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Session 1: Vision to Die For
Bill Hybels
- Vision must be discussed to be owned
- Are you
willing to die for the vision?
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Session 6: A
Personal Conversation with
Colin Powell
- Promote a clash of ideas
- Design ways to probe the organization into your
routine.
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Session 2: Tough Choices
Carly Fiorina
- Integrity, realism are essential
- Management is accomplishing acceptable results within
known constraints. Leadership is motivating people to try
something new.
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Session 7: A Leader’s
Greatest Fear
John Ortberg
- What is your shadow mission?
- One sign you are on a shadow mission is deep soul
dissatisfaction.
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Session 3: The Heat of
Responsibility
Floyd Flake
- Great Society legislation was not effective because
it had no means of
empowerment—it provided homes for people but no way for people to
become homeowners.
- Know who you are, what you are doing, where you are
going
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Session 8: Living for the
Greater Good
Film-maker Richard Curtis
- Make sure to hire people who will play the part
superbly, not because they are well known
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Session 4: Go Put Your
Strengths To Work
Markus Buckingham
- The purpose of life is to build on your strengths,
not to shore up your weaknesses
- Change one thing every week to move you toward your
strengths
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Session 9: Building Humanity
Jimmy Carter
- Give subordinates opportunities to make real
decisions (e.g. his father’s approach to Jimmy)
- The goal of the Carter Center is so that people will
say “let’s go to Washington, they love peace.”
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Session 5: Strategy and
Leadership
Professor Michael Porter
- A lot of church/corporate social programs is really
about the organization feeling good about themselves
- How can you add value (good per unit resource spent)?
- Should an economics Ph.D. be building houses
(unskilled labor) or working with community leaders (skilled labor)?
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Session 10: Whatever You Do,
Inspire Me!
Bill Hybels
- Motivation makes a huge difference in
productivity
- It is your job to keep yourself motivated.
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