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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 next speaker was Rich Wilkerson, Jr. Rich is a dynamic communicator and author with a passion to encourage and inspire young adults. In 2010, Rich’s ministry grew to form both the VOUS Leadership Conference and later in 2015, VOUS Church where he serves as a lead pastor. Wilkerson Jr. is also the author of two books, Sandcastle Kings: Meeting Jesus in a Spiritually Bankrupt World and Friend of Sinners: Why Jesus Cares More About Relationship Than Perfection.
The following are 30 Leadership Quotes from his session on the grind of leadership along with additional quotes from Jason Jaggard:
Jason Jaggard, Founder and CEO of Novus Global
- “We never accomplish goals we believe are not possible.”
- “It’s inefficient to waste brain power on things that are impossible… The problem is there are things possible we can’t even see because our intuition is too small.”
- “The world is longing for people who can see the impossible.”
Rich Wilkerson, Jr.
- “Outlook will often determine the outcome.”
- “Great outcomes don’t happen overnight. They happen over time.”
- “Grind is laborious or routine work. Leadership is a grind. It’s work. It’s serving. It’s showing up again and again and again. It’s all in the grind.”
- “90% of what you do in leadership is going to go uncelebrated.”
- “Anything great comes from a grind.”
- “It’s not the one-time moment that takes out a leader. It’s the monotony.”
- “Rename the Grind.”
- “After 8 years of infertility, we encountered a God who still makes the impossible possible.”
- “Names bring about an identity.”
- “Identity brings about purpose.”
- “Everything you are facing this season is part of the plan of what you are going to face next season.”
- “God won’t multiply what you fail to maximize. Every season you are in is important and has purpose.”
- “Everything big used to be small.”
- “Get good at look at something that appears to be small and declare ‘This is big!’”
- “Reframe the Grind”
- “We don’t see things the way they are. We see things the way we are.”
- “So often in life we have a poisoned perspective. A poisoned perspective prevents progress.”
- “The healthy mindset a leader can take on is a mindset of gratitude.”
- “We live in a comparison culture.”
- “Instagram forces us to look at other people’s lives more than living our own.”
- “Instagram is a lie… I’m not posting my bad days.”
- “The grass is not green on the other side. The grass is green where you choose to water it.”
- “The Silver Medal Syndrome – Bronze medal winners are happier in life than silver medal winners.”
- “Stop saying it could have been better. It could have been worse.”
- “Remain in the Grind.”
- “What good is it to gain ground when you don’t know how to stand your ground.”
- “Not every season in life is about conquering. Some are about enduring.”
- “It’s not about what happens to you in life. It’s about how you respond to what happens to you in life.”
- “Even when you face rejection, even when you face failure, you stay in the grind. I’m called to be a leader. I’m called to make difference. You develop resiliency.”
- “It’s always too soon to quit. You are needed. You are valuable. The best is yet to come.”
What an incredible session! The afternoon’s final speaker will be Dr. Henry Cloud. The afternoon’s next speaker will be Rich Wilkerson, Jr. 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.