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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