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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 GLS favorite Juliet Font. Funt is the CEO and founder of Juliet Funt Group, a training and consulting firm helping organizations, their leaders and employees reclaim their creativity, productivity and engagement. With thought-provoking insights and actionable tools, she has become a globally-recognized expert in helping leaders cope with the “age of overload” in which we all live and work. Funt’s new book, A Minute to Think: Reclaim Creativity, Conquer Busyness, and Do Your Best Work, releases at the 2021 Summit. Make sure you purchase this!!!
The following are 21 Leadership Quotes from her session on changing work conditions:
- “When starting a fire, layers are best.”
- “It the space between the combustibles that fire can’t live without.”
- “We try to bring the spark every day but there’s no oxygen to feed the fire.”
- “The greatest conversation in work today is about ‘Where?’”
- “The most important topic about the next normal is about ‘The How’ because it is going us an opportunity to change how we feel at work.”
- “In what way we can we transform work so it is no longer the hardest part of people’s lives?”
- “You can pause to recuperate, reflect, reduce, or construct. All are better together.”
- “The Wedge is a small portion of open time inserted between two activities.”
- “The Wedge has bookends and is usually short.”
- “We must eradicate the shame of rest and replace it with the pride of self-care. We must take ownership of our exhaustion… We have to own this and give ourselves permission to change it.”
- “Are we as leaders modeling replenishing behaviors?”
- “Phil Knight of Nike had a chair in his living room used only for daydreaming.”
- “Leaders need to remove the distance preventing honesty.”
- “Ask you teams what part of the current ‘How’ is preventing our best work and how to change it?”
- “Legacy is a story written about you but you hold the pen?”
- “Low value work costs companies $1 million for every 50 employees in unproductive work.”
- “Boredom is a sign you are in the wrong place at the wrong moment.”
- “When we’re stuck on a problem we are going through the same options. We need to practice ‘Beneficial Forgetting’ and replace those options with new unique solutions.”
- “Set aside your GOOD thought to see if a GREAT one follows.”
- “When people think together, it’s hard to pull them off the pack.”
- “You can believe any story you want about the next ‘How.’”
It has been a great morning! The afternoon’s first speaker will be Bianca Juarez Olthoff. 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.