Month: August 2021

GLS22 Registration Now Open With Limited-Time Offer

Posted on August 5, 2021 by - News & Updates, The Global Leadership Summit

GLS22 is here

On August 4-5, 2022, The Global Leadership Summit will be broadcast LIVE in HD from the main campus outside of Chicago, to both an online audience and in-person gatherings at 500+ premier host sites across the U.S. and Canada.

When you get your tickets to attend by August 23, you also get one FREE ticket to The Global Leadership Summit: Special Edition half-day event taking place on February 24, 2022.

 

Limited-Time Offer Through August 23, 2021 

GLS22 Incentive Tickets

Lowest GLS22 Rates
Get your tickets for The Global Leadership Summit taking place on August 4-5, 2022, at the lowest rate of $139! (Regular rate: $229)

+ FREE Gift
Just for getting your ticket before August 23, we’ll give you a FREE ticket to attend The Global Leadership Summit: Special Edition half-day event taking place on February 24, 2022 (Regular rate: $79)

That’s two events for only $139—Yes, that’s $169 in savings!
(Regular rates for both events would normally be $308.) 

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What to Expect 

Both GLS22 and the GLS: Special Edition include a world-class leadership faculty who will deliver their wisdom and perspective to help you thrive personally and professionally.

  • February 24, 2022—The Global Leadership Summit: Special Edition
    We’re excited to announce the return of senior pastor of Life.Church, Craig Groeschel, who will be joined by entrepreneur and Financial Times columnist, Margaret Heffernan and #1 New York Times best-selling author, Daniel Pink, among others!
  • August 4-5, 2022—The Global Leadership Summit
    Stay tuned for an exciting announcement about our featured faculty for the premier leadership event of 2022!

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GLS21 Notes: Reclaim the Grind & Take Ground

Posted on August 5, 2021 by - Articles, Leadership Development, Leading Yourself, Resilience, The Global Leadership Summit

Rich Wilkerson Jr will be speaking at Global Leadership Summit 2021.

If leadership were easy, everyone would do it. Anyone can start something, but it takes a leader to finish it. Anyone can celebrate a win, but it takes a leader to endure a loss. Anyone can get excited about the future, but it takes a leader to stay committed to the daily grind.

At The Global Leadership Summit, Rich Wilkerson Jr. helped us to learn to rename, reframe and remain so we can reclaim the grind and take ground in our leadership.

Enjoy these official session notes to help you dive deeper into what you learned! 

Rich Wilkerson Jr

  The Reality of the Grind
    • Outlook will determine the outcome.
    • Great outcomes don’t happen overnight, they happen over time.
    • From here to there is a big space and it’s filled with one word: the grind. The grind is laborious work.
    • So much of what you do is unheard, unseen and un-thanked.
    • Jesus healed 10 men of leprosy but only one came back to say, “thank you.”
    • 90% of what you do in leadership will go un-thanked.
    • A great marriage, family and career are a grind. In order to see a dream come to pass, you’ll have to grind through it.
    • So many leaders are not lost in some epic battle, it’s the monotony.
    • How I steward the mundane moments will create the great moments.
Rename the Grind
    • Names bring about an identity.
    • Identity brings about purpose.
    • Everything you are facing in this season is preparing you for the next season. Rename it; call it preparation.
    • Maybe it’s boring; call it research & development.
    • Maybe you’re stressed out, rename it to stretch.
    • God won’t multiply what you fail to maximize. Every season you’re in has a purpose.
    • Everybody’s goal is the same: BIG. We think bigger is better. We must remember that everything big used to be small. Big is a state of mind.
    • I’m letting my purpose dictate my feelings.
Reframe the Grind
    • If you don’t see what you’re doing differently, you’ll get tired.
    • We don’t see things as they are; we see things as we are. We have a poisoned perspective which prevents progress.
    • The healthiest mindset a leader can take on is a mindset of gratitude. Things you appreciate tend to get better. Things you don’t, tend to get worse.
    • We live in a comparison culture. We’re comparing our story to someone else’s story. It stops us and robs us of gratitude.
    • Instagram is a lie. We’re not posting our bad days.
    • Perfectionism robs us. We don’t just want to be good; we want to be the best. It robs us of seeing the beauty of where we are right now.
    • The Silver Medal Syndrome – Bronze medal winners are happier in life than silver medal winners. Silver medal winners are so consumed with the gold. The bronze medal winner is so aware that it could have been worse.
Remain in the Grind
    • What you’re doing is so meaningful–it matters.
    • This is a season about posture. After everything you’ve done to stand, stand firm.
    • Make up your mind before Monday, I’m going to remain in the grind.
    • My dad would throw us into situations where he knew we would fail. It’s not about what would happen to you in life, but how you responded to what happened to you.
    • He would take us door-to-door. Somewhere between the 3rd and 4th house, things change.
    • Even when you face failure, rejection, you decide, I’m going to remain in the grind.
Resilience
    • When you choose to rename, reframe, remain, we develop resilience.
    • The righteous man falls seven times, but he gets back up.

 

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GLS21 Notes: Only You Can Choose

Posted on August 5, 2021 by - Articles, Calling, Change Management, Character, Complex Thinking, Culture, Decision-Making, Leading Organizations, Leading Yourself, The Global Leadership Summit, Vision

Ibukun Awosika will be speaking at Global Leadership Summit 2021.

Everywhere we work—our businesses, our churches, our nonprofits—give each one of us choices every day. They put before us difficult situations in which we must decide how to move forward.

In her talk at The Global Leadership Summit, Ibukun Awosika shared her own experiences as a leader in a very challenging ethical environment to explore how understanding who you are, your purpose and value system is the only way to walk steady in the shifting sand of culture. Her talk gave us insights on how we might gain this kind of integrity and strength as we lead through an uncertain future to create a world where everyone can thrive. Only you can choose who you want to be.

Enjoy these official session notes to help you dive deeper into what you learned! 

Ibukun Awosika

 

 Only You Can Choose
    • As a people, we have the power of choice. We get to choose who we are, what we become and what we do.
    • Only you, ultimately, make the choice. Every choice you make every day has consequences.
    • Only You Can Choose: How far you want to go in life > How you want to accomplish your life goals > How you want to impact society > What value system will guide your journey.
    • I made two choices: (1) I would never sleep with a man to get a job; (2) I would never pay a bribe to get a job.
    • To thyself be true!
    • We look at the mirror every day. What do you see? What is covering up your real view of you? What are the inner thoughts, ambitions, that you have that you cannot express because you are trying to conform to other’s views?
    • At the center of each of us is a core. The core of who you are should not be destroyed or replaced by being a wife or mother. For men, it is the same.
    • What is key to understanding how to able to make the right choices for ourselves?
Reflective Exercise
    • Where are you right now? (In the context of your ambition for your life)
    • Who do you think you are?
    • Where do you think you are going? You can’t get to somewhere if you don’t know where you are going. Are you on a journey that will take you to where you really want to go?
    • Bonus Question: How do you picture your life at 70? 80? 90? What do you want your legacy to be? How do you want your life to end? If you have a picture of how you want to finish, you can go back and do an analysis about where you are and where you want to be. It’s about living more deliberately and intentionally, rather than accidentally.
    • There are follower-leaders. Leaders without vision, just following along. What is your vision?
    • Yesterday may be gone, but it’s not too late as long as there is a today or tomorrow.
Making the Right Choice
    • Your choice is driven by your values, goals and your ambitions.
    • If you don’t have an agenda set, you don’t know why which choice is best for you.
    • There are many moments in time when you find yourself at a crossroads. How do you make decisions at that time?
    • Do you consider common good or just personal good?
    • Common good always turns out to be personal good. When communities work good, they work for everyone.
    • How do you take the right decisions? What guides those decisions? What is the backbone of the value system?
    • Faith as a backbone for our value system
Gandhi’s Seven Social Sins
    • The list: wealth without work; pleasure without conscience; knowledge without character; commerce without morality; science without humanity; religion without sacrifice; politics without principle.
    • Be a man of character, civility, diligence. Let your handshake be good.
    • Bottom line is good for all businesses. But bottom line at any cost is not good for anyone.
    • Love your neighbor as yourself. We must be able to behave in a way that we can actually reach our neighbor.
    • We play corporate politics. It’s a short-term game. It always falls apart.
    • 8th added by Ghandi’s Grandson: Rights without responsibility
    • When we build a better world, it will come into our home, better corporate organizations, communities.
    • Too much plus too little equals enough.

 

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GLS21 Notes: Require Civility to Lead

Posted on August 5, 2021 by - Articles, Character, Conflict Management, Culture, Emotional Intelligence, Influence, Leading Others, Leading Yourself, Servant Leadership

Shola Richards will be speaking at GLS21

Around the world, there is a growing sense that civility has been traded for a much lesser discourse. As leaders, more than ever it is our role to lead back to civility.

In his talk at The Global Leadership Summit, Shola Richards explored practical ways to lead yourself and others in this endeavor including eliminating what weakens us, the distinction between kind and nice, and being leaders that leave a wake of civility in our path.

Enjoy these official session notes to help you dive deeper into what you learned!

Shola Richards

The Need for Civility
    • We are defined by how we treat each other.
    • There are two types of people in this world: those who make you feel good when they walk into the room and those that make you feel good when they walk out of the room. The difference is civility.
    • People follow you because they choose to or because they have to.
    • Incivility are the behaviors that make you lose faith in humanity.
    • Georgetown study – 25% take out frustrations on customers, 48% intentionally decreased their work effort, 78% commitment to organization declined
    • What we allow is what will continue.
    • I worked in a work environment that could only be called soul-destroying. I said I was done. I made the decision to take my own life. I didn’t just think about suicide; I attempted it. I’m a suicide survivor.
    • We are defined by how we treat each other.
How to Lead Others with Civility
    • Brennan Manning – “In every encounter, you either give life or drain it. There is no neutral exchange.”
    • There are a lot of leaders that are unaware of how their words and actions impact others.
    • You need to connect to your hire self when you come to work. You remember the person you said you were when you interviewed, that’s the person.
    • Kindness is what we need from our leaders. Holding people accountable, standing up to bigotry and racism. Giving loving to someone who is suicidal.
    • I am a kindness-extremist. People call me “Brother Theresa.”
Five Values for Leading Others
    1. Value their Ideas (Work) – respect the wisdom of the people closest to the work. What tools can I give you to make sure you serve them better?
    2. Value Their Roles – appreciate the importance of everyone’s unique contribution. We all play a role. Is the shortstop more important than the left fielder?
    3. Value Their Time – Consistently honor their most precious resource. Start and end your one-on-one meetings on time. Put your phone away and just focus on the person.
    4. Value Their Skills – Demonstrate that you trust them and their ability to get the job done. The highest respect you can give someone is to trust them. You can love someone and not trust them.
    5. Value Their Humanity – connect personally, recognize their effort and show them grace. All bad behavior is an unskilled expression of an unmet need.
    • We are defined by how we treat each other.
How to Lead Self with Civility
    • My dad gave me a lesson on leading self. He pulled me aside, “I need you to be the buffalo, not the cow. When a storm comes, the cow turns away from the storm and prolongs the suffering. But the buffalo turns to the storm and goes into the storm. His time in the storm is shorter and because he has done what is hard, he is made better. Lead yourself through the storm.”
    • “The difference between where you are and where you could be is the amount of pain you are willing to endure.” – Craig Groeschel
    • Leadership is really hard. Be aware of the words that weaken us. Don’t self-sabotage. “I’m not good enough.” “I don’t matter.” “I am unlovable.”
    • You need a self-civility statement. Here’s mine: “I belong in any room that I walk into.”
    • Leading self with civility through actions. Maintaining healthy boundaries. Removing yourself from toxic relationship. Asking for help. Forgiving others. Reach out to a therapist.
    • You’re born looking like your daddy. You die looking like your decisions.
    • Some people in your life need to be loved from a distance.
    • We are defined by how we treat others, and it starts with how we treat ourselves.
    • Commitment is doing what you said you were going to do long after the mood you said it in has left you.
How to Leave a Legacy of Civility
    • If your leaders did not have their authority over you, would you choose to follow them anyway?
    • Your legacy is not about titles and degrees. Your legacy is defined by how you treat others. That is civility.
    • When someone passes away, you don’t sit around and talk about cars, degrees. What you’re doing instead is remembering how they treated you.
    • “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou
    • Lead with civility. The world needs it more than ever. Your decision to do so will be your legacy.

 

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GLS21 Notes: Believe It

Posted on August 5, 2021 by - Articles, Confidence, Leading Organizations, Leading Yourself, Resilience, The Global Leadership Summit, Vision, Women Leaders, Women Leaders - Leading Yourself

Jamie Kern Lima will be speaking at Global Leadership Summit 2021.

Jamie Kern Lima started IT Cosmetics from her living room and grew the company into the largest luxury makeup brand in the U.S. When she later sold the company to L’Oréal in a billion-dollar deal, Jamie became the first female CEO of a brand in L’Oréal’s 100+ year history. Her love for her customers matched with her remarkable authenticity and belief has led her to be recognized as one of Goldman Sachs’ 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs and Forbes Americas Richest Self-Made Women. She has also received the 2019 Columbia University Medal of Excellence as well as the EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women award, among several others.

In her talk at The Global Leadership Summit, Jamie Kern Lima gave us insight and encouragement on how to go from underestimated to unstoppable.

Enjoy these official session notes to help you dive deeper into what you learned! 

Jamie Kern Lima

Her Story through Rejection
    • My real journey is learning to overcome self-doubt, constant rejection, how to build lessons around resiliency.
    • I’m here today to tell you that you are not alone. Every single one of us deals with self-doubt. When we change our relationship with self-doubt, it can change our life.
    • In 2007, I was anchoring the news in Portland, OR. I had developed a skin condition called rosacea. This started a season of self-doubt.
    • The things that we think are our biggest setbacks are God’s biggest set-ups.
    • In 2007, on our honeymoon flight to South Africa, we wrote a business plan for a cosmetic company.
    • Knowing when to let go of a dream is as important as knowing when to go in.
    • What if I could shift the definition of beauty for every little girl who is starting to doubt herself and every woman who still does?
    • We created a product that worked but had no money to hire anyone.
    • It was rejection, rejection, rejection. It was over 300 Nos. It was years. I kept feeling like I was supposed to keep going. We went straight to consumer. All day, no orders. Days, weeks and no orders. Sephora said no. How we handle those moments changes our lives.
    • I got a call from QVC and Alan Burke. He said it was a unanimous no and that we were not a fit for QVC or their customers.
    • The biggest thing I did was get still and pray.
Turn Down the Volume of the Nos
    • How do I turn down the volume of rejection and how do I turn up the volume of the knowing?
    • I got a call from a huge private equity company. We sat down to meeting after meeting. They said no. I asked for a why. He said, “I just don’t think that women will buy makeup from someone that looks like you with your body and your weight.”
    • Every single one of us has had someone tell us that we are not enough. Sometimes it is ourselves talking to ourselves.
    • We need to look fear straight in the eye. We need to remember that our mission and calling is bigger than the fear. It’s the most moments that with God, grace and grit that you get up and keep going.
    • He gave me a no, but He (God) gave me a knowing. Which one do we listen to, the no or the knowing?
    • At the end of the day, we each have a knowing if we get still and listen.
    • Learn to turn down the volume on all those Nos and listen to the knowing. He (God) has a different answer.
    • I was in a beauty expo in New York. QVC was there. We got a yes from them. We were going to get one shot for 10 minutes. We had to sell 6,000 units or we wouldn’t get another shot. 22 banks said no the loans. One said yes.
    • Sometimes when you are so committed to your vision, you still struggle. Sometimes the right thing is not the easy thing.
    • At the end of the 10 minutes, a sold-out sign goes across the screen. That one airing eventually grew to 250 shows. We are now the biggest cosmetic brand in QVC. We got yes from Ulta and Sephora. We are the largest luxury makeup company in the country.
How Big Your Dream Can Be
    • No one can tell you how big your dream can be.
    • Remember Alan Burke? He became one of the greatest mentors in my life. After he retired from QVC, we hired him on our Advisory Board. The guy who rejected me was now working for me.
    • In 2016, L’ Oreal made an offer to buy the company. They ended up buying for $1.2 billion cash.
    • How do you go from underestimated to unstoppable?
    • When you are someone with dreams on your heart and your brave to step into a position of leadership, we shouldn’t be surprised when other people don’t get it.
    • No one can tell you how big your dream can be.

 

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GLS21 Notes: Leadership and Mental Health

Posted on August 5, 2021 by - Articles, Confidence, Emotional Intelligence, Leading Yourself, Relational Intelligence, Replenishment, Resilience, Wellness

Dr. Henry Cloud will be speaking at Global Leadership Summit 2021.

Statistics confirm that families are struggling, and depression is on the rise. Too often leaders are required to help others but struggle to take care of themselves in the process.

In his talk at The Global Leadership Summit, Dr. Henry Cloud helped us contextualize and face the struggles all leaders are experiencing when it comes to mental health and gave us ways to get equipped to face these challenges. Whether you power through, run away or address your pain in a different way—Dr. Cloud helps leaders understand what is affecting them, how they can create a path to emerge stronger and pass that resilience on to others.

During this session, Dr. Cloud was joined by his guest, Marten Hoekstra, CEO of Wealth Management Americas, with oversight for approximately $700 billion in client assets and 18,000 employees. Marten shared how Dr. Cloud’s insights shaped his personal journey and helped bring his leadership to the next level.

Enjoy these official session notes to help you dive deeper into what you learned! 

Mental Health Crisis - Dr Henry Cloud

 

The Current Mental Health Crisis
    • What can I do to help people in my community or organization who are struggling with a mental health issue? How can I help leaders?
    • Normally, the number of individuals struggling with a mental health problem is in the high teens (15-17%). Now, after COVID, over 40% Americans would be diagnosable with mental health or addiction.
    • The diagnostic categories: mood problems or depression; anxiety; stressors or trauma; sleep struggles; addiction or substance issues
Becoming Aware
    • The first step is becoming aware of these issues in ourselves and others.
    • You can be a high performer and still have a next growth step that you need to be aware of to move into it.
    • As spiritual leaders, there are people hurting in your community and your faith is needed. Ultimately, what faith is about is to seek and to heal what is broken.

4 Categories to Address Mental Health

1. Connection vs. Emotional Isolation
    • I’ve never met a leader that is physically isolated. They’re surrounded by people all the time.
    • There is a quality to those relationships where you are on output; they are depending on you.
    • You can be isolated from a part of your heart.
    • Example: story of famous heart surgeon who was dealing with the fallout of an affair. He developed a plan for how he was going to grow and be better, but it was all about output. “Everything you are doing is output. There’s nothing coming in. When did you learn to not depend on anything from the outside coming in to help you?”
    • A baby comes into the world searching for connection. From the womb to the tomb—that never goes away.
    • Some of the symptoms of disconnection: depression/mood; anxiety/fear; acting out/impulse problems; addictions; distorted thinking (negative/worrisome)
What do we do about it?
    • Realize the need. God is the only self-sustaining person. He’s the Creator, the rest of us are creatures.
    • Be vulnerable. Find a safe place with safe people. You need someone who is not a stakeholder.
    • Move others toward a safe place.
2. Freedom vs. Loss of Control
    • Once we’re in relationships, it’s easy to lose our sense of freedom.
    • The other aspect is limit-setting, where you say “no” to people who are hurting you.
    • Boundaries will affect you in your leadership and in your personal life.
    • Symptoms of lack of boundaries or limits: depression; anxiety; co-dependency/enabling; powerlessness/blaming; addictions
    • One of the first treatments is getting people to take control of what they can control and let go of things they can’t control.
What does it look like to get boundaries?
    • Develop the “no” muscle.
    • Take extreme ownership and responsibility.
    • Set limits on bad behavior, control and manipulation. Sometimes it requires a necessary ending. You are a steward of the mission.
    • Respect others’ freedom.
3. Acceptance vs. Denial of the Imperfection
    • In the Garden of Eden, it was perfect. In the imperfect, we can see glimpses or portions of what the ideal looks like. The reality is there is a gap between the ideal and how I really am.
    • How we deal with the gap is the difference between thriving and not thriving.
    • What lives in the gap? Pain, shame and guilt.
    • In the airline industry in 1996, there was 1 crash for every 2 million flights. 350 people died in that year. In the past 12 years, we have had 8 billion passengers fly without one fatal crash. Now it’s 1 fatality for every 120 million departures.
    • When we are safe to get curious and learn from our mistakes, we do get better.
    • Symptoms of lack of acceptance: perfectionism/critical attitude; depression/anxiety; unresolved grief and pain; lack of emotional regulations; addictions
What does it look like to get to acceptance?
    • Embrace vulnerability. Confess your faults to one another.
    • Process your pain and grief.
    • Develop a growth mindset.
    • Monitor the tone with which you address imperfection in yourself and others.
    • Forgive, forgive, forgive.
    • People of faith: what is the good news of the Gospel? You have been accepted and forgiven for all the bad stuff.
    • You need a place to go do that. Take the sting out of the gap.
4. Adulthood vs Remaining a Child
    • We must become an equal adult psychologically. If we don’t, we begin to people please and this keeps you from performing at your best.
    • Symptoms of lack of adulthood: feelings of inferiority, people pleasing or needs for approval; anxiety/depression; black and white thinking; comparing yourself to others; addictions
What does it look like to gain adulthood?
    • Own your opinion and disagree with authority.
    • Identify who it is you’re afraid to speak your mind to.
    • Take people off pedestals and stop comparisons.
    • Try, fail and learn process. Adults increase their expertise over time.
    • See yourself and others as different but equal. It does not diminish you because someone is smarter or faster.
Reflection Questions
    • What are you being prompted to focus on and work on first?
    • Which one or two areas are calling out to you?
    • What is your next step going to be?
Applying What We’ve Learned
    • If you can identify with one of these areas, go find a safe place to process it.
    • Addressing the issue does not always have to be formal. It is a continuum. Get the appropriate level of help you need.
    • Leaders, you can do this for your people. Make space for connection.
    • Church leaders, we have a mental health crisis. You’re on the front lines of communities. The Gospel is the good news for people in these areas of pain. It’s the gospel of regaining self-control, confessing and learning that they are forgiven and growing up and using their gifts and abilities.
    • This is the calling of Jesus: “I came to seek and to save the lost.” This is in your mission.

 

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GLS21 Notes: Mastering Risk

Posted on August 5, 2021 by - Articles, Business, Change Management, Character, Decision-Making, Execution, Leading Organizations, Leading Yourself, Military, Resilience, The Global Leadership Summit

General Stanley McChrystal will be speaking at Global Leadership Summit 2021.

Every day, leaders across the world navigate how to assess, detect, learn from and respond to risk. Drawing from his new book, Risk: A User’s Guide at The Global Leadership Summit, retired 4-star Army General, Stanley McChrystal, gave us a new system to rethink traditional definitions of risk and the role leaders play in facing uncertainty. In this talk, General McChrystal used the lessons he has taken from his career in the military and applied them to organizational psychology. He gave us a pragmatic approach to managing a new global landscape riddled with risks of all kinds.

Enjoy these official session notes from General Stanley’s session to help you dive deeper into what you learned!

General Stanley McChrystal

 

 

We have a risk problem
    • If anyone struggles with humility, I recommend marriage. If that doesn’t work, try grandchildren.
    • In 1979, the Iran hostage crisis occurred. President Carter worked feverishly to get the release of our citizens. He then authorized a rescue attempt, “Operation Eagle Claw.” The plan was complicated. There were ten steps in the process.
    • It’s hard to assess risk. If you look at each phase, they had about a 90% chance of success. Over the course of all ten steps, it makes the total plan about 2.5% chance of success. The mission failed.
    • The rest of my career was impacted. We cannot let the nation down again. We need to mitigate every risk.
    • We have a risk problem. What do leaders do about it? Leaders can’t make risk go away, but they can think about it differently.
Experience at JSOC
    • In 2003, I became leader of JSOC (Joint Special Operations Command). It’s different from most military forces. The average age is 35. Everyone has a family and has been in combat before. You get a high probability for success because of the resources that you put at it.
    • It gets harder at scale. It gets riskier at scale.
    • I was leading a pyramid-shaped hierarchy against Al-Qaeda in Iraq. They were different. It was a constantly changing network. They were wickedly fast, lethal, learning very fast. In this environment, this atypical thing was beating us.
    • As we were performing well in the narrow sense, the overall situation in Iraq was getting worse. We tried doing more. It only got better when we started connecting missions. JSOC almost changed its DNA. It started functioning like the human brain. It made us faster and more effective.
    • We were building an immune system. Immune system detects threats, assesses them, responds to and learns from them.
    • Risk immune system: narrative, structure, diversity, timing, adaptability, action, technology, bias. All connected by communication. All inspired by leadership.
Action – Do Something
    • How often are we sitting around saying, “Someone ought to do something?” and yet no one moves.
    • How do you overcome inertia? In JSOC, we had so many policies. We had a wall of policies around our organization. I asked, “What fool’s policy are those?” The leader of Seal Team 6 said, “It’s yours.” I changed the policy: it can’t be immoral or illegal. Otherwise, act.
Structure
    • We have to empower people to act. The structure has to enable the people who actually have to do it to act.
    • We kept structure for logistics, etc. We changed it for information. Information could flow in any direction.
    • We pushed decision-making down. Push decision-making down until you’re uncomfortable and then push it down one more level.
Communication
    • We leveraged video conferences and opened up to people. 7500 people for 90 minutes a day.
    • You didn’t have to tell people what to do. They could figure it out. They knew the context.
    • October 2003: 1 raid per week; August 2004: 18 raids per month; August 2006: 300 raids per month (kept that pace up for 2.5 years).
    • The difference was how we communicated and made decisions.
Dr Martin Luther King’s Leadership
    • You can get everything else right but if leadership is wrong, you’re always stuttering.
    • The Montgomery Bus Boycott – it was a leadership effort of the community, not just Dr. King.
    • In August 1963, Dr. King went to give a different speech. People were listening but not reacting. A friend says, “Martin, tell them about the dream.” He shifts and changed American oratory history.
    • He leveraged technology.
    • He knew the structure needed diversity.
    • He knew you needed to adapt (the Selma march).
    • People believe in stories. He was arrested and put in jail 12 times. Every time it was to strengthen the narrative.
    • Leadership – he knew he had to keep people moving forward.
    • “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving.”
    • We have a risk problem, but we can fix it. It’s up to us.

 

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GLS21: Hello Fears!

Posted on August 5, 2021 by - Articles, Confidence, Leading Yourself, Resilience, The Global Leadership Summit

Michelle Poler will be speaking at Global Leadership Summit 2021.

It has been said that the strongest of leaders overcome their fears and compel their team to do the same. But what if this isn’t how a great leader tackles fear? What if our best leaders don’t get rid of their fears but lean into them with bravery and pass that courage on to others?

At The Global Leadership Summit, Michelle Poler explored different types of fears and how our body processes them, ways to engage when we feel afraid and the difference between fearless and brave.

Enjoy these official session notes to help you dive deeper into what you learned! 

Michelle Poler

Our Fears and Our Comfort Zones
    • Do you remember your earliest fears? Was it clowns? The dark?
    • Our comfort zone is unique to each of us.
    • They can change and expand as we face our fears.
    • To me, life felt like a checklist that I had to do for society. But was the checklist making me happy?
    • There was an obstacle keeping me from moving forward: fear.
The 100-Day Project
    • 100-Day Project: do anything for 100 days in a row that help me grow
    • I decided to face 100 days without fear and documented it all on YouTube.
    • If you think that was scary, uploading the videos was really scary. 40 days in, my face showed up all over the internet. I soon received messages from all over the world that people were inspired to go after their own fears.
    • The difference between fearless and brave—I had a fearless boss and then a fearful one. What I needed was a brave boss. Someone who despite fear was willing to take action.
    • At the end of the day, I cannot be fearless. I can be brave.
    • The best way is not to hide fears and insecurities. It’s facing the fear and acting.
    • The last fear: #100. I was offered by a big brand the chance to rappel down Rockefeller Center. I declined the offer and instead faced my fear of public speaking…at TEDx Houston.
    • What’s the worst that can happen? It’s the worst question. I flipped the question. What’s the best that could happen? It allowed me to see the possibility that existed. I felt no more fear, only excitement. I got my first standing ovation, and the rest is history.

Understanding Fear

    • I felt the end goal was to eliminate fear. I realized fear is an ally. When we keep fear in its place, it allows us to grow.
    • Now I see every fear not as an obstacle, but an opportunity.
    • I divided fear into three categories: universal fears (no matter where you are born), cultural fears (revolve around our need for belonging and to be loved) and personal fears (keep us from disappointing ourselves)
    • If we are not careful, our need to fit in may hurt our authenticity. When I was speaking at ESPN, I was comparing myself to the speaker in front of me. My imposter syndrome was making me think that I needed to be someone else, instead of myself.
    • “Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some idea we’ve imagined that we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.” – Steven Pressfield
    • The enemy of success is not failure, it’s comfort. Comfort keeps us from innovating. Comfort begs us to look down at our phones rather than sparking a conversation with the person next us.
What Comes Next
    • Day 101, now what? My husband asked, “What if you can inspire people for a living?”
    • Behavioral Inhibition System (BIS) – keeps us from acting
    • Behavioral Activation System (BAS) – tied to reward, encourages you
    • How do you put growth into motion? You have to focus on the reward. I started asking myself, “What’s the best that can happen?”
    • Say “Hello” to your fears!
    • How would you feel if you faced your fears?
    • I checked all my boxes. Start writing your own boxes. What do you want to accomplish?
What would you get uncomfortable for?

 

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GLS21 Notes: Collaboration, Creativity & Conviction

Posted on August 5, 2021 by - Articles, Character, Collaboration, Communication, Complex Thinking, Confidence, Human Resources, Influence, Leading Others, Leading Yourself, Relationship with God, The Global Leadership Summit, Vision

Jerry Lorenzo will be speaking at Global Leadership Summit 2021.

Navigating the complexities of the business world in which you operate and your own inner world as a leader can be perplexing. As American fashion designer and founder of the label, Fear of God, Jerry Lorenzo has learned insightful and thought-provoking ways to think about these complexities.

At The Global Leadership Summit, Craig Groeschel interviewed Jerry Lorenzo asking questions like:

    • In what ways can you break through creative barriers?
    • How should a leader handle the feeling of insecurity?
    • How do you push through the fear of “you’re only as good as your last product”?
    • What are some helpful ways to handle disagreements when collaborating?

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Collaboration Creativity & Conviction - Jerry Lorenzo GLS21 Illustrative SummaryJerry Lorenzo

 

Growing in Creativity
    • I operate from a place of conviction and a place of obedience.
    • I have a conviction for my vision for the future.
    • A lot of creativity comes from problem solving and creating solutions.
    • Starting at the problem is a great way to direct the creativity.
Breaking through Creative Barriers
    • I’m constantly feeding myself. I’m very conscious of what I’m watching on television. I’m conscious of what I’m listening to. It has the potential to feed me what the solution may be.
    • When feeling stuck, fall back and take time away from the problem to feed yourself ideas.
Values-Shaped Leadership
    • As the company grows and I feel over my head, I can remember that I was once there before. It’s a day-by-day thing. As long as I apply myself and am obedient to the call on my life, I have confidence that those answers are going to come.
    • By being the same person consistently, 100% of the time, I am open to solutions for the purpose and plan for my life.
    • Strive to be the same person in every area of your life.
What’s Holding Back Your Leadership?
    • It’s easy to get caught in the prison of other people’s perceptions of who you are.
    • Bishop T.D. Jakes said, “The quickest way to leave your history is to run after your destiny.”
    • In order to run after your destiny, I ask, what is the inventory I need to take of my personal life?
    • It’s easier to make decisions when you know where you are going. You’re focused on your destiny. You’re no longer focused on the opinions of others. You’re no longer focused on the shame of your past or the shame of your present.
    • Vision provides a roadmap for where you want to go.
    • Discipline is choosing what you want most over what you want now.
Dealing with Insecurity
    • I put the pressures on the One who made me which takes them off my back.
    • I’m going to be a mirror to the light. I’m going to be an echo to the voice.
    • When things get heavy, I shift my focus. When you feel insecure, shift your focus.
    • Your best ideas come from outside of you.
    • When you get into a creative rut, ask yourself, “What is the problem?”
Collaboration
    • To be a great leader, you must collaborate.
    • When collaborating, do you both see the future the same way?
    • When you hit a point where you are stuck in collaborating, start with humility.
    • If needed, step back and reconsider ideas that have been presented to you.
Hiring for Vision
    • When hiring, ask, “Do they believe in what you are doing?” and “Do they believe in the vision?”
    • If it’s something they believe in, it will take them past their competency.
    • When you make a hiring decision based on expertise, the conversation is boxed-in, and you may miss the bigger picture.

 

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GLS21 Notes: Expanding Your Leadership Capacity

Posted on August 5, 2021 by - Articles, Change Management, Complex Thinking, Decision-Making, Leading Organizations, Resilience

Craig Groeschel stands on the Summit stage.

There is one thing that all leaders have in common—complex problems! The longer you lead the more complex and difficult the problems can be to solve. There comes a point in your leadership when you must grow and change in order to move your organization forward, reach more people and have a greater impact.

In his talk at The Global Leadership Summit, Craig Groeschel asked leaders to consider two questions to help them grow in their capacity to lead through the pain and uncertainty that challenges bring.

Enjoy these official session notes to help you dive deeper into what you learned!

Craig Groeschel

 

Growing in Your Capacity for PUC
    • Everyone wins when the leader gets better. Are you ready to grow in your leadership?
    • The next time we endure a global pandemic, all the unrest, you will have experience.
    • I was looking for the one word that describes the essence of what every growing leader must endure. I couldn’t find the word I was looking for, so I made up a word: PUC.
    • I like it because it sounds unpleasant. It is memorable. You must grow in your capacity to handle Pain, Uncertainty, Chaos (PUC).
Chaos
    • How many control freaks do we have? As leaders, we want simplicity. We want healthy systems. In order to grow, we must be able to endure chaos. Anything that grows will have a little bit of chaos.
    • You can have control, or you can have growth, but you can’t have both.
    • Too much control stifles growth. Some of you are in a bureaucratic nightmare. Rules, policies and procedures are organizational scar tissue. When someone is dumb, manage dumb. Lead them; don’t make another rule.
    • I was trying to manage everything, and I had a leader in my organization come and tell me that I was getting in the way of progress. If we’re always controlling, we rob others of the chance to grow.
    • I don’t interview like I used to. I endure significant seasons of chaos so other leaders could grow and become excellent talent spotters.
    • We kept them by enabling them to lead. You get there by trusting, empowering and enduring chaos.
    • The best leaders don’t obsess about controlling outcomes. The best leaders obsess about empowering leaders.
    • The mark of great leadership isn’t measured by how much you control, but by the leaders you empower.
Application:
    • What are you controlling that you need to let go?
    • If you don’t know, ask the person that works for you or around you. They will be happy to contribute to your education. If you want to grow, you have to let go.
Uncertainty
    • The only thing that we know for certain is that the future is uncertain.
    • “Uncertainty is not an indication of poor leadership; it underscores the need for leadership.” – Andy Stanley
    • Because our world is uncertain, a good leader plans for unforeseen challenges. A great leader also plans for unexpected opportunities. Wherever there is uncertainty, there is always opportunity.
    • The most significant and impactful things that we have done were born in uncertain times and were things we never planned to do.
    • 2001—we pioneered the multisite movement.
    • 2006—we created a church online platform. We didn’t plan it.
    • In 2020, we gave it away to 45,000 churches. We didn’t plan on giving away the YouVersion Bible App to billions. We didn’t plan on a podcast.
    • Create margin for opportunities that you cannot predict. Create margin today for opportunities coming tomorrow.
    • We didn’t just see the idea. We were able to execute because we had the margin.
    • If you have margins, you can seize the opportunity.
    • “Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until later.” – Bob Goff
    • What’s the problem? The world is incredibly uncertain, and I feel it.
    • In uncertain times, leaders often have a goal to not fail. It’s a bad goal. The cost of inaction is almost always greater than the cost of a mistake.
    • We were about to break ground in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in the middle of the pandemic. We had to decide if we were going to break ground or if we were going to retreat. We got together and asked difficult questions. I told our team, “If we’re going to make mistakes, I want to make aggressive mistakes. I want to make mistakes in faith rather than in fear.”
Application:
    • What risk do you need to take?
    • There’s always risk. The world could fall apart. It just did. There is always uncertainty, which means there is always opportunity.
    • What idea, theory or hunch do you have? If it is still in your heart, maybe it is for a reason.
    • If you wait until you’re 100% sure, you will most always be late.
Pain
    • There is no pain like leadership pain.
    • There are always opportunities, but always at a cost. With more influence are more resources and opportunities, but also more challenges and burdens. With more people working for you, you can accomplish more, but you get all the drama too.

2 Corinthians 11:23-28: I have worked harder, been put in prison more often, been whipped times without number, and faced death again and again. 24 Five different times the Jewish leaders gave me thirty-nine lashes. 25 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked. Once I spent a whole night and a day adrift at sea. 26 I have traveled on many long journeys. I have faced danger from rivers and from robbers. I have faced danger from my own people, the Jews, as well as from the Gentiles. I have faced danger in the cities, in the deserts, and on the seas. And I have faced danger from men who claim to be believers but are not. 27 I have worked hard and long, enduring many sleepless nights. I have been hungry and thirsty and have often gone without food. I have shivered in the cold, without enough clothing to keep me warm. 28 Then, besides all this, I have the daily burden of my concern for all the churches.

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