Global Leadership Summit Live Blog – 39 Leadership Quotes From Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic on The Six Qualities Needed To Lead In Crisis

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 next speaker was Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic.  Dr. Chamorro-Premuzic is an international authority in psychological profiling, talent management, leadership development and people analytics. His work focuses on the creation of science-based tools that improve organizations’ ability to predict performance and people’s ability to understand themselves. He is currently Professor of Business Psychology at University College London and Columbia University as well as the Chief Talent Scientist at Manpower Group, and co-founder of Deeper Signals and META Profiling.

The following are 39 Leadership Quotes From Chamorro-Premuzic’s session on leading in context:

1. The success of a leader is largely dependent on the context they are in.
2. There are some leaders who are successful in any situation.
3. There are some leaders who are bad in every situation.
4. An aggressive or violent makes war to himself.

Six Qualities Needed To Lead Through A Crisis

1. Intelligence – the ability to learn quickly, to reason abstractly and to make rational, data driven decisions.
2. This is more important than ever when you cannot rely on your previous experience.
3. You don’t have to be the smartest person in the room.
4. You do need to have the intelligence to hire intelligent people.
5. If you hire people smarter than you and bigger than you, you will be a company of giants.
6. When you realize people are smarter than you, you are smarter.
7. Curiosity – The ability to have high levels of learnability, experiencing a sense of discomfort when you know that you don’t know something.
8. Curiosity is having a hungry mind.
9. You may be smart but if you are not curious, you get stuck in your ways.
10. Having the appetite to ask “Why”.
11. You need to go outside your own filter bubble.
12. Humans love to live in a world that is certain but that makes us less curious.
13. Hiring on diversity and culture fit are not compatible.
14. Humility – Being aware of your limitations and not underestimating others and overestimating yourself.
15. If you don’t have humility, you don’t have curiosity and then you don’t have expertise.
16. Your ability to manage a crisis is largely dependent on your humility… You have to know your limitations. Being aware of your limitations is a sign of your leadership.
17. One of the ways to cultivate humility is to be self-critical and harness critical feedback.
18. Resilience – The ability to cultivate emotional stability; the muscle of mental toughness.
19. All of your emotions are amplified in a crisis. All of your direct reports are looking to you to see how to behave.
20. The muscle of resilience needs crisis.
21. It’s easy to learn from failure. Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted to get.
22. Empathy – The ability to understand and care about what other people are thinking and feeling.
23. Humans are more influenced by emotions more than facts.
24. No one wants to follow a robot.
25. Pay attention to what other people think. Respect their point of view.
26. People need a lot of validation and reinforcement during a crisis.
27. On Zoom, check in on people as often as possible.
28. Integrity – The ability to control your short-term temptations, your impulses, and make decisions for the benefit of others, other than yourself.
29. If you don’t have integrity, all other qualities will not matter.
30. Leadership is fundamentally a resource for the group.
31. It’s a privilege to be in charge but as a leader you have a responsibility to misuse that power. Must be used for the good of the group.
32. In the end you will be remembered whether you were an honest leader or not.
33. The majority of leaders we have don’t have these six qualities.
34. Ask how you could have better prepared your team for this crisis?
35. Ask how are you going to improve these six qualities?

What an incredible morning it has been!  Get ready!!!  Next up is Lysa TerKeurst.  Make sure you check back regularly for live blog updates.

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