Helping to Position Leaders and Organizations for Greater Global Impact
Russ Cline, Creator of Leader Mundial, Managing Partner of the Orange County Barnabas Group and Co-Founder of Extreme Response International is certified with the Paterson Center as a LifePlan and StratOp Facilitator and speaks, writes, trains, and consults on global and non-profit leadership issues.
upcoming
Our 2024 Leader Mundial Global Summit has been scheduled for April 19th - 24th, at Cohutta Springs, Georgia. We are looking for Global Leaders and Coaches to join us! If you are interested in learning more about this Global Summit, contact Russ
We also will host Leadership Summits in South Africa, Ecuador and the Philippines in October of this year. Contact me if you’d like more information.
The Orange County Barnabas Group
If you’re interested in learning more about what the Orange County Barnabas Group is all about, I invite you to come as my guest to our February 8th, 2024 Quarterly Summit. Contact me HERE if you’d like more information.
Lifeplan
Looking for guidance on how to live a life of purpose, passion, and impact? I can help you with a LifePlan!
LEADERSHIP QUOTE:
"You'll do great things if you don't care who gets the credit". *Russ Cline
A LITTLE BIT DEEPER:
Well, I had a birthday milestone this month and turned 60 years old. I don't think it's that traumatic, however being whisked away to a beach in Mexico by my wife for a few days helped a lot!
60 Years.
This month, I want to share some things that I've learned over the years by sharing some interpretations of some great quotes. I realize that nothing is really new, we just share ideas in new and fresh ways and it cycles around again and again. There is still much to learn from these ideas that have been around for a long time, so I'm going to share my top 4 quotes/ideas that I keep coming back to over and over again.
The first time I heard this quote, it was attributed to Ted Engstrom, then the President of World Vision. I then learned that many great people have said the same thing...Harry S. Truman, Ronald Reagan, Mark Twain and the list goes on. Maybe that's the point: It doesn't matter who said it, but we should focus on the power of these words.
I also saw this idea being lived out around me:
Jim Burns, a lifelong mentor of mine, was incredibly generous with his time and his training materials. I heard him say over and over again how his goal was for the materials he had developed to be used, and he generously gave away printing and royalty rights, and encouraged people to copy and get these resources out to the people who needed them. This is counter-cultural, but it left an imprint.
Ron Cline, my dad, led an initiative to partner with some "competing organizations" to accomplish something greater together. I'm not sure I understood the magnitude at the time. I probably assumed this is what everyone was doing, later to find out that this was not normal.
Phyl Burger, a friend and consultant that I used years ago with our growing organization modeled how to come alongside a group of people for the "importance of the work", not for the benefit you could get out of it. She gave of her time and energy generously when it probably didn't make any sense to her, but the impact on my life personally and on the organization then is unmeasurable.
So instead of trying to figure out who SAID IT, let's celebrate those who DO THIS!
I want to be one of those people that doesn't care as much about the credit as I do the value of the work and the potential impact. What about you?
Who in your life has modeled the concept of this quote: selfless generosity?