Leading in Challenging Times: Featured Speaker Showcase
Throughout 2020, Vistage has been committed to bringing you the Leading in Challenging Times webinar series, which cuts through the noise and provides the definitive source of thought leadership on topics that matter most to small and midsize businesses. Here is trusted advice and perspectives from renowned featured guests and top Vistage speakers.
Leadership challenge #1: Reminding your people about what’s important
“The CEO of a company is really the CRO — the Chief Reminding Officer. And the job of great CEOs is to reiterate their most important messages.”
Patrick Lencioni
Best-selling Author, Coach and Speaker
Founder and President of The Table Group
Leadership challenge #2: Building trust and providing safety
“It’s one thing to say we have values. It’s another thing to create an experience in a way that people can actually feel those values.”
Michael Bush
CEO, Great Place to Work
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Leadership challenge #3: Simplifying work
“Complexity is destroying our companies. Complexity is the enemy of meaningful work.”
Lisa Bodell
CEO, FutureThink
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Leadership challenge #4: Building winning teams
“Anyone in your company might have a crucial idea or an observation that could be mission-critical, that could dramatically impact performance. You need to rely on teams and teamwork to make progress. You need to build a culture that is conducive to teaming and innovation.”
Dr. Amy Edmondson
Norvartis Professor of Leadership and Management
Harvard Business School
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Leadership challenge #5: Thriving in uncertainty
“People don’t want a perfect leader, they want an authentic leader. Uncertainty isn’t the issue. The issue is clarity. Embrace the benefits of uncertainty. Get out of automatic and become more intentional.”
John C. Maxwell
Best-selling Author
Founder and President of The Table Group
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Leadership challenge #6: Remaining calm and on task
“We need to exert self-control in a world out of control. The more out of control the conditions are, the more disciplined you need to be.”
Jim Collins
Author and Socratic Advisor to Leaders
Leadership challenge #7: Experiencing worlds of thought outside your comfort zone
“Experiencing environments outside the ones that a leader is familiar with will expand that leader’s perspective and give that leader the ability to better understand events and formulate alternative solutions for problems and issues. Don’t get caught in an echo chamber of thought. Free your mind.”
Jocko Willink
Author and Retired U.S. Navy SEAL
Co-founder and CEO of Echelon Front
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Category : Leadership
Topic : Leading in Challenging Times
About the Author: Joe Galvin
Joe Galvin is the Chief Research Officer for Vistage Worldwide. Vistage members receive the most credible, data-driven and actionable thought leadership on the strategic issues facing CEOs. Through collaboration with the Vistage community of…