Bill George – Finding Your True North
Professor, Harvard Business School – Former CEO Medtronic
Has the book – True North
Are you using all your gifts to be the leader God called you to be?
Challenge: Think about your own leadership and ask yourself – “Am I doing everything I can to make the world a better place?”
Nelson Mandela – favorite leader. Always quotes a poem – Mary Ann Williams – Our greatest Fear.
A lot of our leaders have lost their true north. From pressures, or they were seduced by money, fame, power, and glory.
Leadership is about empowering other people to step up and lead.
* We have knowledge workers – who know more than their bosses. They need to lead, and we need to let them.
- You have a right to find meaning and significance in work.
21st Century Leaders
1. Align people around values.
2. Empower them to step up and lead.
3. Serve – serve the people you lead.
4. Collaborate with other people and organizations.
The company was changing me more than I was changing it.
Make the transition from I to we.
6 ways for a leader to develop.
1. Understand the purpose of your leadership
- Follow your compass and not your clock – It’s not the time in your life, but the direction.
2. Gain self-awareness.
- Get feedback
- Go have experiences in the real world.
- Be introspective – pray and meditate.
3. Have Values – and practice them.
4. Follow your intrinsic motivation – your motivated capabilities.
5. Build a support team around you.
6. Lead an integrated life.
- You won’t be perfectly balanced – be the same person in every environment your in.
At the end of your life – your grandkids are going to ask what did you to make a difference in the world. Could you answer it?
Each of us can work to change a small series of events – JFK.
Everyone I’ve sen fail as a leader have not failed to lead others, but themselves. They weren’t grounded. know who you are, what you want to do and where you are going and you won’t crumple – Impostors and Glory Seekers.
It hurts so many other people when you do fail.
Wendy Kopp – Stand up and Lead
CEO and Founder, Teach for America
This was an interview – she used more Bill George stuff than anything – compelling and insightful. Butnot much to write down. Sorry.