CFA Leadercast Notes
Here are a few of my notes. Some really good take away quotes (or my paraphrases). In my next post I’ll share a few of my personal thoughts, but in the meantime, here’s an abbreviated version of what was said at the Chick-fil-A Leadercast.
Muhtar Kent (CEO of Coke):
- When there is no agenda, sometimes the best ideas are generated.
- Stay fresh in your thinking.
- Be able to carry your own bags.
- What keeps me up at night? Arrogance.
Suzy Welch:
- We are not the same person we were when we were 23. We are not who we used to be or who we are yet to become.
- Connect your decision making to your values.
- Two deadly Gs of decision making: (stop reacting)
- Gut
- Guilt
- Get on the road to who you are going to become.”
- Ask yourself 3 questions: (leads to living authentically – leads to joy)
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- What would make you cry at your 70th Birthday?
- What do you want people to say about your when you aren’t in the room?
- What did you love about your upbringing and what did you hate?
- 10 min./10 months/10 years – when making a decision.
Frans Johansson (Author of The Medici Effect)
- Diversity drives innovation.
- People who change the world try far more ideas.
- Because we’re horrible at predicting what ideas will work
- Do something small. The first step leads to the next.
Sir Ken Robinson
- You cannot train a dog to pole dance. It’s a waste of a weekend.
- Imagination is the source of every form of human innovation.
Mack Brown (Coach of Texas football)
- If your mother, wife or girlfriend invites you to go on Jerry Springer… don’t go.
- Don’t be the 40 year old who talks about what you did at age 19. Do more stuff.
- Keep moving forward.
- Use success as a springboard to do the next thing.
- Reinvent yourself every year.
- Create and edge every day.
- Quit griping about your work or quit.
- Take responsibility.
Seth Godin (Author of Linchpin)
- Artists use their platform and skill to do what is worth doing. Artists start conversations worth having.
