My Favorite Comments, Books and Notes on Leadership

• Success is going from failure to failure without loosing enthusiasm - Winston Churchill
• How to make your dreams come true - you do it by working.” - Walt Disney
• Energy needed to inspire others!
• Do not stop dreaming
• Originality is the best marketing and advertizing
• Keep creative people around you
• Jeff Bezos - Amazon.
       Content is King
       Must be customer centric
       Invention is in our DNA
       Be stubborn on the big things, and flexible on the details
       Be willing to fail and be misunderstood
       Danger of professional managers is they try to change the vision
• Steve Jobs - CEO Apple Computer.
      “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
      “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
      "Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.”
      "Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice.
      "...have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
      You've got to start with customer experience and then build the technology.
      Be a yardstock of quality. Some people are not used to an environment where excellance is expected
• From Apple we can learn:
      The passion for beauty and excellence.
      To be daily challenged with innovation.
      To focus on where we make a difference.
      Sell dreams and experiences, not products.
      In presentations, simplify and use short one sentence vision statements.
• Courageous Leadership by Bill Hybels
      Many lessons from the courage of Esther.
      When are you going to make your mark?
      When are you going to start leading courageously?
      We are going to have to....a more relevant, thoughtful and creative...
      Create ... dream teams.
• Good to Great by Jim Collins.
      Get great people.
      Focus on your passion.
      Must be something where you can be best.
      Let this drive an economic engine.
• MichaelHyatt.com blog
• Jack Welch - The 4 E's of Leadership.
      E - Great people have energy.
      E - They energize others.
      E - Seem to have the edge in making decisions.
      E - They can execute (get things done).
      P - They have passion.
      Also create a vision, then get out of the way!
      Also get ideas from anyone and everywhere!
• From Google we can learn:
      Get smart people.
      Establish a creative environment.
      Be an outlet for ideas.
      Encourage user-centered design.
      Recognize ideas can come from anywhere.
• "God is more interested in our success (in church growth) than we are", "When there is no growth, The root cause is the leaderships lack of vision for the church by failure to fellowship with the Holy Spirit" - Paul Cho
From a book called "Win" we can learn:
    “Steve Jobs was able to get into a user's mind and determine the best.”
     Steve Jobs speaks in public at 5th and 6th grade level.
     People like change and new things, but they like it in small steps.
     Need to connect with our users.
• Make things happen - be a CEO
• Happy people are more likely to be creative
• Only the Paranoid Survive, Andy Grove (Intel) –
      Sooner or later, something fundamental in your business world will change.
• Simon Sinek: How Great Leaders Inspire Action: see video on TED.
1. People don't buy what you do they buy why you do it
2. Hire people that believe what you believe and not because they can do a job.
3. We follow those who lead not because we have to but because we want to.
• The business enterprise has two..basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs”. -- Peter F. Drucker
Someone once said, "The only thing constant is change". Fear and anxiety holds us back - Drew Haninger The Product is the marketing... The eBook Content is the marketing... Get everyone in their 'sweet' spot where they are happy and productive.
• Be at the intersection of art and technology.
• Iron sharpens Iron - so its ok to disagree with each other... Proverbs 27:17 As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.
• You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. -- Help others, they will help you. Zig Ziglar
• Ignore the competition, and create something new.
• Learn from other winners.
• Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination." -Mark Twain ... The point is communicate the vision even if not yet well worded.
• Focus on what is essential.,
• Focus on a few things and get them out the door,
• Finish what is almost done
• Finish the things we have started.
• If not easy to use, it will not be used. (features in software and hardware systems)
• Develop core Bible technology
• Everything will go digital, virtual and mobile.
• Tenacious to research until we finds a solution, crash and discover the problem.
• A leader’s most import job is to connect things, a person alone can accomplish nothing and is powerless.
• Business is not about technology; it is about using technology to make money. Most IT people simply do not understand that, They often look down on simple solutions and instead engage in complex, expensive projects that in the end don't deliver. Business needs solutions, not cool technology. -- (different from Apple)
• Learn to say 'no' to the good, so you can say 'yes' to the best - John Maxwell
• Good people equals good management and good management equals good people. They have to work together or they won’t work together for very long. I’ve seen good management get by with mediocre people, and I’ve also seen excellent people get stuck in the mires of bad management. The good managers will eventually leave, followed by the good workers, and you will be left with a team that gets along because they’re all mediocre. Save yourself time by getting the best people you can. Sometimes this can mean choosing attitude over experience and credentials. Use your creativity to come up with a good mix. (Trump)
• Creative people rarely need to be motivated–they have their own inner drive that refuses to be bored. They refuse to be complacent. They live on the edge, which is precisely what is needed to be successful and remain successful. - Donald Trump
• Get a Great Assistant
. Surround yourself with great people you can trust. I often say it’s good to be paranoid, but not when it comes to your home team. - Donald Trump
• Do what you are best at (maybe technology), not too many wild projects, simplify and reduce complexity, - Drew Haninger
• What could we do that seems impossible,
• Do not give up, be fill of passion, be enthustic… - Drew Haninger
• Everything in its proper time - Ecclesiast. 3:1 To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven:
• Look for beauty in Life - Drew Haninger - Ecclesiast. 3:11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts...
• God is creative, so we should be creative also - Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created... be an imitator of God
• The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority - Ken Blanchard
• Time Management tips
  • Clean up your work area. Messy desk means spending up to 60 minutes per day looking for things or being distracted by things
  • Start each day with a plan, do the right things, else the loudest voice in the day will run the day.
  • Take breaks – Lunch and breaks keeps our batteries charged and ready for the new challenges.
• Don’t let a critical person keep you from your dream.
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• Keep creative people around you - Drew
• Build an environment around you that supports your goals; people, pictures, music, windows, views, food, lighting — everything has an impact. - Tony Jeary
• Move from great to mastery in all you do. . . including your relationship with God – Tony Jeary

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My tribute to Steve Jobs who passed away ...October 5, 2011

Steve Jobs has said "follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path", this sounds like Ecclesiast. 3:11 "He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts...." The word beautiful in the verse also characterizes the way Steve designs things.

Steve said "Don't loose heart" which sounds like Phil 3:13 But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call ....

Steve said " If you haven't found it yet, keep looking, and don't settle. which sounds like Matthew 6:33 "But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Also like Matthew 7:7 " Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. "

Steve Jobs, great user experience in his products but he also had a spiritual side. He did not believe things were random.

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