In addition to local talent; Dan Carter, Noel Coppins and Cate Collins, Leadercast2015 in Oshawa featured eleven fabulous speakers who shared their views on bravery and leading with a posture of unrelenting boldness.
Tons of takeaways were tweeted using hashtags #Leadercast2015 #TheBraveOnes and #Leadercast, a downloadable app, and tons of social media goodies including one special quote for each speaker on the Leadercast Instagram and Facebook spaces.
Here are my favourite takeaways:
BILL RANCIC & GIULIANA RANCIC, Award-winning personalities and co-hosts of Leadercast
- Keep your word, honour, committments, and they will double back to honour you.
ANDY STANLEY, Leadership Communicator & Author
- Uncertainty is not an indication of poor leadership; it underscores the need for leadership.
BILL MCDERMOTT, CEO of SAP AE
- Be bold, Be real, Believe. Read more on his linkedin post.
- Focus on your strengths and do what your competition can’t or won’t do
- Don’t obsess over the competition. Obsess over the white space they haven’t covered yet!
- Trust is the ultimate human currency.
CMDR RORKE DENVER, Navy Seal Commander & Author
- Advance on fear. Lean into the pain.
- Definition of ‘harmonic gate’
MALALA YOUSAFZAI, Novel Laureate and Founder of the Malala Fund
- When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
- We have to step forward.
- Always believe in a happy ending — like in movies.
- Bravery has no limits.
PEYTON MANNING, Super Bowl-Winning Quarterback & 5-Time NFL NVP
- Learn to thrive on being uncomfortable.
- Devote yourself to intense preparation.
- Invest in a coach.
- Find a way to install trust in others.
- Bravely adjust to new realities.
- Become a master observer.
- Understand the sustaining power of influence.
SETH GODIN, Innovative Thinker. Best selling author
- Treat everyone like the the last one.
- Bravery is not for other people anymore. Bravery is for us
- 5 Keys to Bravery; tension, obsession, connection, direction & compassion
ED CATMULL, President of Pixar & Disney Animated Studios
- Zero dumb ideas is a bad way to start.
- Be patient. Be authentic. And be consisten. The trust will come.
- To be successful, you must be brave enough to start something new.
- 3 Steps: Try something new. Fix.what’s not working. Lock and load.
- The ‘we’ is smarter than the ‘I’
- 4 Braintrust principals; peer-to-peer, shared ownership in success, remove power structure, give & listen to honest notes
AJA BROWN, Mayor of Compton
- Leaders don’t make excuses, they lead.
- Step into the things that seem impossible.
- Elevate your expectations and vision.
- It’s the person who is obsessed who creates something remarkable. Be too obsessed with what you’re doing to compromise.
- Leaders have learned to deminish fear of failure
- Be brave enough to believe in a different future
RUDY GIULIANI, 107th Mayor of New York City (1993-2001)
- Leadership is not about you. It’s about everyone that works for you.
- Let fear motivate you.Put it in the right place. Prepare and take the fear out of it.
- You need strong beliefs and you need to stick to them.
- Be an optimist. Be a problem solver. Every problem can be less severe
Many thanks to the wonderful sponsors and volunteers for leading and making this special day possible!
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Next year’s Leadercast is Friday, May 6, 2016. See you there?
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