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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 first day’s final speaker was GLS favorite Dr. Henry Cloud. Dr. Cloud is an acclaimed leadership expert, clinical psychologist and New York Times best-selling author. His 45 books have sold nearly 15 million copies worldwide. He has an extensive executive coaching background and experience as a leadership consultant, devoting the majority of his time working with CEOs, leadership teams and executives to improve performance, leadership skills and culture. Success magazine named Dr. Cloud in the top 25 most influential leaders in personal growth and development, alongside Oprah, Brene Brown, Seth Godin and others.
The following are 28 Leadership Quotes from his sobering session on mental health as well as some comments from Liz Wiseman:
Liz Wiseman – CEO of Wiseman Group
- “When we follow our passion, it can take our team off-course.”
- “The real work is messy.”
- “Find out what is important to your boss and make that important to you.”
- “Are you doing the job and doing it well or are you doing the job that needs to be done.”
- “If you want your work to make a difference, look at the job that needs to be done and serve where needed.”
Dr. Henry Cloud
- “This mental health crisis is touching leaders.”
- “Usually 15-17% of people meet the diagnostic of having a mental health issue. After COVID, it’s over 40%.”
- “The first step is becoming aware.”
- “You can be a high-performer and have a next growth step we need to walk in to.”
- “Depression, anxiety, and habit patterns needs a framework.”
- “Science and the faith agree in the issues of the mental health problem.”
- “Connection vs. Emotional Isolation.”
- “We have a chip inside of us looking for connection.”
- “If you’re connected, you get depressed. There is anxiety and stress. Impulse disorders and sexual addition. We’re suspicious. It’s all underlining that we’re in a disconnected place.”
- “God is the only self-sustaining person. The rest of us need life breathed into us.”
- “Leadership can pull you out of connection and into isolation.”
- “Freedom vs. Loss of Self-Control.”
- “73% of us power through life’s challenges.”
- “Sometimes leaders don’t set limits on others’ poor performance.”
- “Systems are depression, anxiety, enabling, powerlessness, blaming, and addictions.”
- “Start setting boundaries you’re not setting.”
- “Set limits on bad behavior and poor performance.”
- “Many organizations are one fire away from success.”
- “Acceptance vs. Denial of your imperfections.”
- “The gap between imperfection and perfection is filled with guilt and shame.”
- “We have 1 fatality to every 120 million passenger departures in the airline industry.”
- “When we are safe to be curious about our mistakes and not get beat up by them, we do get better and improve.”
- “We’ve got to embrace our vulnerability. We need to get curious and learn from failures rather than judging yourself.”
- “Adulthood vs. Remaining a Child”
- “Inferiority, People Pleasing, Anxiety, Rigid Thinking, Addition, Comparison – signs of lack of adulthood.”
- “Start to own your own opinions.”
- “Try things and fail. Adults increase their expertise over time.”
- “The Gospel is the good news of getting people healed in these areas of pain.”
What an amazing first day it has been! Check back tomorrow for Day 2 of the Global Leadership Summit!!! 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.