one-liners from Leadership Summit

August 9, 2008 at 1:23 pm (Leadership) (, , )

Since I have learned that shorty, pithy statements can help in leadership, I should share some of those one-liners I picked up over the past 2 days.  I do not remember all of the speakers who shared them, but when I do, I will stick that in there, too.

* Reward your best performers; remove your worst performers – Colin Powell, as quoted by Bill Hybels

* Check your ego at the door.  – Colin Powell, as quoted by Bill Hybels

* The best way to get rid of your enemy is to make him your friend.  Abraham Lincoln, as quoted by Bill Hybels

* He who you would change, you must first love.  -Martin Luther King, Jr., as quoted by Chuck Colson

* Vision leaks.  -Bill Hybels

* Get the right people around the table.  -Bill Hybels

* Facts are your friends.  -Bill Hybels

* When something feels funky…engage.  -Bill Hybels.  Or, in less pithy words, the problems that you sense aren’t going to go away on their own; they will fester and spread.  You, the leader, need to step in and engage the problem ASAP.

* Leaders call fouls.  -Bill Hybels

* Take a flyer.  -Bill Hybels; a flyer is a calculate, but crazy risk.

* This is church.  -Bill Hybels

* Wherever you go, you take you with you.  -Bill George (I think)

* You don’t learn by studying; you learn by doing.  -Bill George

* There are 100 cents in every dollar.  -unknown

* Just because I am fascinated by something and others are following, doesn’t mean I am leading them in something that matters to Jesus.  -Gary Haugen

* [In the story of Jesus feeding the 5,000], Jesus didn’t ask for what was needed; he asked for what they had.  – Gary Haugen

* Jesus did not come to make us safe, but to make us brave.  -Gary Haugen

* The first thing to disappear when spiritual life is diminishing…is laughter.  -Dallas Willard, as quoted by Gary Haugen

* To reach people who have not been reached, you have to do things others are not doing.  To do things others are not doing, you have to not do things others are doing.  -Craig Groeschel

* Here’s some tweasers for when you get off that fence.  -Jeff DeArment

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