Leadership Summit (Curtis)

Richard Curtis is a prolific screenwriter, producer, and director for film and television, Richard Curtis has earned international renown for his award-winning comedic storytelling. His most personal project — eradicating poverty worldwide — is a story still in production.

A New Zealander by birth, Richard Curtis is best known as the Oscar-nominated screenwriter for the popular British romantic comedies Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill, as well as the Mr. Bean television series. His most recently broadcast film, HBO’s Emmy-winning The Girl in the Café, asked hard questions about Third-World debt and poverty in Africa. In addition to co-founding the Make Poverty History campaign and the Live 8 concerts, Curtis founded Comic Relief UK in 1985 to raise money for victims of famine in Ethiopia.

Bill Hybels did a forty-five minute interview with Richard to end day two. Here are a few notes from the conversation.

You cannot hire on reputation or past experience. One must be absolutely certain they are hiring the right person for the right role at the right time.

When things go wrong, you cannot panic too much. Leaders cannot get too emotional over failure/challenges/barriers. Along the way, leaders will always have to lead through mid-course corrections.

I am running out of battery life and I do not have access to a power outlet. I am calling it a note taking day.

{I will not be able to attend the final day of the Summit. I hate that. I really want to Bill's closing talk. I'll have to buy the DVD.}