Global Leadership Summit Live Blog – 32 Leadership Quotes From Marcus Buckingham and John Maxwell

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 Marcus Buckingham.  Marcus is a global researcher, thought leader and leading expert on talent, focused on unlocking people’s strengths, increasing their performance, and pioneering the future of how people work. A former senior researcher at Gallup Organization, he now guides the vision of ADP Research Institute as Head of People + Performance.

The following are 79 Leadership Quotes From Marcus Buckingham’s Session on Resilience along with additional comments from John Maxwell:

John Maxwell

1. Difficult times are literally made for leaders. Leaders like a challenge.
2. Crisis moves all of us out of our comfort zone.
3. Crisis doesn’t make it good or bad but our response to it.
4. Most of the things in life you really want but you don’t have it right now, is outside of your comfort zone.
5. What we focus on, is what expands.
6. You don’t get rid of your fear but you also don’t get rid of your faith. You feed your faith.
7. What you don’t give attention to, shrinks.

Marcus Buckingham

Workplace Resilience Items

1. 1. I have all the freedom I need to decide how to get my work done.
   2. No matter what else is going on around me, I can stay focused on getting my work done.
   3. In the last week, I have felt excited to work every day.
   4. I always believe that things are going to work out for the best.
   5. My team leader tells me what I need to know before I need to know it.
   6. I trust my team leader.
   7. I am encouraged to take risks.
   8. Senior leaders are one step ahead of the events.
   9. Senior leaders always do what they say they’re going to do.
   10. I completely trust my company senior leaders.

All point to 3 points of Resilience

Questions 1-4 is How you feel about Yourself

Questions 5-7 is How you feel about your team leader

Questions 8-10 is How you feel about your senior leaders

1. Resilient isn’t a trait but a composite of those three.
2. Senior leaders can build resilience in their people through vivid foresight. We fear the unknown.  Senior leaders traffic in the unknown.
3. You follow senior leaders when they can tell you what’s around the corner.
4. Our confidence builds in senior leaders when they visibly follow through.
5. Team leaders should have anticipatory communication.
6. Check in with each person alone for 15 minutes. Check on their short-term priorities and how you can help them.
7. Frequency of touch base rather than quality creates resilience.
8. Team leaders are responsible to foster psychological safety.
9. Risk and resilience are intricately linked. Don’t cut their legs off.
10. People only feel resilient when they know the parts of the world they can control.
11. The routine of a resilient person is stress and recover.
12. Think of your life as a series of sprints.
13. Different parts of our life have different feelings and different outcomes.
14. The most resilient people know some things are just one lane. They know there are other lanes.
15. The most resilient people have learned how to use life to fill them up and strengthen you.

What a great talk!  The morning’s final speaker is Nona Jones and coming up next.  Make sure you check back regularly for live blog updates.

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