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For the next two days, I will be bringing in real time the top leadership quotes and lessons from the 2021 Global Leadership Summit (GLS). Therefore, make sure you bookmark this site and check back often. For those not familiar with the GLS, it is two days of rich, high-impact, inspiring sessions, and learnings from a diverse faculty who will share their wisdom and practical perspective to support you in your leadership growth.
As a way to add additional value to leaders, I want to provide you a complimentary copy of my latest ebook The Top 60 Leadership Quotes From 2021 Part 1. Because of the world we currently live in, the fundamentals of leadership are more important than ever. The quotes in this book deal with the basics of leadership. If you want to be the best leader you can possibly be, click HERE or on the image provided to download this FREE resource. The lessons learned from last year, if applied, will sustain you for years to come.
The afternoon’s first speaker was Ibukun Awosika. Awosika has vast combined entrepreneurial and high-level corporate and not-for-profit board experience across various sectors and geographies spanning over three decades. Globally recognized, she has received multiple awards, including the 2020 Forbes “Woman Africa Chairperson” award, and was also the first Nigerian recipient of the prestigious “International Women Entrepreneurial Challenge” award in 2008. Today, Awosika leads as founder and CEO of The Chair Centre Group, overseeing manufacturing, retail and bank-way security system services.
The following are 27 Leadership Quotes from her inspirational session along with some additional questions from Charles Duhigg:
Charles Duhigg
- “The only way you can do work safely is to do work well.”
- “Keystone Habits – Habits that change how we think about each other and change our culture.”
- “Keystone Habits work when leaders get behind them.”
- “For leaders, identifying Keystone Habits will set off a chain reaction which will make everything better.”
Ibukun Awosika
- “As we people we sometimes forget we have the power of choice.”
- “Only you ultimately make the choice of who you will become.”
- “Every day you will make the choice of who you want to become.”
- “Even when life throws us curve balls, do we give up or fight and fight through where we want to get to?”
- “I was never going to sleep with a man to get a job. I was never going to give a bribe to get a job.”
- “We all look in the mirror every day. Who do you see?”
- “The core of who you are should not be destroyed by becoming a wife and mother… It should be enhanced.”
- “When you’re done with your life, how do you want to finish… What do you want your legacy to be like?”
- “If you have a picture of how you want to finish, you can go back and do a Gap Analysis of where you are at and where you want to be.”
- “You can live more deliberately and intentionally than accidently.”
- “It’s amazing how many people have the title ‘leadership’ and there’s not a distinctive agenda driving their movement.”
- “Yesterday may be gone but it’s not too late because there’s a today and tomorrow.”
- “You can live the life you want to leave, not the life you’ve been given.”
- “The remote control is all yours. It’s in your hand and your control it.”
- “Your choice is driven by your values, goals and your ambition.”
- “If you don’t have an agenda set, you don’t know if Option A is better for you than Option B.”
- “There are many moments in life where we are at a crossroads.”
- “Common good always turns out to be personally good… When our communities work better, they work better for all of us.”
- “Visionary leadership requires you see beyond the immediate.”
- “Faith as a backbone for our value system.”
- “God is not a weekend god.”
- “Bottom line at all cost is bad for the world and bad for business.”
- “Our faith cannot be an excuse to do anything at any time.”
- “Politicians around the world are not different from country to country.”
- “Whenever our rights conflict with the greater good for our society, something is wrong.”
- “Too Much + Too Little = Just Enough”
- “Let’s build a better world so you can have a better life.”
What an amazing leader! The afternoon’s next speaker will be Jerry Lorenzo. Also, to further invest in your leadership click What Are Leaders Currently Reading? The Top 10 Most Read Leadership Posts Of July ’21.
The Top 60 Leadership Quotes From 2021 Part 1 is my latest ebook. For many entering a post-pandemic environment, leadership looks completely different than the pre-pandemic world. People are more broken now. They are more uncertain. Fear and anxiousness are unwelcome constant companions. Cultures are more unhealthy. Relationships are more dysfunctional. Hope seems to be in short supply. Every day seems to bring a new hacking, natural disaster, or unexpected calamity.
Therefore, the fundamentals of leadership are more important than ever. The quotes in this book deal with the basics of leadership. If you want to be the best leader you can possibly be, click HERE or on the image provided to download this FREE resource. The lessons learned from last year, if applied, will sustain you for years to come.