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 Day One final speaker was the incomparable Pat Lencioni. Pat is the author of eleven best-selling books with more than five million copies sold, including The Five Dysfunctions of a Team and The Advantage. Dedicated to providing organizations with ideas, products and services that improve teamwork, clarity and employee engagement, his leadership models serve a diverse base from Fortune 500 companies to professional sports organizations to churches.
The following are 21 quotes from his amazing session:
- A lot fewer people in the world should become a leader.
- Everyone has influence and they probably shouldn’t.
- Don’t be a leader unless you’re doing it for the right reason.
- If your “Why” or motive is off, the “How” won’t work or make any sense.
- The only reason to be a leader is to do whatever you need to do to serve the people you are leading.
- The other reason to lead is rewards-driven leadership. I get stuff for it.
- Many things we are supposed to do as a leader does not have rewards.
- You have to understand your leadership motive if you’re going to be a leader.
- Rewards-centered leaders don’t like to have uncomfortable, difficult conversations.They avoid them. Real people suffer.
- Rewards-centered leaders don’t like managing direct reports.The higher you go in an organization, the less you like to do this.
- If people aren’t managed, they lose motivation.There’s poltics. Real people suffer.
- Rewards-centered leaders don’t like meetings.
- How do you know a leader is good? A meeting.
- If you are a leader and you hate going to meetings, you probably need to change jobs.
- Rewards-centered leaders don’t like things that are tedious, boring, or things they don’t want to do.
- The cost of bad meetings is bad decisions.
- Rewards-centered leaders don’t like to do teambuilding.
- Rewards-centered leaders don’t like to repeat themselves.It’s not about you. It’s about the person receiving it.
- We as leaders have to ask ourselves, “Are we leading for the right reasons?”
- There is an evil one lurking who wants to convince us we are important and don’t need to do the wrong things.
- Servant leadership is the only kind there is.
Great first day of the Summit! Check back tomorrow for more speakers and leadership learnings.
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