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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 next speaker was A.R. Bernard. Bernard is an influential religious leader and transformative visionary, leading one of the largest congregations in the United States at the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn, NY with more than 40,000 members. Before following his calling into ministry, Bernard enjoyed a successful career in finance which has positioned him in a place of influence among top leaders in business, entertainment and politics. His transformative messages are also shared in his books, Happiness Is…Simple Steps to a Life of Joy and Four Things Women Want from a Man.
The following are 32 Leadership Quotes from his brilliant session on building bridges:
- “You cannot solve a problem at the same level it was created.” – Albert Einstein
- “The nature of problem-solving moves you to another level.”
- “I love progress.”
- “We are social beings. We are to work together. Nothing can be accomplished alone. We need each other. Building bridges is about finding common ground.”
- “Agreement is a place of power. Disagreement is a place of powerlessness.”
- “Common ground creates a pathway for conversation.”
- “Atttitude determines approach. Approach determines success or failure. You must have an attitude of humility.”
- “When you enter a room, assume there are people in there smarter than you.”
- “We are in a society that is empathy deficient.”
- “Empathy is facilitated by conscious.”
- “Collaboration expands your knowledge base. It holds you accountable.”
- “Culture is the totality of personality and character of a society.”
- “Every relationship is based on trust. You build trust by consistency.”
- “I see my responsibility as salt and light as I speak to those in power in our community.”
- “Relationships is the network for life.”
- “To rebuild trust you begin by giving hope… You find a place where you can agree and that’s where you begin to build.”
- “The proliferation of extremes expands the middle. There are more people in the middle now willing to have a conversation.”
- “The voice of the people is not the mind of the people. The voice of the people has been hijacked by special interests.”
- “People walked away from Jesus when they didn’t agree with His message but He loved them.”
- “You don’t need to convince everybody. You just need to convince enough people to initiate change.”
- “Society requires two things – civil boards and a morale value consensus and that’s where religion comes in.”
- “I can talk to other religions because I am confident in who I am.”
- “My conversion did not come by an institution but a person, Jesus Christ. I was fascinated by that person.”
- “God, truth, and reality are synonymous.”
- “’I am my word are one.’ That verse took me away from the iconography of Jesus and I met Him in His word.”
- “We live in a tension whether we engage it or not.”
- “Those of us who participate in the Kingdom of Christ and thrust into a tension.”
- “Separation and Assimilation.”
- “How much do I adjust to the culture without losing my Christian beliefs?”
- “There is a relationship between us and where we live.”
- “The most difficult bridge has been to change the image of Christianity by those who have been hurt by it or grew up seeing it as the enemy.”
- “Managing Continuity and Change is the greatest challenge of a level. Change is a constant. It is about maturity… It is necessary… Truth is the only agent that affects true change. Truth is confrontational because it confronts our beliefs… the Bible is a book about patterns, precepts, structures, systems… Managing continuity and change is the challenge. Knowing what to change and what to continue is the challenge. If you change what you should continue, you lose your identity. If you continue what you should change, you become irrelevant… You have to be willing to change and pronounce judgement on the past.”
What an incredible session! The morning’s final speaker will be Juliet Funt. 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.