Terry Smith has served as lead pastor of The Life Christian Church for twenty-six years. TLCC is a non-denominational faith community in West Orange, NJ, serving the New York City metro area. He is passionate about challenging, developing, and encouraging leaders, whether they know they are leaders or not. And, he is the author of the new book The Hospitable Leader: Create Environments Where People and Dreams Flourish.
Top Takeaways: Leveraging Hospitality as a Leadership Principle with Terry Smith
- Better life seekers
- Our diversity attracts leaders
- What is it like to have your book endorsed by Jack & Suzy Welch?
- If I took the best books in leadership and the best books on hospitality, Terry’s book would be the offspring
- We can create situations for good and great things to happen
- We have the superpower as leaders to create environments of welcome
- Everyone experiences season that are inhospitable, we control how long they stay
- Hospitable leadership is a worldview, a philosophical landscape
- The world has changed in business so much in the last 30 years, we now talk about these topics.
- People are talking about soft leadership skills more today because it has been proven to work
- It is easier to influence people who “have been welcomed to the table”
- Home is where the heart is warm, leaders have permission to lead
- Rarely does a dictatorial or authoritarian leadership style prove to be sustainable and productive
- Leaders of the past tell, leaders of the future ask
- Hospitable leaders are intentional about invite people who haven’t been invited before
- Environment of welcome, where people are open to being led
- I make it a practice to always be reading a biography or autobiography of a great person
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Learning From Leaders:
Current Book:
Current Book: Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts
Prayer – 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart’s True Home by Richard J. Foster
The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact by Chip & Dan Heath
Leadership Superpower: Warming people’s hearts
Motivational Mantra:
Possibility is a hint from God
Søren Kierkegaard
Book Most Often Gifted:
Book most often gifted: Winning: The Ultimate Business How-To Book by Jack & Suzy Welch
Additional Items Mentioned
The Hospitable Leader: Create Environments Where People and Dreams Flourish by Terry A. Smith
