For the next two days INJOY Stewardship Solutions is dispatching me to attend the 2019 Global Leadership Summit. This event will be two days of deep-dive learning and viewed by over 405,000 globally. As a special gift to everyone reading these posts, INJOY Stewardship Solutions offering a complimentary downloadable Ebook entitled “How To Negotiate A Pay Raise.” Click Here or on the image provided to Download this Free Resource!
The Summit’s next speaker was Liz Bohannon. Liz is the founder of Sseko Designs, a socially-conscious fashion brand that works to create leadership and educational opportunities for women across the globe. She believes that business is a powerful platform for social change and that girls are our future. She was named by Bloomberg Businessweek as a top social entrepreneur and by Forbes as a top 20 speaker. Her new book is Beginner’s Pluck: Build Your Life Of Purpose And Impact Now.
The following are 24 quotes from her entertaining session:
- Beginner’s Luck – The supposed phenomenon of novices experiencing success.
- Could I change my inner-beginner make me a more creative leader moving on?
- Beginner’s Pluck – Spirited and determined courage.
- I didn’t succeed despite my beginner’s status but because of it.
- 4 Stage of Learning
- Stage 1 – Unconscious Incompetence. You don’t know what you don’t know.
- Stage 2 – Conscious incompetence. You know what you don’t know. This is where insecurities rage.
- Stage 3 -Conscious Competence.I can do this but it takes effort. Keep practicing.
- Stage 4 – Unconscious Competence. I’m so good I can do this in my sleep. This is mastery and expertise.
- This is an insidious process.
- Your insecurities in Stage 4 are just as big because of a fear of risk of losing it all and being exposed.
- Mastery and expertise is not the goal of the leader but continual learning.
- Returning to Unconscious Incompetence, the magical land of beginners, is not a place of comfort but where learning begins again.
- Dream small.
- You’re never going to find your passion but you can build it.
- You are average. Statistically speaking this is how averages work. You don’t have to be above average to live an above-average selves.
- In dreaming of helping a million girls in poverty, the sacred value of helping one got lost.
- I need zero amounts of permission from my boss to making a single friend. This meant zero excuses.
- Nobody needs you or wants you to be their hero.
- Small dreams have a surprising power that launches us out of waiting to creating.
- We were created to live in community and doing the sacred dance of giving and receiving.
- Each of us in our own ways are terribly broken and incredibly bright.
- Leadership is not about building your own little kingdom abut about making the world better for those around you. But no one needs you to be their hero. Instead, inspire others to be the heroes of their own lives.
- Ducks fly together. Plucks fly together.
It has been an amazing start of the event!!! Lunch is now up. The afternoon’s next speaker is Jason Dorsey.
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