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.
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Day 2’s first afternoon speaker was Kaka. A Brazilian football (soccer) legend, Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite, famously known as Kaká, is one of only eight players in history to have won the Ballon d’Or, the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA Champions League. As the first sportsperson to amass 10 million followers on Twitter, he is considered one of the most famous athletes in the world.
The following are 31 Leadership Quotes From Kaka’s session with additional comments from Dr. Henry Cloud:
Dr. Henry Cloud
- Once you get fragmentation you lose cohesion.
- Are we making sure the fragmentation is losing connection? Are we making space for connection?
- Fragmentation, people lose what they used to have control of. Help your people define what they do have control of to drive our mission forward.
- You’ve got to provide spaces where people feel like they’re failing and hurting.
- Work on high messaging, high execution of whatever you’re doing. But make sure people are getting more connected, not less; they’re getting more control of what matters; they’re getting more heard and understood in the shame and pain of what they’re going through; they’re getting to use their gifts in some way that good happens.
Kaka
- In football you can have all sorts of leaders and it’s during those tough moments when you look and see those have have become affected by the situation, and other players who say, “No! We’re not going to lose again!” So we had leaders who inspired them and if they wouldn’t let the pressure get to them, I would let it get to me either.
- So it’s really encouraging to look into your teammates eyes and seek that attitude and confidence that it’s going to be OK.
- These kind of leaders that we have on the field in our businesses, our churches, are extremely important because they are the ones who will steer us in the direction we need to go.
- Motivation is what comes from the outside…. Inspiration is something that’s inside of me. It’s connected to my purpose in life, my beliefs, things that I want to accomplish or dream of, things that make me have focus and discipline.
- Humility is essential in leadership, at least the leadership I believe in, the leadership which follows the example given by Jesus, a leadership that serves others.
- You must be humble to be a leader who serves others.
- Listening is part of being humble, recognizing when you’ve done something wrong, owning up to your failures, asking for forgiveness, and saying “I’m sorry.”
- You have to decide what you want to be criticized for.
- My faith is built on a solid foundation. I feel confident in what I’m talking about and fighting for.
- I realized that what bothered me the most (criticism) was actually true.
- You’re always going to get feedback from a coach.
- The best coach I ever had was the best at managing people, although he wasn’t the strongest coach tactically, he was and is the most brilliant at managing people.
- It was Carlo Ancelotti, I had my best performance under his leadership.
- I noticed that Ancelotti based his leadership on love… He always did everything with a lot of love.
- One of the important roles of a leader is that you always have many interests at play.
- You have to channel all those interests into the team’s best interest which is to win a championship for that season.
- I’ve had leaders who led based on fear.
- The risk with this type of fear is it has an expiration date, because when you stop being afraid of your leader, you start confronting him all the time, questioning his decisions and choices and it creates a hostile environment in the organization.
- Leadership that’s based on love, can make decisions that I might not agree with, but the leader is thinking about us as human beings. So in a sport where the product is a human being, how can I separate the performance from the person?
- It’s a lack of focus, lack of objectives, lack of clear communication, (when there is a lack of leadership).
- A leader must harness all the personal interests into a common goal and that’s what makes a winning team.
- Good leadership helps everybody understand what our common mission is.
- It doesn’t matter if you have an official leadership role or not. At a minimum, we all lead ourselves.
- In the end, you are the one who is going to have to live with the consequences of your decisions.
- But the most important thing is our identity.. my identity is in Christ. I’m a child of God, the child of one who really loves me, who takes care of me.
- I will have professional successes. I will have professional failures. I will make right choices. I will make wrong choices… Nobody can take away my identity as a child of God.
What an incredible event this has been! Next up is the GLS’s final speaker Pastor Albert Tate. Make sure you check back regularly for live blog updates.
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