We are excited to announce the famed adventurer, television host, author and philanthropist Bear Grylls is part of our GLS Special Edition Business. He will share lessons learned from his adventures, including the importance of courage, kindness and not giving up. Here is some background to Bear’s learning in life, which we hope will inspire […]
GLS19 speaker, Bear Grylls, talks with Summit Executive Producer, Lori Hermann, about how he stays balanced in the midst of such a busy, successful career. He discusses how his team worked together to create his latest project, You vs. Wild.
Process Tools from T.D. Jakes’ GLS 2018 Session: Soar! Your Vision. T.D. Jakes shares that if you have a vision that everybody believes in, it is too small. You need to think about something that scares you! What vision, too big to speak, is currently in your mind and heart? As big as it seems, describe […]
A vision can be tormenting, annoying, aggravating and frustrating. If you have a vision that everybody believes in, it’s too small for you. You don’t want a vision that’s believable. You want a vision that is achievable without being believable. You want your vision to challenge you and that brings the best out of you. […]
Feedback from GLS 2018 delegates indicated a training need for greater confidence in their leadership. Below is a helpful article on some behind-the-scenes work required to improve our leadership effectiveness. You can read the original article here and find more articles on Confidence here. Leaders like to lead. It’s what we do. And when we say we like to lead, […]
Feedback from GLS 2018 delegates indicated a training need for greater confidence in their leadership. Below is a confidence-building article for anyone with big dreams and limited resources. You can read the original article here and find more articles on Confidence here. The year was 1969. Fresh out of college and newly married to my long-time love, Margaret, I stepped […]
Fredrik Härén, one of the world’s experts on creativity, spoke at the Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit 2017. The following excerpt is taken from his bestseller “The Idea Book.” Break Old Ways of Thinking We humans are curious creatures of habit. If we were not curious about the world, then we would still be living in […]
At the Global Leadership Summit a number of years ago Andy Stanley talked about the best leadership decision he ever made. This decision was made at a time when he was starting North Point Community Church and his children were very small. He had heard people saying, “there is plenty of time to get everything […]
Exerpt from Gordon MacDonald’s Ordering Your Private World seminar, 2003. Question: So would you see drivenness as an element of passion? Because you can be passionate about something and therefore you’re driven to achieve it and passion is a gift from God. Answer: We’re fooling with words here and that’s why you’ll […]
Exerpt from Gordon MacDonald’s Ordering Your Private World seminar, 2003. Question: Is there a good to drivenness and if we didn’t have driven people would we have some of the organisations we have? Answer: We wouldn’t have some of the organisations we have. In fact I’ll go further than you were going…my […]
