Every year, my team and I attend the leadership summit. This year, there is a shadow hanging over the summit as I outlined here, but I’m still trusting that it will have some incredibly helpful content, just like in past years. To capture what I’m learning and to help you grow as a leader, I always share my notes from each session, so be sure to check back after each session and bookmark them for future use.
The first session of the second day featured a talk by Rasmus Ankersen. His talk focused on the mindset cultivated by successful brands to create sustainable success in our organizations.
The following are some takeaways:
- Your products reveal what your brand is like.
- Arrogance, complacency, and resistance to change can kill any company.
- Leaders must think through how to keep their companies fresh and away from complacency.
- One of the big problems for companies is outcome bias which is good results are always the result of superior decision making.
- Data never lies.
- The fewer goals in a game, the more randomness has an impact. That’s why the best team wins less often in soccer compared to basketball.
- Some data is more important than other data.
- When you are successful, you should always ask why you were successful.
- Never trust success blindly.
- Too many companies hesitate to change, they wait until they have a burning platform.
- When we become successful, comfort becomes more important than improvement.
- One of the most important jobs of a leader is convincing people they haven’t reached the top.
