Every year, my team and I attend the leadership summit and it is always refreshing, challenging and recharging for me. Easily the best leadership material in a conference that is out there. I try to share some of the highlights I took from each session.

Here are some thoughts from the session with Craig Groeschel:

• Everyone has influence.
• How you lead others matters more than you can possibly imagine.
• The assumption leaders make is that better costs more. We assume that investing more will bring a better return. Investing more over time often brings a diminishing return.
• More does not always mean better.
• The key is to look for the greatest level of return based on time, money and resources invested.
• GETMO stands for good enough to move on.
• Perfection is often the enemy of progress.
• Excellence will motivate you but also limit you if you aren’t careful.
• If we spend more on something, we aren’t necessarily making it better, we are making a trade.
• Better is a higher or equal return.
• Leaders bend the curve (BTC).
• Leaders think inside the box. 
• Limited options, constraints drive creativity. Constraints eliminate options.
• In your organization, where is there tension? Where do you have a rub that you need to let the constraints drive the ideas?
• You have everything you need to do everything you are called to do.
• If you have everything you wanted, you might miss what you really needed.
• Leaders burn the ships.
• You need to figure out what you need to do to step out of your doubts and into your calling.
• You are one step away from what you are supposed to accomplish.