The following are 20 Leadership Quotes From Angela Ahrendts And Juliet Funt – 2018 Global Leadership Summit:
Angela Ahrendts – Senior VP of Retail, Apple
- Instincts allow you to pursue the possibilities rather than protect the probabilities.
- It’s technology married with liberal arts that makes humanity sing.
- We as individuals have to shine our light [but also] keep evolving to keep pace.
- Have that time in the morning (an hour) before you start your day to grow yourself and focus on your core.
- As leaders our job is to connect, to communicate, to celebrate everything our team is achieving.
- “I can teach you anything but I can teach you to care.” – Angela’s dad
- If you care don’t talk above them. Talk to them.
- How hard is it to say, “Thank you.”
Juliet Funt – CEO of Whitespace at Work
- It is casualness that makes us comfortable.
- Casualness is killing us.
- The future of work will be simpler. It has to be.
- The early adopters and most effective companies do three things to make things simple. Do technology improvements. They do re-orgs. They do Six Sigma. These are bricks in building the house fo simplicity. The mortar is the human habit.
- Conformity – symmetric inertia. Nothing changes until everyone changes so nothing changes.
- The WhiteSpace 50/50 Rule – Anything that bothers you at work is 50% your fault until you take action.
- Even one person going against organizational conformity can change things 80%.
- Compulsivity – unnecessary communication.
- The Yellow List – Does this conversation need to happen right now? If not, put it on the Yellow List
- Control – The more we have our fingers in everything the slower things get.
- Second Tier Delegation – Don’t control your 1st Tier people. You have to delegate to the 2nd tier. This is the only way they will grow to 1st tier.
- Memory – Legacy is a story about you for which is yet to be written but which you hold the pen.
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