The world needs a new kind of leader. Reset.
Our shifting, uneven, changing world is crafting a new kind of leader. We are all witness to it, but it’s too new to fully understand. That’s why we’re here. Our ideas of leadership are being reset.
Big is now small. Critical mass used to be important, now it’s about having a tribe. Propaganda was what we became very accustomed to hearing before, but now we need an authentic story. It’s an about-face in long standing ideas of what the world needs from people like you and I. We need a new kind of leader. Let’s reset.
Blake Mycoskie · TOMS Shoes · One for One
With these complex issues like malnutrition, poverty, an economic recession, divorce rates, bankruptcies, crime rates… We tend to look at them and search for a solution that’s equally large. We look for a 36 inch peg to fill a 36 inch hole. But that’s not really how change has to occur, is it?
Big used to be it—big companies, larger than life celebrities, and main stream music. Now small is helping us reinvent.
The TOMS Shoes ONE for ONE movement was started in an apartment in Southern California with friends and family. The goal—sell a meager 250 pairs of shoes and give 250. They sold 10,000… Now they’re recognized around the world. Do you have your pair yet?
Jessica Flannery · Kiva.org · Loans that Change Lives
Critical mass used to matter. Leaders couldn’t create a movement or a successful product launch without critical mass. You needed an average product or idea made for average people and you needed enough money to convince those people to join you. It doesn’t work that way anymore. Leaders can no longer convince or force people to follow them, no matter how much money or power they have. This new kind of leader understands that tribes are what can change the world.
A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. Every tribe is yearning for leadership and connection. This is your opportunity. Because the question isn’t, Is it possible for me to do that? Now the question is, Will you choose to do it?
Kiva.org has a remarkable reputation as an online/on-ground micro-lending platform. Almost $120 million has been lent through the site with over a 98% repayment rate to date. You know what it’s like to be shopping for a loan... Now you have the chance to make a difference by providing one.
Jamie Tworkowski · TWLOHA · Rescue is Possible
As children we were naturally good at telling stories about events or topics that mattered and learning from others via their stories, but as we became older we were taught that serious people rely only on presenting information and "the facts." Leading today is more than just facts—it’s about being a good storyteller. Often it is not the person with the best story, but the person who can tell the most compelling story who wins the audience.
Are you passionate about something? Do you have a story? Have patience. Be determined. Find your platform and shout from it as loud as you can.
To Write Love on Her Arms is a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire, and also to invest directly into treatment and recovery.
"We often ask God to show up. We pray prayers of rescue. Perhaps God would ask us to be that rescue, to be His body, to move for things that matter. He is not invisible when we come alive. I might be simple but more and more, I believe God works in love, speaks in love, is revealed in our love. I have seen that this week and honestly, it has been simple: Take a broken girl, treat her like a famous princess, give her the best seats in the house. Buy her coffee and cigarettes for the coming down, books and bathroom things for the days ahead. Tell her something true when all she's known are lies. Tell her God loves her. Tell her about forgiveness, the possibility of freedom, tell her she was made to dance in white dresses. All these things are true.”
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How it all started...
It all started with an idea. Before we knew it, this idea grew into a Center-wide assembly line! Watch the process of how our team made a giant Rubik's Cube that served as a prop for Leadership Week chapel.