- Willow will celebrate it’s 40th
- Armed with enough humility, leaders can learn from anyone.
- With sufficient levels of humility, religious people can learn from leaders in other walks of life, and vice-versa.
- 8 Critical Functions of Leadership
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5 Intangibles of Leadership
- Grit
Unremitting long-term tenacity.
Willingness to use every last drop of human effort to move something ahead.
-Gritty people play hurt
-Gritty people expect obstacles, but also believe they can overcome them.
-“The Little Engine That Could”
-Grit can be developed by anyone who wants it.
-The arch-enemy of grit is ease.
-Grit development demands difficulty.
-Most elite leaders push themselves physically because it conditions them to deal with difficulty.
-When you grow grit in one area of your life it overflows into other areas as well.
-When senior leaders display grit (push themselves hard and over deliver), the more others in the organization will develop grit.
-Gritty organizations are unstoppable. - Self-Awareness
-When you hear about a meltdown in an organization, it can usually be traced to a leader with low self-awareness.
-Low self-awareness leads to blind spots.
-Blind spots are those things that someone believes they do well, but everyone else on the team knows it’s not true.
– The danger with blind spots is that you have no idea they exist.
-The average person has 3.4 blind spots that they don’t know they have.
-If you don’t think you have any blind spots, ask your wife and your mother-in-law!
How do you grow in self-awareness?
-Not in isolation. You need other people speaking into your life.
-Demands feedback from others
-Requires vulnerable conversations with trusted mentors, counselors, and advisors. - Resourcefulness
-Resourceful people are quick learners, endlessly curious, tweakers, inventers, etc.
-People with high learning agility roll up their sleeves and figure out what it is they need to do go to the next level or get things done.
-Resourcefulness can be developed but the primary way it is developed is by putting yourself in situations that are confused, broken, or dysfunctional and staying in it until you force yourself to find a way forward. - Self-sacrificing Love
-Story of David forming his army. God led him to love them like family. To serve them, invest in them, pray for them, etc.
-What God was teaching David in his early years is that self-sacrificing love is the core of the core of leadership.
-1 Cor. 13:8 – Love never fails.
-We live in a day with leaders who have narcissistic blood running through their veins.
-People are yearning for self-sacrificing love.
-Everyone in the org takes their cues from senior leaders.
-Gallup – “What separates a high-performing org from a low performing org?”:
Do workers feel personal concern coming from their managers?
Get personal. Say those words of affirmation. It will create a high performance culture!
The quality of the senior leader’s loving will set the tone of the entire organization.
- Creating A Sense of Meaning
-We should change every person in the organization’s title to “Chief Meaning Officer.”
-We have to explain the WHY.
-You’re white hot why…why do you do what you do?
-When you discover what’s in your “why” you’ll either determine more focus or you’ll figure out that what you’re doing is meaningless.
-Examples:
-Steve Jobs – wanted to change the world (not build computer)
-Howard Schultz (Starbucks) – wanted to provide a space for people to connect (not sell coffee)
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