{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1","title":"Stephen Braunius","home_page_url":"https://stephen.braunius.org","feed_url":"https://stephen.braunius.org/json/","description":"<p>Seek | Do | Share</p><p>I have always loved to learn new things and put that knowledge to use. This is where I share what I’m learning.</p>","icon":"/media/production/images/item-03dca25ffbbc24c77ac4bc2c4d97c965.png","favicon":"/media/production/images/item-03dca25ffbbc24c77ac4bc2c4d97c965.png","authors":[{"name":"Stephen Braunius"}],"language":"en-us","items":[{"id":"0OfsCvp-kF7","title":"GLS15: Session 1 Bill Hybels","url":"https://stephen.braunius.org/i/gls15-session-1-bill-hybels/","authors":[{"name":"Stephen Braunius"}],"content_html":"<p>Global Leadership Summit 2015<br/>\n Session 1<br/>\n Bill Hybels , The Intangibles of Leadership</p>\n<h3>Welcome and Introduction</h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Leadership is moving people from here to there</li>\n<li>Leadership is all about movement</li>\n<li>we, as leaders are at different points in the journey: - can I do it?</li>\n<li>can I sustain it?</li>\n<li>can I take it across the finish line?</li>\n<li>humility is the highest value at the Summit</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>The Intangibles of Leadership</h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Book: The Intangibles of Leadership (Richard Davis)</li>\n<li>5 aspects of leadership</li>\n<li><strong>(1) Grit</strong>- “passion and perseverance over the long haul”</li>\n<li>unrelenting steely determination over decades</li>\n<li>“gritty people play hurt”</li>\n<li>gritty people believe they can overcome any obstacle that comes there way</li>\n<li>Book: The Little Engine that Could “I think I can. I think I can. I think I can.” &amp; “I thought I could. I thought I could. I thought I could.”</li>\n<li>Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr.</li>\n<li>Do you have grit? <a href=\"http://www.willowcreek.com/Survey\">www.willowcreek.com/Survey</a> for grit assessment</li>\n<li>Can grit be developed? Yes - “The arch enemy of grit is ease”</li>\n<li>“Grit development demands difficulty.”</li>\n<li>Grit grows every time you prove to yourself that you can overcome an obstacle.</li>\n<li>“Will yourself to task achievement.”</li>\n<li>Elite leaders know that overcoming physical challenges builds grit.</li>\n<li>Over-deliver when asked to do something by supervisor</li>\n<li>When senior leaders demonstrate grit teammates and followers notice and develop more grit in themselves.</li>\n<li>“Gritty organizations are unstoppable.”</li>\n<li><strong>(2) Self-Awareness</strong>- leaders have things that happened in the past that impact what they do in the present (tethered to something in the past)</li>\n<li>messes in an organization are often connected to low self-awareness</li>\n<li>blind spots in leaders - “something someone believes they do well but everyone on the team knows it isn’t true.”</li>\n<li>most leaders have 3–4 blind spots</li>\n<li>the danger is that you have no idea the blind spot exists</li>\n<li>once you know a blind spot you can move it into the weakness category for work</li>\n<li>the people around you can help you identify them…especially direct supervisor or spouse</li>\n<li>often requires conversations with co-workers, counselor, or coach</li>\n<li>“Everybody will win when you grow in self-awareness.”</li>\n<li><strong>(3) Resourcefullness</strong>- ability to learn</li>\n<li>in the face of difficult problems, people with high learning agility roll up their sleeves and figure out to do</li>\n<li>the Wright Brothers are an example…they figured it out</li>\n<li>“Resourceful people figure it out.”</li>\n<li>Resourcefulness can be developed - need to put yourself in confusing and dysfunctional situations to grow it</li>\n<li>organizations need resourceful people</li>\n<li><strong>(4) Self-Sacrificing Love</strong>- story of David and his troops (I Samuel 22:2) and the water they got for him (2 Samuel 23:17)</li>\n<li>“Self-sacrificing love is at the very core of leadership.”</li>\n<li>I Corinthians 13:8 “Love never fails.”</li>\n<li>“Love changes people.”</li>\n<li>Love turns a rag-tag group of people into a family</li>\n<li>we live in a day where many leaders are narcassistic</li>\n<li>the senior leader must demonstrate self-sacrificing love</li>\n<li>organizations perform better when supervisors truly love those they supervise</li>\n<li>don’t hesitate a moment to show love to teammates…get personal</li>\n<li><strong>(5) Create a Sense of Meaning</strong>- almost everyone understands the “What” and “How” of the organization. Many don’t know the “Why”</li>\n<li>leaders in tomorrows world must share the why of the organization</li>\n<li>“What is your white hot why?”</li>\n<li>Your “why” will fuel you or will need to be changed to something that will fuel you</li>\n<li>Ephesians 2:8–9</li>\n<li>the message of what Christ does transformed Bill’s life and became his “white hot why” of “Transformed Lives”</li>\n<li>find out your “white hot why”…life is too short to live without one</li>\n</ul><p><em>Originally published on stephen.braunius.org</em></p>","content_text":"Global Leadership Summit 2015\n\nSession 1\n\nBill Hybels , The Intangibles of Leadership\n\nWelcome and Introduction\n\nLeadership is moving people from here to there\n\nLeadership is all about movement\n\nwe, as leaders are at different points in the journey: - can I do it?\n\ncan I sustain it?\n\ncan I take it across the finish line?\n\nhumility is the highest value at the Summit\n\nThe Intangibles of Leadership\n\nBook: The Intangibles of Leadership (Richard Davis)\n\n5 aspects of leadership\n\n(1) Grit - “passion and perseverance over the long haul”\n\nunrelenting steely determination over decades\n\n“gritty people play hurt”\n\ngritty people believe they can overcome any obstacle that comes there way\n\nBook: The Little Engine that Could “I think I can. I think I can. I think I can.” & “I thought I could. I thought I could. I thought I could.”\n\nAbraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr.\n\nDo you have grit? www.willowcreek.com/Survey for grit assessment\n\nCan grit be developed? Yes - “The arch enemy of grit is ease”\n\n“Grit development demands difficulty.”\n\nGrit grows every time you prove to yourself that you can overcome an obstacle.\n\n“Will yourself to task achievement.”\n\nElite leaders know that overcoming physical challenges builds grit.\n\nOver-deliver when asked to do something by supervisor\n\nWhen senior leaders demonstrate grit teammates and followers notice and develop more grit in themselves.\n\n“Gritty organizations are unstoppable.”\n\n(2) Self-Awareness - leaders have things that happened in the past that impact what they do in the present (tethered to something in the past)\n\nmesses in an organization are often connected to low self-awareness\n\nblind spots in leaders - “something someone believes they do well but everyone on the team knows it isn’t true.”\n\nmost leaders have 3–4 blind spots\n\nthe danger is that you have no idea the blind spot exists\n\nonce you know a blind spot you can move it into the weakness category for work\n\nthe people around you can help you identify them…especially direct supervisor or spouse\n\noften requires conversations with co-workers, counselor, or coach\n\n“Everybody will win when you grow in self-awareness.”\n\n(3) Resourcefullness - ability to learn\n\nin the face of difficult problems, people with high learning agility roll up their sleeves and figure out to do\n\nthe Wright Brothers are an example…they figured it out\n\n“Resourceful people figure it out.”\n\nResourcefulness can be developed - need to put yourself in confusing and dysfunctional situations to grow it\n\norganizations need resourceful people\n\n(4) Self-Sacrificing Love - story of David and his troops (I Samuel 22:2) and the water they got for him (2 Samuel 23:17)\n\n“Self-sacrificing love is at the very core of leadership.”\n\nI Corinthians 13:8 “Love never fails.”\n\n“Love changes people.”\n\nLove turns a rag-tag group of people into a family\n\nwe live in a day where many leaders are narcassistic\n\nthe senior leader must demonstrate self-sacrificing love\n\norganizations perform better when supervisors truly love those they supervise\n\ndon’t hesitate a moment to show love to teammates…get personal\n\n(5) Create a Sense of Meaning - almost everyone understands the “What” and “How” of the organization. Many don’t know the “Why”\n\nleaders in tomorrows world must share the why of the organization\n\n“What is your white hot why?”\n\nYour “why” will fuel you or will need to be changed to something that will fuel you\n\nEphesians 2:8–9\n\nthe message of what Christ does transformed Bill’s life and became his “white hot why” of “Transformed Lives”\n\nfind out your “white hot why”…life is too short to live without one\n\nOriginally published on stephen.braunius.org","date_published":"2015-08-06T16:00:00.000Z","date_modified":"2026-10-28T20:32:47.340Z","_microfeed":{"slug":"gls15-session-1-bill-hybels","authors":[{"name":"Stephen Braunius","type":"Person"}],"web_url":"https://stephen.braunius.org/i/gls15-session-1-bill-hybels/","json_url":"https://stephen.braunius.org/i/0OfsCvp-kF7/json/","rss_url":"https://stephen.braunius.org/i/0OfsCvp-kF7/rss/","guid":"http://stephen.braunius.org/gls15-session-1-bill-hybels/","status":"published","date_published_short":"Thu Aug 06 2015","date_published_ms":1438876800000}}],"_microfeed":{"publisher":{"name":"Stephen Braunius","type":"Person","url":"https://stephen.braunius.org"},"authors":[{"name":"Stephen Braunius","type":"Person"}],"microfeed_version":"1.0.13","base_url":"https://stephen.braunius.org","categories":[],"subscribe_methods":[{"name":"RSS","type":"rss","url":"https://stephen.braunius.org/rss/","image":"https://stephen.braunius.org/assets/brands/subscribe/rss.png","enabled":true,"editable":false,"id":"3ruTYsoZVaf"},{"name":"JSON","type":"json","url":"https://stephen.braunius.org/json/","image":"https://stephen.braunius.org/assets/brands/subscribe/json.png","enabled":true,"editable":false,"id":"5nhVQKje4_K"}],"description_text":"Seek | Do | Share\nI have always loved to learn new things and put that knowledge to use. 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