For the next two days I will be live blogging the Global Leadership Summit. This is a special moment as the Summit will be celebrating its 25th year of investing in leaders. As we prepare to learn from this year’s speaker lineup, I want to take a look back at last year’s best leadership quotes.
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The afternoon’s first speaker was Rory Vaden. A recognized expert in business strategy and leadership development, Rory is the New York Times best-selling author of Take the Stairs, and a Hall of Fame speaker. His insights have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CNN, Entrepreneur, Inc, on Fox News. He was also named as one of the top 100 leadership speakers in the world by Inc. Magazine and Entrepreneur Magazine calls him “One of the world’s leading productivity thinkers.”
The following are 20 Leadership Quotes From Rory Vaden’s Incredible Session on Time Management:
- We know more than we ever have about time management… Every thing you know about time management is wrong.
- Everything we’ve ever heard about time management is all logical. But in reality, how we choose to spend our time is emotional.
- This is how the world’s most successful leaders think about time.
- Efficiency Limitation – The amount of busy work always expands to fill the amount of time we allow to be available.
- Prioritizing is good. But the Prioritizing Limitation is prioritizing does not create more time. It only puts one thing in front of the other.
- You can’t solve today’s time management problems using yesterday’s time management strategies.
- Multipliers don’t make decision based upon urgency and importance. They have created a third category called Significance.
- Urgency is how soon does something matter. Importance is how much does it matter. Significance is how long does something matter. Does it affect the future? This makes it possible to multiply your time.
- You multiply your time by giving yourself the emotional permission to spend time on things today that will give you more time tomorrow.
- The Focus Funnel: 1. Can I ELIMINATE it? Can I live without it? Saying “No” today creates more time in the future. Can I AUTOMATE it? 3. Can I DELEGATE it? Must this task be done now (concentrate) or can it be done later (procrastinate)?
- There’s basically three different types of people when it comes to money. Lower-middle class are governed by short-term immediate impulses. Middle-class ask if they have the money. Wealthy people see if the money could be leveraged elsewhere. A wealthy person’s second question is is a $5 cup of coffee today worth $50 in 10 years due to compounding interest.
- Automation is to your time is exactly to your time as compound interest is to your money. Anything you create a process for today creates more time in the future.
- RTI – Return on Time Invested
- You can delegate anything.
- It is often faster and better to do it yourself twice. But it is not true if you do the Significance Calculation.
- 30X Rule is the amount of time training someone to do the task for you.
- The next level of results require the next level of thinking.
- The next generation of leadership is not just attached to saving money but saving time.
- “Leadership isn’t about getting things done right. It’s about getting things done through people.” – Andy Stanley
- A priority is any task that rises to a level of significance that is beyond the convenience of what your schedule allows. A priority is protected from the possibility of distraction.
- God’s first command to all of humanity is be fruitful and multiply.
What a great talk! The afternoon’s next speaker is Sadie Robertson Huff. Make sure you check back regularly for live blog updates.
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