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The Impetus To Lead:

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The Basic Premise.

1. Leadership Is a … Mutual

Discovery Process.

“Ninety percent of what we

call ‘management’ consists

of making it difficult for people

to get things done.” – Peter Drucker

Organizing Genius / Warren Bennis and Patricia Ward Biederman

“Groups become great only when everyone in them, leaders and members alike, is free to do

his or her absolute best.”

The Leadership

Types.

2. Great Leaders on Snorting

Steeds Are Important – but Great Talent Developers

(Type I Leadership) are the Bedrock of Organizations that

Perform Over the Long Haul.

3. But Then Again, There Are Times When This

“Cult of Personality” (Type II Leadership) Stuff

Actually Works!

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”

Napoleon

4. Find the “Businesspeople”!

(Type III Leadership)

I.P.M. (Inspired Profit Mechanic)

5. All Organizations Need the Golden

Leadership Triangle.

The Golden Leadership Triangle: (1) Talent

Fanatic … (2) Creator-Visionary … (3) Inspired

Profit Mechanic.

The Leadership

Dance.

6. Leaders

DO!

7. Leaders

Re-do.

“If Microsoft is good at anything, it’s avoiding the trap of worrying about criticism. Microsoft fails constantly. They’re eviscerated in public

for lousy products. Yet they persist, through version after version, until they

get something good enough. Then they leverage the power they’ve gained in other

markets to enforce their standard.”

Seth Godin, Zooming

8. Leaders … LOVE the MESS!

“I’m not comfortable unless I’m uncomfortable.”

—Jay Chiat

9. Leaders Are …

Optimists.

10. Leaders FOCUS!

“To Don’t ” List

“I used to have a rule for myself that at any point in time I wanted to have in mind — as it so happens, also in

writing, on a little card I carried around with me — the three big things I was trying to get done.

Three. Not two. Not four. Not five. Not ten. Three.”

— Richard Haass, The Power to Persuade

You = Your Calendar (Period.)

Calendars do not lie. (Period.)

11. Leaders …

Send V-E-R-Y Clear Signals!

If It Ain’t Broke … Break It.

12. Leaders … FORGET!/

Leaders … DESTROY!

Forget>“Learn”

“The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get the old ones out.”

Dee Hock

13. BUT … Leaders Have to Deliver, So They Worry About “Throwing the Baby Out with the

Bathwater.”

“Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t, Just Plain

Damned.”Subtitle in the chapter, “Own Up to the Great Paradox: Success

Is the Product of Deep Grooves/ Deep Grooves Destroy Adaptivity,” Liberation Management (1992)

14. Leaders Make [Lotsof] Mistakes – and MAKE NO BONES

ABOUT IT!

Fail. Forward. Fast.

15. Leaders Make …

BIG MISTAKES! (HINT: not by avoiding small ones)

16. Leaders … Make Their Mark /

Leaders … Do Stuff That Matters

Create a ‘cause,’ not a ‘business.’

“I never, ever thought of myself as a businessman. I was

interested in creating things I would be

proud of.” —Richard Branson

17. Leaders … Have a GREAT

STORY!

“A key – perhaps the key – to leadership is

the effective communication of a story.”

Howard Gardner

Leading Minds: An Anatomy of Leadership

Leaders don’t just make products and make decisions.

Leaders make meaning. – John Seely Brown

Talent.

18. When It Comes to

TALENT … Leaders Never Compromise!

19. Leaders Don’t Create “Followers”: THEY CREATE

LEADERS!

20. Leaders Give …

RESPECT!

Passion.

21. Leaders … Openly Display Their PASSION!

“Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.”

—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

22. Leaders Are … in a Hurry

“If things seem under control, you’re just not going fast

enough.”—Mario Andretti

The “Job” of Leading.

23. Leaders Know It’s ALL SALES ALL THE

TIME.

If you don’t LOVE SALES … find

another life. (Don’t pretend you’re a “leader.”)

24. Leadership Is an … Authentic Performance.

“You must be the change you wish to see

in the world.”

Gandhi

25. Leaders … Open the

Possibilities …

“Beware of the tyranny of making Small Changes

to Small Things. Rather, make Big Changes to Big Things.” —Roger

Enrico, former Chairman, PepsiCo

“You can’t behave in a calm, rational manner. You’ve got to be out there on the

lunatic fringe.” — Jack Welch