Ian Philpot

This I Believe: People Want to Follow Causes

After writing People Want to Follow People, I kept having this nagging sensation that I had left something important unexplained (or under-explained). And it didn’t take long before I recognized it. People want to follow causes. Think about It As I mentioned in...

This I Believe: People Want to Follow People

For a while now, I’ve been stuck with an idea: People don’t want to follow organizations. People want to follow people. I don’t expect that statement to be surprising, but it’s not something we really think about. Think about It What is more...

Global Leadership Summit 2013: Day 2

Let me start off by saying that the first day of the Global Leadership Summit was so powerful that it’s taken me three days to recover enough to write a recap of Day 2. Vijay Govindarajan was the second speaker on Day 2, and one of the questions he asked early...

Global Leadership Summit 2013: Day 1

The first day of the Global Leadership Summit was awesome, and I’m already thinking of ways to apply it to my life. Liz Wiseman stands out the most in my mind. Her talk was on multipliers—leaders who bring out the best in their teams. She had one quote that was...

Summit Week

I’ve been attending the Willow Creek Association’s Global Leadership Summit (aka the Summit) since 2008, and it has consistently given me inspiration beyond what I could’ve hoped for. And it’s always been more than I can handle. My first year...