now I know that there are people infinitely and indescribably more dangerous than I am and I am getting better and better and better and better and more humble and more humble and more humble and I took that lesson into my leadership at the church and I [Music] apologized hey welcome to another episode of the Craig Russia leadership podcast if you’re new with us we drop a brand new teaching on the first Thursday of every month month and if you’re not receiving the leader guide yet let me just beg with you and plead with you you

need to get the leader guide it’s full of additional information uh content and application questions for you to cover with your team just go to life. church leadership podcast and we’ll send you the leader guide free with each episode now let me tell you what we’re going to do today I’m going to share with you a talk that I did a few years ago at the Global Leadership Summit if you don’t know about the Global Leadership Summit this is a Global Leadership event probably the biggest leadership event in the world uh this year the event is

going to be on August the 8th and 9th broadcast out of Chicago to over 500 sites around the US I’ll be doing the opening talk again this year today I’m sharing an opening talk I did from a few years ago if you want to grow in your leadership this is not a paid ad this is just because I love the event uh we’ll actually put a link in our leader guide that will give you a discount you can go to Global leadership.

org and find out information about the event this talk I did talks about leaders that have it what is it well sometimes you’ll meet a leader that’s so gifted you’re like going man like she just seems to have it or he just seems to have it and you kind of wonder what is it that they have well it is often a reflection of what I’d call paradoxical qualities in great leaders you’ll often find that great leaders have two seemingly contradictory qualities that together can create something unusually special I’m excited to share with you uh the majority of