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 event’s next speaker was Beth Comstock. Beth is the former GE Vice Chair and CMO, where—for two decades—she led efforts to transform a process-heavy culture to a faster, more agile and inventive one. Prior to GE, Comstock was President of Integrated Media at NBC Universal, overseeing the company’s digital efforts, including early development of hulu.com. Listed on Forbes’ “100 Most Powerful Women” and PR Week’s “20 Most Influential Communicators,” Comstock helps incubate new companies and advises business leaders to accelerate growth and innovation. She is also a Director for Nike, a top-ten LinkedIn influencer and her first book, Imagine it Forward: Courage, Creativity, and the Power of Change, offers lessons from a life of continual transformation that inspire others to embrace our rapidly changing world.
The following are 30 Leadership Quotes From Beth Comstock’s Session as well as comments from Danielle Strickland on Hope:
Danielle Strickland
- Cultivate hope.
- 70-80% of your thought life is based on the past or the future. We need leaders who will focus on the present.
- Hope will take your influence to the next level.
- Faith, hope and love are the leadership trifecta.
- Hope is cultivated in the soil of gratitude.
- Hope flourishes when it’s lived in the present tense.
- Hope is contagious when it’s shared.
- Be a leader who invests in what matters forever.
Beth Comstock
- When companies don’t innovate, they die.
- Change is a sign of resilience.
- A test of longevity is how you navigate change.
- The good thing about change is it sometimes causes us to confront things we would normally not.
- In change you have to find a story that gives people hope to where you’re going to be.
- You can’t have all the answers. Use curiosity as the lead… You’re creating a path of discovery.
- Fear is a basic human instinct. It motivates us more than we care to admit.
- Leaders need to admit they’re afraid every now and then.
- “Here’s what we know and here’s what we don’t know.” Leaders need to say this during times of change.
- A Spark is someone you’re bringing in to spark a new perspective… You’re looking for someone with expertise. Then you have to do the work because they do not know your company.
- The notion of discovery is the joy of life.
- Speed to learn is a competitive advantage.
- Get comfortable with “Maybe”. Get comfortable living in hypothesis.
- Mental Grazing is just taking in little bits and pieces.
- You can Mental Graze digitally… Read a book on physics if you’re a designer. Ask yourself different questions.
- Everyone has to imagine it forward. Have a vision for where the world is going and how you are going to get there.
- Investors don’t run your company.
- Think and operate in two speeds – Now and What’s Next.
- We’re going to budget every year, maybe 20% in a good year – 5% in a bad year, for experiments.
- One of the most critical things are Feedback Loops.
- The faster you get feedback, the better you should learn. The best thing you can do is ask your team, “Tell the one thing you don’t want me to hear.”
- How you navigate change – where you’ve been, where you’re going and who can help you? That’s how you craft a story.
What a great pair of talks! The next speaker is Marcus Buckingham. Make sure you check back regularly for live blog updates.
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