suffer for Jesus.

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