Every year, my team and I attend the leadership summit. 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 second session featured an interview Strive Masiyiwa, who is the founder of Econet (one of Africa’s largest telecommunications companies), will help us learn what it means to be a leader who perseveres to fight for the future of our world. This was an inspiring interview.

The following are some takeaways:

1. Too many people think they run into failure that they’re done.
2. Vision is what we hold onto.
3. If we’re doing what God is calling us to, we are not losing anything.
4. Cultures matter when we grow a business or organization.
5. Multiculturalism begins with the way we think and thinking differently.
6. Values are universal. Just because you have differences doesn’t mean you can’t embrace and work together across cultures and differences.
7. You haven’t been to a country until you have been in the home of someone who lives there.
8. If your business or vision solves a problem, people will seek it out.
9. If you want to be a success, find a human need and reach out and solve it.
10. Meeting a need changes the way people see themselves and changes the way they live.
11. We’re raising kids to not only think for themselves but think for us as parents.
12. You can mentor all you want but if you don’t model it, I won’t see.
13. A dream often dies when it is shared with people who have not seen what you see.
14. Building anything always takes longer than you think.
15. A great vision is only as good as your ability to deliver daily wins.
16. Consistency is the bridge to each short-term win that finally leads to the great vision.
17. If you know how to do things you will always have a job. If you know why you, you will always be the leader.
18. Your people must believe in you.
19. The best of our people are volunteers, whether we pay them or not.
20. If you want to know who someone is, watch how they treat people they don’t need.