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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 morning’s final speaker was Shola Richards. Shola is a best-selling author and sought-after workplace civility expert whose work has been featured on the Today Show, CBS, Forbes, Black Enterprise and numerous additional publications around the world. Richards is a best-selling author whose research is featured in his book Go Together: How the Concept of Ubuntu Will Change How You Live, Work, and Lead.
The following are 28 Leadership Quotes from his convicting session:
- “We are defined by how we treat each other.”
- “There are two types of people in the world. Those who make you feel good when they walk into the room and those who make you feel good when they walk out of the room.”
- “Civility is a demonstration of respect.”
- “Do the people who follow you choose to or because they have to.”
- “25% of people take their frustrations out on customers.”
- “What we allow is what will continue.”
- “In every encounter you either give life or drain it. There is no neutral exchange.”
- “Many leaders are not mindful of how their words and actions affect others.”
- “To lead others with civility, you must connect with your hire self. Remember the person you were in your interview.”
- “If you would never think of saying it in a job interview, don’t do it at work.”
- “Kindness is showing you care about someone through your actions. This is what we need from our leaders. This is not just being nice.”
- “Value their ideas. Respect the wisdom of those closest to the work. Ask them how we can serve our people better?”
- “Value their roles. Appreciate the importance of everyone’s unique contribution.”
- “Value their time. Consistently honor their most precious resource. Time cannot be borrowed. It can only be spent. Start and stop your one-on-one meetings on time.”
- “Can you put your phone away and focus on this person and give them this demonstration of respect.”
- “Value their skills. Demonstrate that you trust them and their ability to get the job done. This is the highest honor of respect.”
- “Value their humanity. Connect personally, recognize their effort, and show grace. This is a hard period of time.”
- “Whenever you see bad behavior, it is an unskilled expression of an unmet need.”
- “Shola, I need you to be the buffalo and not the cow.”
- “The difference between where you are and where you could be is the amount of pain you are willing to endure.”
- “Be aware of the words that weaken us. Leadership is hard enough without self-sabotage.”
- “You can’t give to others what you don’t have.”
- “I belong in any room I walk in.” – Shola’s Self-Civility Statement
- “You are born looking like your daddy. You die looking like your decisions.”
- “Some people in your life need to be loved from a distance.”
- “Commitment is doing what you said you were going to do long after the mood you said it in, has left.”
- “If your leaders did not have authority over you, would you follow them anyway? Quite frankly, this is your legacy.”
- “We will forget what people said but you’ll never forget how they made you feel.”
What an amazing morning! The afternoon’s first speaker will be Ibukun Awosika. 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.