Free Download
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 the incomparable Malcolm Gladwell. Recognized as one of the 100 most influential people by TIME magazine and one of the Foreign Policy’s top global thinkers, Gladwell is a world-renowned, five-time best-selling author and sought-after thought leader delivering expertise and practical application on management, innovation, history and leadership. I featured his latest book The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War in the post 23 Leadership Quotes From Malcolm Gladwell’s The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, A Temptation, and The Longest Night of the Second World War and 10 Books Every Leader Should Read In Summer 2021.
The following are 9 Leadership Quotes from his brilliant session on taking social risk with introductory comments from author Fredrik Haren:
Fredrik Haren
-
- “Every individual has a unique creative process.”
- “There is no one creative process.”
- “I would go to 20-35 countries per year… I need my mind to be unguarded.”
- “My best ideas come while I’m in solitude.”
- “What are best ideas you’ve ever gotten and where were you when you got them?”
- 32% of people do creative work outside.
Malcolm Gladwell
- “To do something truly innovation, you have to take an operational risk and a social risk.”
- “The ability to take social risk is an important as a breakthrough idea.”
- “The heart of social risk is urgency.”
- “The difference between Steve Jobs and the team at Xerox was Jobs had a sense of urgency.”
- “A sense of urgency is a hard thing to do… You have to admit your ideas are wrong and someone else’s are better.”
- “We need people to try things other people think are crazy.”
- “We’re programmed for approval.”
- “We get more of this is more people support this form of social risk-taking.”
- “Your obligation as a leader is to make your organization safe for risk-taking.”
Just a powerful message! The event’s final speaker will be Albert Tate. 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.