25 Leadership Quotes from Rasmus Ankersen And David Livermore – 2018 Global Leadership Summit

The following are 15 Leadership Quotes from Rasmus Ankersen – 2018 Global Leadership Summit.  He is a high-performance expert whose presentation was fascinating.  My next purchase will be his book The Gold Mine Effect: Crack the Secrets of High Performance.  

1. Human beings are living longer and longer.  Companies are living shorter and shorter.
2. When an organization becomes successful, it doesn’t necessarily fight its competitors anymore.  It fights itself.
3. Outcome Bias is the assumption that good results are always the example of good decisions and good performance.
4. When the season is played justice prevails.
5. Football (soccer) is a game built-in with a huge amount of randomness.
6. The fewer goals there are in a sport the more the randomness.
7. The best team wins less often in a lower scoring sport like football than a high scoring sport like basketball.
8. Success turns luck into genius.
9. How many leaders confuse good leadership with good market conditions.
10. You should treat success with the same skepticism as failure.
11. Never trust success blindly.
12. We hesitate to improve until we have a burning platform.
13. A performance center should not be designed for comfort, but hard work.
14. When we become successful in organizations, sometimes comfort becomes more important than improvement.
15. Rethink your potential by making the world bigger and making yourself smaller.

The following are 10 Leadership Quotes from David Livermore, President of Cultural Intelligence Center

1. Cultural Intelligence – The capability to work and relate effectively in culturally diverse backgrounds.
2. The #1 characteristic of the culturally intelligent is their curiosity.
3. CQ Knowledge – Your understanding about how cultures are similar and different.
4. CQ Strategy – Your awareness and ability to plan for multicultural interactions.
5. Sketch a brief plan when doing routine tasks with an unfamiliar culture.
6. CQ Action – Your ability to adapt when relating and working in a cultural different environment.
7. A culturally effective leader does some adaptation without losing their authenticity.
8. Diversity does not equal innovation.
9. Homogenous teams innovated more than diverse teams unless the teams had culturally intelligent leaders.  When diverse teams had culturally intelligent leaders they were three times more innovative than homogenous teams.
10. Everyone can improve their cultural intelligence.

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