104 - Leveraging Hospitality as a Leadership Principle with Terry Smith

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