50 Leadership Quotes From Craig Groeschel’s Closing Session Of The 2018 Global Leadership Summit

Following his tour de force 72 Challenging And Truthful Leadership Quotes From Craig Groeschel’s Opening Leadership Summit Session, Craig closed out the Summit as well.  My sense is Craig really showed pastoral leadership during these two days and walked a local church (Willow Creek) and over 200,000 leaders around the world through a time of repentance, healing, and personal growth.

Many of his thoughts came on from his upcoming book Hope in the Dark: Believing God Is Good When Life Is Not.  As you will read below, it was a life-changing session as well.

The following are 50 Leadership Quotes From Craig Groeschel’s Closing Session Of The 2018 Global Leadership Summit:

1. We all make a mess of our life.  We all mess up.  We all feel dirty or ashamed.
2. The good news is… if you simply call out to Him, He will hear the cry of your hearts.  He will forgive your sins.
3. There is One who cares.  He is close.  You may just want to call on Him.
4. We want to eradicate Bible poverty.
5. 81,000 people downloaded the UVersion Bible app in three days.
6. The difference between a good leader and great leader is one who learns to anticipate rather than react.
7. The lifespan of your current systems, structure and strategy is diminishing as we speak.
8. If we are not changing, we are falling further behind.
9. In anticipating the future, what you know may be wrong.
10. If we think we are experts, we are susceptible to the curse of confidence.
11. Those who are overly confident about the future find it difficult to receive feedback.
12. Those who are overly confident about the future are answering more questions than we are asking.
13. Those who are overly confident about the future assume too much and stop innovating.
14. The Three D’s Of Anticipatory Leadership – Develop, Discern, Disrupt
15. Develop Situation Awareness. – We can assess and understand the true current state of our organization.
16. We don’t know what we don’t know.
17. Self-awareness is incredibly difficult.
18. People who ranked themselves as the most skilled are usually the least skilled.
19. The most capable of all usually don’t know it.
20. The best indicator of high-potential is genuine humility, not false confidence.
21. Most leaders could learn from their mistakes if they weren’t so busy denying them.
22. Have the integrity to tell the truth.  No one lies better than leaders.
23. Ask yourself if something is not working, “WHY???!!!!”  Have the courage to tell the truth.
24. If you don’t know why something is working, you won’t know how to fix it when it isn’t. – Andy Stanley
25. You do not ask questions to confirm your bias.  You ask questions to get to the deep root of the issue.
26. Kodak thought they were in the film business.  They were actually in the memory business.
27. Discern future threats and opportunities.
28. What is a threat to one organization is simultaneously an opportunity to another company.
29. Start to learn to anticipate in areas outside your area of expertise.
30. Embody healthy skepticism and lead with bold optimism.
31. What we are doing now will not work forever.
32. Fear is a choice.  So is faith.
33. New challenges always equal new opportunities.
34. When you see a problem, you train yourself to think opportunity.
35. Innovation is born out of limitation.  Limitation is the breeding ground for innovation.
36. Innovation is seeing what everybody sees and thinking what no one else thought.
37. Disrupt what is with what could be.  Break some rules.  The greatest innovators and greatest leaders always break the rules.
38. I think people want more Jesus and less cool.
39. People want something in the church building the world does not have.
40. Contemporary is the new traditional.  Style is not the key.  Substance is the key.
41. If we did not engage people in the 167 hours of the week, we will not get them on the 1 hour on Sunday.
42. One of the greatest forms of discipleship is helping people be needed and know.
43. Christianity isn’t just listening to a podcast but engaging in community.
44. We need to give people a place where they belong before they believe.
45. We are the light of the world.  When the world gets darker, the church shines brighter.
46. What is true, current state of your organization?  Why?
47. If you were starting now, what are your currently doing you would not do?  Why are you still doing it?
48. If you were starting over today, what would you attempt?  When will you attempt it?
49. Don’t whine about what is.  Create what is supposed to be.
50. If you wait until you are 100% sure before you try something new, you will be too late.

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