Crafting a Lasting Legacy Through Intentional Leadership
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"Legacy is what people will associate with you or your name. Ultimately, a legacy is what we leave behind, which means no matter what stage of life you're in or what stage of leadership you're in, you're actually building your legacy whether you realize it or not or whether you're intentional or not." [00:00:51]
"I think part of legacy is understanding that the run you're on doesn't have to be the run you continue. Because I think there in my life, there have been several times where I've had to say, okay, I have to make a trade off here if I want to go any further." [00:07:36]
"I think that legacy, when you think of it being long-term and lasting, which is very true, I think legacy is also very creative and willing to let go of maybe what's familiar or comfortable and jump the fence, jump the fence and start something brand new." [00:08:36]
"Nobody's going to remember my buildings or my church or my sermons. I mean, nobody's going to remember that stuff anyway, and they're going to take our names off stuff. So anyway, just go deep on that for a minute." [00:12:29]
"Have legs for your legacy. And when he said legs, he said, I'm talking about people. You want people movers. People movers with your vision, people movers with your values. And he said, it only can be done through people." [00:13:02]
"When you're really a legacy leader, you become very replaceable. It doesn't bother me to hand off it to somebody. In fact, everything I get, I almost ask myself, how quickly can I give it to somebody else to run?" [00:14:22]
"Whatever we clinging to diminishes, whatever we give away, multiplies, whatever we cling to diminishes whatever we give away multiplies. And you've done this, but going back to the Jack Welch talk specifically to the leader who is in that building phase." [00:18:27]
"We will be remembered more for our final moments than our finest moments. And they had those finest moments professionally, but relationally at the end when those names come to mind, unfortunately those are the things we think about." [00:19:21]
"It is kind of like who mentors you is as important as what they say. And you and I have had a lot of wonderful mentors that have helped us greatly. And when I look back at these great mentors, they gave me some wonderful wisdom on how to do well in leadership." [00:20:28]
"When character is missing in a leader's life, they won't be led well, they'll be manipulated. Manipulation is always wrong. There's never one time that manipulation is wrong because when I manipulate somebody, I move them for personal gain and advantage." [00:23:50]
"Consistency really compounds at 77. I see it so clearly at 27 I didn't. But at 77, I just see that because I stayed on a leadership path and I tried to learn and grow in that leadership path, I wasn't as bad as people thought I was in the beginning." [00:29:05]
"When people get old, they don't get old because of age. They get old because they stopped. They stopped being curious, they stopped being hungry, they stopped doing new things. And I watched that, and I've seen that in people's lives. And I've said to myself, I don't want that." [00:33:00]
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"I think part of legacy is understanding that the run you're on doesn't have to be the run you continue. Because I think there in my life, there have been several times where I've had to say, okay, I have to make a trade off here if I want to go any further." [00:07:36]
"I think that legacy, when you think of it being long-term and lasting, which is very true, I think legacy is also very creative and willing to let go of maybe what's familiar or comfortable and jump the fence, jump the fence and start something brand new." [00:08:36]
"Nobody's going to remember my buildings or my church or my sermons. I mean, nobody's going to remember that stuff anyway, and they're going to take our names off stuff. So anyway, just go deep on that for a minute." [00:12:29]
"Have legs for your legacy. And when he said legs, he said, I'm talking about people. You want people movers. People movers with your vision, people movers with your values. And he said, it only can be done through people." [00:13:02]
"When you're really a legacy leader, you become very replaceable. It doesn't bother me to hand off it to somebody. In fact, everything I get, I almost ask myself, how quickly can I give it to somebody else to run?" [00:14:22]
"Whatever we clinging to diminishes, whatever we give away, multiplies, whatever we cling to diminishes whatever we give away multiplies. And you've done this, but going back to the Jack Welch talk specifically to the leader who is in that building phase." [00:18:27]
"We will be remembered more for our final moments than our finest moments. And they had those finest moments professionally, but relationally at the end when those names come to mind, unfortunately those are the things we think about." [00:19:21]
"It is kind of like who mentors you is as important as what they say. And you and I have had a lot of wonderful mentors that have helped us greatly. And when I look back at these great mentors, they gave me some wonderful wisdom on how to do well in leadership." [00:20:28]
"When character is missing in a leader's life, they won't be led well, they'll be manipulated. Manipulation is always wrong. There's never one time that manipulation is wrong because when I manipulate somebody, I move them for personal gain and advantage." [00:23:50]
"Consistency really compounds at 77. I see it so clearly at 27 I didn't. But at 77, I just see that because I stayed on a leadership path and I tried to learn and grow in that leadership path, I wasn't as bad as people thought I was in the beginning." [00:29:05]
"When people get old, they don't get old because of age. They get old because they stopped. They stopped being curious, they stopped being hungry, they stopped doing new things. And I watched that, and I've seen that in people's lives. And I've said to myself, I don't want that." [00:33:00]
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