Global Leadership Summit /// Day Two

The Global Leadership Summit is a great leadership event we hosted at Central Peninsula Church.  Here are my bullet point notes from day two (please note, I don't have notes from every session).

Vijay Govindarajan

• Strategy is about leadership in the future
• Box #1: Manage the present
• Box #2: Forget the past (selectively)
• Box #3: Create the future
• How do you create the future while you manage the present?
• Innovation is not just ideas, innovation is commercializing creativity 
• Innovate leaders need to be humble
• How are we creatively working towards the future (VG gave the example: if you want to eat fruit in 5 years, you need to plan the tree today)
• Conflicts are not bad, conflicts are healthy as long as you know how to manage conflict on your team
• Spend a little, earn A LOT
• Innovations is about value for money

Dr. Brené Brown 

• Studies: vulnerability, courage and shame
• The irreducible needs of people: Love & Belonging (in the absence of Love & Belonging there is always shame)
• Shame says: "I'm not enough"
• Love isn't something we give, it something we cultivate (only when self love is involved)
• We can't give what we don't have (example: courage, sense of belonging or permission for grace)
• We can't give help when we're scared to ask for help
• How do we navigate the gap from what we profess to what we practice
• To find shame you have to shine light in dark places
• Blame is toxic in organizations
• Make space for people to fit in; for them to show up and be seen for who they are
• We are born to be brave
• You can choose courage or you can choose comfort but you can't choose them both; they are mutually exclusive. 

Dr. Henry Cloud

• Henry talked through three things that ruin our thinking: personal, pervasive, permanent
• Don't take it personal
• The thought process pervades the brain and makes things seem bad
• When is pervades the brain you think: "it will always be this way" and it becomes permanent.  
• Think about your greatest accomplishments in life
• Your life is more than a scene, its an entire movie.  Every good movie has scenes of crisis.
• Your brain runs on three things: oxygen, glucose and relationships
• Connect by talking about healing
• Be in control of what you can be in control of