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WINNERS DREAM
This presentation consists of highlights from the interview with Moe Abdou,
founder & host of 33voices®.
Bill McDermott is the CEO of SAP, the world’s largest business soft-ware company. Before joining SAP in 2002, McDermott served as
executive vice president of Worldwide Sales and Operations at Siebel Systems and president of Gartner, Inc., where he led the company’s core operations. He spent seventeen years at Xerox Corporation,
where he rose from a sales professional to become the company’s youngest corporate officer and division president.
Bill McDermott@BillRMcDermott
CEO of SAP
Optimism is a state of mind; it’s built on the belief that you have the potential to achieve anything that your mind conceives.
“Some people see things as they are and say, ‘why?’ I dream things that
never were and say, ‘why not?’- Robert F. Kennedy
Insight #1
Insight #2
Admired leaders have a mission that’s enduring, a cause that’s infectious, and a strategy that anticipates a bigger future.
“The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity, and execute with vigor; to
sketch out a map of possibilities; and then to treat them as probabilities.”
- Christian Bovee
Insight #3
Trust is the ultimate human currency. The best way to earn it is to be the best
version of yourself, always.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what
you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
-John Wooden
Insight #4
An inspired manager celebrates the individuality in others - for it’s her bold
vision that ignites confidence, unleashes talent, teaches new skills; all while
shaping a collaborative force.
“Leadership is the art of developing followership.”
- Barry Rand
Insight #5
Next time you’re called to turnaround a faltering unit, get personal:
Insight #5
Next time you’re called to turnaround a faltering unit, get personal:
Find out what they want
Insight #5
Next time you’re called to turnaround a faltering unit, get personal:
Paint of a picture of success
Insight #5
Next time you’re called to turnaround a faltering unit, get personal:
Elevate the power of pageantry
Insight #6
It’s a sign of strength when an executive publicly puts her family
first, for she understands that her greatest accomplishment will forever be that family.
“I’ve learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life.”
- Maya Angelou
Insight #7
Execution trumps everything. The audacity of any dream must be paired with
the micromanagement of reality. Preparation, diligence, follow-through, hard work. A plan.
“Fortune favors the bold.”- Virgil
Insight #8
When hiring managers, choose to hire the hungry and humble, for they’re not interested
in reporting the news, rather creating it.
“The secret to change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old,
but on building the new. .”- Dan Millman
Insight #9
The shift from startup founder to enterprise leader requires empathy and a relentless
commitment to develop the next generation.
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and
become more, you are a leader.”- John Quincy Adams
Insight #10
“Winners always dream, for they know that ‘the cause endures, the hope still lives,
and the dream shall never die.’ - Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy
What’s the biggest dream that you have for yourself?
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Presentation created by Chase Jennings
Insights by Moe Abdou