Friday’s Favorite Tweets Of The Week

Posted: 17th May 2013 by Mark Cundiff in Leadership
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  • My Takeaways from the 2013 Chick-fil-A Leadercast http://ow.ly/kY8jM  via @MichaelHyatt
  • “Everyone has a tactical reserve to improve that little bit. You have one more inch.” – rorkedenver
  • “3 S’s for effective leadership: Self-confidence, simplicity and speed” @Jack_Welch
  • “As leaders, we owe it to every employee to let them know where they stand in the organization” @jack_welch
  • “Balance is essential for effectiveness. As a leader you must schedule time for rest.” - CondoleezzaRice
  • “The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.” - @CondoleezzaRice
  • “A leader is someone who puts their people in position to be successful all the time” -Mike Krzyzewski
  • “As a leader you can get sidetracked but you have to complete your mission” -Mike Krzyzewski
  • “A leader is like a quarterback – they get paid for putting the ball in the right hands.”
  • “Leadership is influence. Nothing more. Nothing less.” - @JohnCMaxwell
  • “It isn’t easy to be simple but it’s effective.” - @JohnCMaxwell
  • “Business schools reward complex behavior but it’s the simple behavior that makes you successful in life” - @JohnCMaxwell
  • “If everything is important then nothing is important.” - @DrHenryCloud
  • “Yesterday is gone. It’s time to do something new.” - @DrHenryCloud
  • “The worst thing you can do, once you realize you’re on the wrong road, is hope it turns into the right one.” - @DrHenryCloud
  • “The first boundary that a leader has to set is necessary endings. Pruning is required for growth” - @DrHenryCloud
  • “Creating the plan is the easy work. Getting people to effectively work the plan is the real work.” - @DrHenryCloud
  • “Since I was a young girl, I always set really lofty goals for myself.” - @SanyaRichiRoss
  • “There will always be distractions. Focus on your goals until you reach them.” -@SanyaRichiRoss
  • “Appropriate engagement is the master key.” -David Allen @gtdguy
  • “What is your one-sentence job description?” -@AndyStanley
  • “What are we doing? Why are we doing it? Where do I fit in?” - @andystanley
  • “Dirty little secret of leadership: Leaders don’t always have all the answers.” - @andystanley
  • “If there’s one thing our organizations need from us, it’s our leadership…Simply lead.” MichaelHyatt
  • “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.” Florence Nightingale
  • “Humility is a virtue; timidity is a disease.” Jim Rohn
  • “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”Bill Gates

Mark MillerMark Miller ‏@LeadersServe

  • “We run this company on questions, not answers.” @ericschmidt – CEO, Google

Inspirational Quote™Inspirational Quote™ ‏@InspirationalQ

  • Confidence is contagious and so is lack of confidence, and a customer will recognize both. -Vincent Lombardi

willmingtonwillmington ‏@willmington

  • Our story: Formed. Deformed. Transformed. Conformed.
  • When you are discouraged, encourage someone else
  •  The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only – and that is to support the ultimate career. #CSLewis

Kent JulianKent Julian ‏@KentJulian

  • Purpose may point you in the right direction but it’s passion that propels you. – Travis McAshan
  • Stop beating yourself up. You are a work in progress; which means you get there a little at a time, not all at once.

Mark SanbornMark Sanborn ‏@Mark_Sanborn

  • “If we’re the underdog, I like being the underdog. It heightens one’s focus.” John Doerr (of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers)

Jen McDonoughJen McDonough ‏@TheIronJen

  • Work for a cause, not for applause. Live your life to express, not to impress.
  • Purpose is the reason you journey. Passion is the fire that lights your way.
  • Hard work becomes easy when your work becomes your play. Never underestimate the value of loving what you do. – Unknown

48 Days Team48 Days Team ‏@48DaysTeam

  • The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be. Reid Hoffman, founder LinkedIN

Mitch MoyerMitch Moyer ‏@mitchm

  • “Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.” – Roger Crawford
  • Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter~ MLK
  • Over 500 kids adopted through #compassion inter this morning at @westridgechurch Happy Mother’s Day !

John OrtbergJohn Ortberg ‏@johnortberg

  • A sense of inadequacy is the constant companion of self-awareness Kevin Penry

Steve ScastaSteve Scasta ‏@SteveScasta

  • Sometimes you just need to sleep on it.

Michael LukaszewskiMichael Lukaszewski ‏@mlukaszewski

  • Decide today that your past is not your future.

Stevie FlockhartStevie Flockhart ‏@stevieflockhart

  • “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West

Rick WarrenRick Warren ‏@RickWarren

  • I missed 9000 shots in my career, lost almost 300 games.and missed the shot to win the game 26 times.” Michael Jordan
  • God always allows a major test before a major blessing. The greater he intends to bless, the bigger the test will be.
Starnes & AssociatesStarnes & Associates ‏@StarnesCoaching13 May

  • “If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.” – John Wooden

Scott CouchenourScott Couchenour ‏@SCouchenour

  • Don’t set rules. Set standards. Coach K
  • Focus on the relevant. Eliminate the rest. Dr Henry Cloud
  • The more complex things get the more simplicity is needed. @AndyStanley
  • Look for teaching moments every day. Jack Welch

AndyStanleyAndyStanley ‏@AndyStanley

  • While our past explains us, it doesn’t excuse us.

Diva PhoenyxDiva Phoenyx ‏@DivaPhoenyx

  • Lack of transparency is the cruelest form of management. — Jack Welch
  • “Growth creates complexity. Complexity is unavoidable and complexity is the enemy of clarity.” — @AndyStanley
  • “Something is coming for you that you do not see – are you ready for that?” — David Allen (@gtdguy)
  • You are the most creative person when you have freedom to make a mess — David Allen(@gtdguy)
  • “The way out (of storms in your mind) is through.”– David Allen (@gtdguy)

Condoleezza RIce: Chick-fil-A Leadercast 2013

Posted: 16th May 2013 by Mark Cundiff in Leadership
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Condoleezza Rice

Secretary of State (2005-2009)Exclusive Simply Lead video interview with John C. Maxwell 

  • When dealing with complexity make sure you are recognizing the simple things you can do to make things better. Ask the question: What can I do to change the direction and/or  focus in order to simplify the complex situation I am in.

When you are in complexity you only see complexity, the key is to see simplicity in the midst of the complexity.

  • What is the first thing we can do to get headed in the right direction, right path?

Keys To Leading Through Complexity

1. Being right with God, have a centeredness to your life and purpose that keeps you grounded.

2. Even under even the most difficult circumstances you have to be an optimist.

3. Be able to motivate people towards a common goal.

Take a look back in time and recall something that was in past and it looked impossible at that moment in time but that you overcame it. Use such stories to inspire your people. You have to share success stories. You are there helping people see that out of difficult circumstances that you have traveled through in the past and achieved success in that they can again be successful. You use this as a Spring Board to move team through the current complex circumstances.

Her Relationship With The President

  1. I always recognized The President was The President and not me.
  2. I had to always remember that I could not to or say anything publicly that would embarrass or undermine The President.
  3. When the plane flew into the Pentagon I told President Bush to stay right where he was.

How do you have your act together in a world that doesn’t have it act together?

1. Having The Right Team: You must spend lots of time building right team around you in order to be successful and have confidence that you can walk through the complex situations. You have to have people who will stay calm in the midst of complexity.

2. Confidence of Your Leader: When I was working for President Bush I knew I had the Confidence of President. You need to have your leader’s full support and confidence in your ability in order to stay calm in crisis and be the most effective.

3. Physical Condition: You must take time to take care of yourself physically: proper rest, diet and exercise.

4. Rest & Relaxation: She took Sunday afternoons off to: play piano, watch football, remember the importance of taking breaks, even in the midst of complexity

  • Balance: most important is to schedule it in, if you have busy life you have to make it part of schedule, have to be intentional or it gets pushed aside, not workaholic , enjoy other things in my life, friends, hobbies etc
  • Make sure you have time for the more contemplative side of life (thinking, spiritual life etc) You have to have time to stop and think.
  • What am I seeing? How am I going to attack it? Hear answers in a way where I can find an overlap during conflict, common ground to build a bridge to resolve the conflicts she faced in her job

Being a good communicator is really being a good teacher

  • You have to help people see the logic of how you got to where you are. You must start from the beginning and help them journey with you through the process and what you learned along the way. You can’t start at the end and expect them to understand how your arrived where you are. You must be a good teacher to be a good communicator.
  • Adding value to people: Go at and start by serving other, you can lead and make a difference anywhere, your community, your school board, boy scouts etc, you never know the difference you can make in the life on one child.

Make A Difference Where You Are!

  • Journey of person who wants to add value has a lot of surprises to it, we do things we never thought we would be doing along the way.
  • Put yourself in a position that serendipity might happen to you.

Mike Krzyzewski: Chick-fil-A Leadercast 2013

Posted: 14th May 2013 by Mark Cundiff in Leadership
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Coach K

 

 

 

 

 

Mike Krzyzewski

Head men’s basketball coach, Duke University and Team USA

  • One of the key things as a leader is to create to close associations with other leaders.
  • As a leader you can’t hold back, if you have something to say you need to say it.
  • You can get sidetracked, but you have to complete your mission.
  • You should try to get better everyday.
  • Being Coach of National Team took him out of his comfort zone

A leader is one who puts his team in a position to be successful all the time!

  • As a leader you need create a culture of success, Create an atmosphere where everybody is important, No job is too small that a leader is too big to do it.
  • As a leader you need to Empower team members don’t delegate to them.
  • The most important thing in leadership is communication.
  • As a leader you must set a standard for your team. Example: when we talk to each look each other in the eye, no headsets etc
  • Simple leadership, look each other in the eye when you communicate.
  • Always tell the truth! AT West Point we had The Honor Code, don’t lie cheat or steal.
  • If you have a team and you are wondering about whether your team members are being truthful you are not moving forward as you should because you are always looking back not sure if someone has your back or not.
  • Our standard is to tell the truth and accept that you are being told the truth.
  • What the truth does is that it always allows you take immediate action! You are not distracted or deterred by always trying to figure out what is actually going on, you can get down to business. Truth speeds up your effectiveness!

Trust: if you trust someone and they trust you 2 is better than 1, if you don’t have trust 2 is not better than 1!

  • The ability to develop trust is paramount with any team’s success.
  • I told the USA Team “Don’t leave your egos at the door, you is on the back of the jersey, we have to develop a collective ego as Team USA.”

Setting Standards vs. Having Rules: I told the team leaders  (Kobe, Lebron, Camello, Kidd) we are going to talk about how we are going to live together, our team is not going to have any rules, we are going to have standards.

  • If you have standards and you collectively own it you don’t need rules, you have to own the team as players.
  • By setting standards vs. establishing rules we never had a guy late or bad practice in 7 years as Coach of USA. These standards were set by the team, therefore owned by the team. Therefore they established how we lived as a team and we didn’t need any rules.

Being an outstanding leader is an everyday thing!

  1. Communicate
  2. Develop Trust
  3. Set Standards
  • Don’t focus on winning, focus on creating a culture of success!
  • Trust-if you don’t have it, 2 is worse than 1
  • Do I live up to the standards I hold others to?

Jack Welch: Chick-fil-A Leadercast 2013

Posted: 13th May 2013 by Mark Cundiff in Leadership
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Jack Welch


Former Chairman & CEO of General Electric

Dr. Henry Cloud interviews Jack Welch

Quotes from this interview:

  • At all times give them all you got.
  • Don’t dabble
  • Don’t lose your focus

How did you come to be the master of Necessary Endings during your career at GE?

Jack stated that you ask yourself the question: If you weren’t already in this business would you get in it today?

  • They drew 3 circles of the businesses they wanted to be in. Then told his team to Fix, sell or close any business outside these circles.
  • The reason people are unwilling to let go of their businesses is they want to grow their businesses. So it is counter intuitive to close it down. When you prune you get smaller and this is difficult for leader’s to do.
  • People always think it is a bad people thing to make these decisions,  but not always the case. Many times people end up in a much better situation than they are currently in.

Example: He once sold their AC to Trane and it worked out great for the people because they ended up in a place where they were wanted and cherished. He sold the business to Trane and it helped those people grow and excel.

Dr. Cloud asked: When you found yourself in a moment of conflict, did you have to grow into this ability to handle these situations?

  • What I have learned is that if are you are transparent you can lead through these issues and tough times.
  • You have no right to be called a manager if your employees don’t know where they stand with you.
  • I have found many people have trouble being transparent and candid with their people.

It is cruel and unfair not to be candid with your team members.

  • You have no right to do these things(shut down businesses, fire people etc.,) if you have not been upfront  and candid with your people.
  • You need to focus on the Personal Connection:

I love hanging around with people, if you don’t love people this jobs stinks.

  • Great Leaders Have The Generosity Gene: you will find it in every great leader. These leaders love to give raises, promotions , accolades etc.,

You have to implement the 3 Ss

  1. Self-confidence: It is imperative that you build this into your team members. You have to get this in your team member’s veins.
  2. Simplicity –once they have self-confidence you get simplicity, clarity, focus. Only self-confident people operate with simplicity.
  3. Speed-if you get speed you win the game. If you build self-confidence and keep it simple then you have speed.
  • If you hire self-confident people they will hire self-confident people and this will fuel your team to act with speed
  • Coaching/Teaching: Jack spent 70% of his time teaching. You have to build up your team. Develop them into the best team. The organization with the best team wins.
  • Use teachable moments to get the people in your organization performing the behaviors you want them to perform.
  • Many don’t see themselves as having time to teach, they have to run the business, but Jack sees this as key to success.
  • If you don’t have a great team working with great people then you won’t be successful.

3 Key Questions to Ask To Lead Successfully

  • Where?
  • Why?
  • How?
  • The Where & Why= Mission & Vision
  • How= Behaviors
  • How are the behaviors, what you want your people to do to get to the mission
  • I hate bureaucracy and the bureaucrats that practice it.

Don’t forget this about change: What’s in it for them? What will it mean to them?

  • Budget Review is really a personnel review with numbers.
  • You don’t want to see the charts & numbers, you want to see the people, you need to see what makes them tick, what’s their vision for the future.
  • 4 Categories of Performance that measure the Behaviors & Results

The 4 quadrants:

  • Quadrant 1: right behaviors & values/poor performance, you give them another chance
  • Quadrant 2: great results but wrong behaviors: This is the jerk in the organization delivering results but with all the wrong behaviors. These guys get kept despite their bad behaviors in many organizations. This is poison to the organizations that keep these jerks. It totally undermines all the values and behaviors you say that you truly believe in.
  • Quadrant 3: Poor Performance & Poor Behaviors=easy decision to get rid of these people
  • Quadrant 4: Great Results & Great Behaviors, do all you can to keep these people, they are the leaders and drivers of your organization, the future of the company.

Every personnel move one by one with determine how successful you are.

  • When you say something is important you put your best person on it, back up your speeches with your personnel actions. If don’t do this your people won’t believe your stated priorities. Every time you make a speech can you back it up with the right people in charge of those areas. Your actions speak louder than your words.
  • When you find someone on your team with your values do all you can to keep them around.

Dr. Henry Cloud ask: Tell us about fear? When would you experience fear?

  • Jack states that you must have Healthy Paranoia, skepticism and fear, but in the end you have to go for it! You can’t let fear stop you from moving forward.
  • Always remember that you are never as good or as bad as they say you are.
  • You must realize you will fail along the way and build that in to the equation. You must have the resiliency to get back up on the horse once you get knocked off.
  • You must have healthy skepticism.
  • Make your organization a place where people want to be.
  • Create an organization where you have self-confident people who love being there but are willing to leave. This is a healthy place to be. Good to have this tension in organization.
  • I often told people: Be happy to be here but be ready to leave. I wanted our managers to take care of our people and in most cases they would. I wanted them to feel that pressure and tension to deliver this expectation.
  • You have gotta love what you are doing.
  • You must over deliver for your boss: when your boss ask you to do something they already have something in mind, but you need to exceed that expectation, to teach them something they don’t already know. You need work to make your boss smarter.
  • Create a whole new education for the boss, show them something they didn’t know or think about yet.

If you make your boss smarter, then You become indispensable!

Sanya Richards-Ross: Chick-fil-A Leadercast 2013

Posted: 12th May 2013 by Mark Cundiff in Leadership
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Sanya Richards-Ross

 

 

 

 

 

Sanya Richards-Ross

2012 London Olympic gold medalist, track & field

Interview By Linda Cohn

What is on your mind during a race?

  • My mind is on executing.

In 2006 she was named Athlete of Year.

  • Before the Beijing Olympic Games she got diagnosed with an auto-immune disease. She went into the games a heavy favorite but she finished third winning a Bronze medal in these games. After being a
  • heavy favorite, it was extremely disappointing not to win gold, it was really difficult not to be at best on that particular day. She was really down after this performance and only
  • had one day before the 4×4 relay team would try to win gold. She had to put that prior disappointment behind her and focus on the moment. She was determined not to go home without a Gold. The team did win and brought home the Gold.

 This experience taught her focus in the midst of her personal chaos after losing thee Gold medal individually.

  • During the 2010 season she pulled quad that took her out for rest of the track season. This  was another set back that she had to overcome.  During
  • 2011 she had recovered physically but not mentally. She  finished 7th in worlds
  • 2012.  During 2011 she found out she had been misdiagnosed with Bechet disease, it was instead a treatable skin disease. She had to start on new medicine just before the London Games. She had to overcome the effects of the new medicine in order to compete for in the Olympics. She recalled coming off the 3rd turn and being behind in the race. She experienced a moment of self-doubt about being able to accomplish her dream of winning a Gold. She stated that she quickly changed her focus and this allowed her to overcome her fears and come from behind to win the Gold medal in London.

 

Lessons She Learned:

  • To Stay focused through adversity.
  • Keep eye on dream!
  • Need Strong Support System: She talked about the tremendous support from her Mom & Dad. She sees have a great support system as a key to her success.
  • When at the times that you find yourself losing focus, don’t allow yourself to do that.
  • There will always will be noise in market, negative thoughts, nay sayers etc, but you must keep focus on your goals, on where you are headed. Don’t let these distractions take you off course.
  • One her secrets is that she creates a vision board every year, put all goals on it, she looks at it every morning. 
  • Keep Narrow focus on goals
  • Focus on one thing, don’t multi-task
  • Be focused on the Victory, not all the distractions around you, not on what can go wrong.
  • Focus on Your Identity in Crisis

 

 

Henry Cloud: Chick-fil-A Leadercast 2013

Posted: 12th May 2013 by Mark Cundiff in Leadership
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Dr. Henry Cloud

Best-selling author and leadership consultant

  • If you keep telling yourself you are going to do something and you keep not doing over and over you are not going to do it. If this is the case then you then need to enlist some outside help to get it done.

#1 Boundary: A Necessary Ending: This is when the worse thing a person can have in a situation is hope.

  • There are seasons that have passed and a leader must have courage to step up and have a Necessary Ending to a situation, relationship, business etc.,

The Pruning Process: Gardening Experts prune roses in 3 different context:

1) Rose produces too much, you keep best, they need the resources of the vine, you then prune the rest. You sacrifice the good for the best.

2) You realize that some are sick and won’t get well and therefore must be pruned.

3) You realize that some are dead and are in way and need to be gotten rid of, so you prune them.

Applications Of Pruning To Your Business or Organization

1) You Have Too Much: The leader must get rid of those that are not the best.

Example: Cloud’s friend bought company of $25M that he has now grown to $1B company. How? When he bought the company he pruned 80% of the company even thought it was all making a profit. He fought through a lot of opposition and criticism to do this process of pruning. He knew that the  life of company was in that best 20% of company. The rest of the company was draining resources and focus away from the 20% of the company that would be the future life of the company. Even though it was all profitable he told the team to shed the other 80% and only keep the 20%. From this 20% he grew the company to $1B company it is now. He went thru lots of conflict to enact this but knew it was the best long-term decision.

Don’t sacrifice attaining the best by settling for keeping hold of the good. 

2) You Have Sick Branches: The leader must recognize that some branches are not going to get well.

  • As a leader you need to realize that something you are attached to will not change. It could be a person, business unit, product, market etc.,
  • You must realize that its season has passed, it is not going to get well, it takes leadership to make a Necessary Ending
  • Example: What’s a phone book? 12-year-old daughter asked him this question. He recently met a person who is still in phone book business. Sometimes you are holding onto to things whose time has passed.
  • Are you hanging onto something whose season has passed?
  • As a leader you have to take the hard step to pull plug>

Example: Why did it take GM being forced by bankruptcy judge to get them to shut down Pontiac who had not been profitable in years?

Emotional attachment can cause us to hang on to things whose season has passed.

  • Leaders must have the courage to exercise Necessary Endings to those things whose seasons have passed, who are sick and will not get better.
  • Leaders must have discernment to make these tough decisions.

Example: Cloud recounts story of an Exec firing his son. He puts on the boss hat to fire his own son for bad behaviors on the job that he could no longer tolerate. He then puts on Dad hat afterwards to console his son about losing his job. This type of activity is the best for all involved with the Necessary Ending.

3) Dead Things:If it is dead you must remove it.

Example:  Hoarders keep things they haven’t used it in 20 yrs because I might need it someday. Leaders often have a hoarder pattern in them with their businesses. Even though some part of the business is dead they emotionally hold on to the past, hold onto what used to be.

  • Leader’s Fear that they “Need To Be Source For Everything”. This is a deep sickness in life where experiences in life have taught them they have to be the source for everything. This results in them trying to hoard and hang on to things because of fear.
  • Leaders must have a funeral and let things go and move into the future, you must take team into the future arm in arm and leave the past behind.
  • You must determine not to settle for what is good but instead move ahead for what is best for you, your team and your organization.

You must determine what is good and not the best, what is sick and what is dead and have a Necessary Ending for these!

#2 Boundary: Focused Attention

  • It is a scientifically proven fact that your brain can only focus on one thing at a time.

Great leaders lead in a way that their people can actually follow them!

  • Why do some leaders get results and others don’t? Because they lead in ways team members can follow them.

Your Brain has to do 3 things:

1) Attend to what is relevant stimuli

2) Inhibit everything else, shut rest out

3) Create a working memory

  • Great leaders do these 3 things in a multiple ways.

Example: Steve Jobs comes back to Apple and there are 30 versions of Mac, he cuts it down to 4 types of computers

Find what is relevant and keep in front of them all the time and you will lead people well.

If everything is important nothing is important!

  • Your desire will not do when it comes to reaching goals. The key to your success is in what gets prioritized. It is what is put in front of people over and over.

Brains run on 3 things:

1)Oxygen

2) Glucose

3) Relationships

  • You have to have Relationships for your brains to work properly.

2 Questions You Must Ask:

  1. What’s it like for you?
  2. What’s it like for your clients?

Example: He led a company on Listening tour at 20 top markets during the economic downturn in order to try to help company get back on track and work through the down turn in the economy. As a result of this tour the CEO was bombarded with emails thanking him for taking time to talk to them about what is going on in their worlds. The personal interaction of this exercise was more important than any of the other solutions and strategies that resulted. The engagement of relationship was a game changer for this organization.

Power of The Buddy System

  • When things happen in a bad market the brain changes, things begin to shut down.
  • Stress level dropped in half for monkeys under stress when buddy was in the cage with them during the drawing of the blood.
  • Having buddy to go thru stress will help you cope in a good way, stress level will go down.
  • Having a Buddy System will help team members handle stressful situations in an effective manner.

 

  • Remember that opportunities will become threats when proper boundaries are not set.
  • Ask yourself: Where am I being a hoarder my business, personal  life, as a leader?
  • What products, meetings, and/or relationships in my organization need to have a Necessary Ending?

John Maxwell: Chick-fil-A Leadercast 2013

Posted: 11th May 2013 by Mark Cundiff in Leadership
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John Maxwell

 

 

 

 

 

John C. Maxwell

Best-selling author and leadership expert


Simply Lead

John Maxwell started this event with one location more than 10 years ago and today more than 120,000 people  in 750 locations world-wide.

  • Warren Buffet: “Business schools reward complex behavior, but it is the simple things that makes you successful in life.
  • An Educator takes something simple and makes it complicated, but a Communicator takes something complicated and makes it simple.
  • A Genius is someone who takes the complex and makes it simple.
  • Connectors do the work of keeping it simple
  • It is not easy to be simple but it is effective.
  • It is easy to be simplistic but not easy to be simple.
  • It is a process to make things simple.

Simplistic is shallow and fast, no depth to it, very easily understood, but very shallow.

The Process to Get To Simple

  • In every of you biz you have to go from simplistic to complex, complex is deep and slow.

Example: Take the statement: “Experience is the best teacher”

Is experience really the best teacher? Experience is not really the best teacher, many people are getting older but not getting better

  • Complexity requires questioning. Complexity tells us that simplicity is a half-truth.  After spending time in complexity then you will move to simple.

Simple=Deep & Fast

  • Deep & Fast is what you want in your leadership. You want to develop something that you can grab hold of and it is of value and depth to it.
  • Many used to say that Leadership=Position. I  learned this is not so, lots of people with positions have no leadership abilities at all. They do not perform well as a leader despite holding a position. Position does not equal Leadership.
  • Leadership=Influence

Leadership is Influence, nothing more, nothing less!

  • Take your business through the grid> Simplistic->Complex->Simple

Key Principle To Keep It Simple

Add Value To People Everyday!

  • If you really want to be an influencer add value people everyday
  • Everyone who has a positive influence with you is because they add value to you.
  • Intentionally add value to people every day
  • I ask the question at end of day: “Did I add value to someone today?”

Simple Math Formula for Expanding your Leadership by Expanding your Influence

  1. Subtract Landmines From Your leadership.
  • All of us has certain parts of our leadership that can destroy us, these are our land mines.

B.  Multiply Your Strengths By Developing Them

  • Your strengths are those things that you do well, those things  that you excel in & are most effective in doing. These are where you are the most productive and add the most value to your organization.
  • Make sure that you find your strengths for this is where you where you will have your greatest level of influence.

You don’t have influence in your areas of weaknesses

       C.  Divide your weaknesses by delegating them.

  • Great Leaders get paid to put the ball in the right hands. These leaders know how to maximize the effectiveness of their organizations by using all the strengths of their different team members while minimizing the impact of their weakness by delegating those duties to team members who are strong in those areas.
  • Learn to pass off your weaknesses to others on your team who have those as strengths.
  • Your people already know your weaknesses, share them with your team so that they know you know your weaknesses.

Our problem is that we keep trying to find a leader to solve our problems. The right answer is be the leader that solves the problem.

Andy Stanley: Chick-fil-A Leadercast 2013

Posted: 10th May 2013 by Mark Cundiff in Leadership
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 Andy Stanley

 Andy Stanley

Best-selling leadership author & communicator

Here are my summary notes from Andy Stanley’s talk at today’s Chick-fil-A Leadercast where over 120,000 people attended world-wide today to learn and grow together as leaders.

Simply Lead

As a leader I have to come to the point where I realize I am never the smartest person in the room!

  1. As a leader you must work to take complicated things and make them simple.
  • One thing that I have learned is that dumb people try things, the B & C students are more willing to fail.
  • B or C people surround themselves with people who are smarter than themselves

Jim Collins recently stated that Level 5 leaders have the humility to aspire to be the dumbest people in the room

  • Making leadership simple must be a priority for every leader.
  • If you are in a growing organization you will find yourself in a state of growing complexity.
  • You must realize that wherever there is growth there is complexity.
  • If you are a part of a family that grows over time you have noticed that the complexity grows with the addition of each new family members. When your family grows it gets more complex. Just imagine the complexity that parents with 6 kids experience. Just imagine the complexity getting shoes on all those kids.

2.  Complexity is the enemy of ____________?

  • Complexity is the enemy of everything! You can put anything in the blank.

Complexity is the enemy of clarity

  • Complexity Destroys clarity
  • In  Marcus Buckingham’s book, The One Thing You Need To Know, he makes the argument that clarity is most important thing in business today.
  • When complexity grows, clarity erodes. Complexity erodes your ability to move ball down the field.
  • Not matter how smart you are you need a way to keep things simple for you and your organization.
  • This is north star  to keep the leader oriented and focused on the right things.

3 Things to Make & Keep Things Simple

Ask these 3 Questions:

  1. What are we doing?
  2. Why are we doing it?
  3. Where do I fit in?

 

1. What are we doing?

    • Andy went to the Ritz Carlton school for maids, cooks, and bellman and learned these lessons:
  •         Every person for Ritz has a mission statement. “We are ladies and gentlemen serving ladies & gentlemen”( Ritz Purpose Statement)

         There is extraordinary power in knowing what we are doing! This brings clarity!

  •          This caused these people to rise to the occasion and meet the demands of the job.
  •          Everybody in org needs to know what I am doing
  •          If you don’t solve the issue of complexity in your organization the mist in your eyes will become fog in your eyes if you don’t have clarity in your organization.
  •          If you don’t know exactly what you are doing your will have difficulty doing it.

Steve Jobs return to Apple “We are going to make easy to use Computers” walked into complex industry at complex company and made it simple with this statement

  •        When things are going crazy you need to be able to retreat to the simple idea of “what are we doing?’
  •         The reason don’t have a simple answer to the question of what I am doing because you have not worked on it long enough and hard enough

2.  Why are we doing this?

  1. This is where the emotion resides,

Here is where your motivation resides!

  • What would happen in your community if your business or organization ceased to exist? What would happen to your world…? What void would be there if…..?
  • You need to realize once upon a time your company did not exist, it was only an idea, why did the founders start this business?
  • If you asked the founders these questions you would hear a compelling “why” you are doing what you are doing?
  • This answer to the “why” question needs to fight through the complexity of your organization and it needs to harness the hearts of the people who make up your organization.

If the people who report to you don’t know the answer to the “why” question then they are just employees.

3. Where Do I Fit In?

Once you answer the first two questions you need to determine your answer for you on the 3rd question. This is not your job description, this is irrelevant. Most people don’t know where this is a week after they have been on the job.

In light of what your organization is doing you must determine where do you fit in?

  • What is your critical role?
  • What is your unique contribution to the organization?
  • What is your core responsibility?
  • What is it that only you can do?

In your organization the answer to first two questions should be the same for everybody in the organization.

  • Answering the last question, you create for yourself and direct reports a one sentence job description.
  • Why should you do this? Because this is simple and it provides clarity.
  • If you don’t do this your team will do whatever comes next, not necessarily what you want or need them to do.
  • This takes a lot of time and is hard work.

Some Examples:

  • Andy’s: “inspire our staff and congregation to remain fully engaged in our mission and strategy”
  • Andy’s CFO: “to create  implement, and monitor systems that ensure our org remains fiscally secure.”
  • Andy’s Admin Assit. “Keep Andy’s path clear of nonessential tasks and decisions so that he can do what only he can do.”

This statement is what you run to in case of emergency in your organization and you break the glass and push that button, this is your guiding force for deciding what is the most important thing, core thing that you do day in and day out. 

Every leader needs a place to retreat to, a place to recalibrate, recenter, refocus and get back on track. This is your North Star, keeps it simple, provides clarity in the midst of chaotic situations. A leader needs to retreat when things get crazy.

Steve Jobs: “We are making easy to use computer”

Northpoint Church: “We create churches unchurched people want to attend”

If you take the time to work through these it will give you a place to go and keep clarity in times of chaos and great complexity.

Complexity is enemy of clarity

Friday’s Favorite Tweets Of The Week

Posted: 10th May 2013 by Mark Cundiff in Leadership
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  • “Everything you have in your life you have attracted to yourself because of the person you are.” Brian Tracy
  • “If u work just for money, u’ll never make it, but if u love what u’re doing and u always put customer 1st, success will be yours.”Ray Kroc
  • “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”Bill Gates
  • “No man is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own personal initiative.” Napoleon Hill
  • “Learn how to turn frustration into fascination. you’ll learn more being fascinated by life than you’ll by being frustrated by it.” Jim Rohn
  • “No man is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own personal initiative.” Napoleon Hill

Savor The SuccessSavor The Success ‏@SavorTheSuccess

  • Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. ~ Peter Marshall
  • “It’s so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to.” -Annie Gottlier

Chuck SwindollChuck Swindoll ‏@chuckswindoll

  • One of the most helpful and healthy things you can do is acknowledge, “I have been wrong.”
  • You may be dying because of bitterness. The guilt you feel is a healthy Godsend to bring you to your knees.

Savor The SuccessSavor The Success ‏@SavorTheSuccess

  • Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Zig ZiglarZig Ziglar ‏@TheZigZiglar

  • “There are no traffic jams on the extra mike.”- Zig Ziglar

Inspirational Quote™Inspirational Quote™ ‏@InspirationalQ

  •  My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me. -Jim Valvano
  • If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain. (Maya Angelou)
  • Show me someone who lights up a room & I’ll show you a confident person.
  • “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” -Benjamin Franklin
  •  Never buy the lie that your job is “just a job.” Anything you do with 40hrs of waking time each week isn’t “just a job,” it’s your life.
  •  “We may pray most when we say least and we may pray least when we say most.” (Augustine)
 David AllenDavid Allen ‏@gtdguy

  •  What if you’d captured & managed whatever positive & creative thoughts you’ve ever had, & put them in their place?
  •  ”A ship is safe in harbour, but that’s not what ships are for.” – William Shedd
  •  One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team. -Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  •  ”Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” -Benjamin Franklin
  • “Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” ― Coco Chanel
  • If you learn to laugh at yourself, you never run out of material!
  • Life whispers. Listen closely.
  • By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before. Edwin Elliot

John C MaxwellJohn C Maxwell ‏@JohnCMaxwell

  • Fall seven times, stand up eight. -Japanese proverb

Ben Carson: Chick-fil-A Leadercast Blast From The Past

Posted: 8th May 2013 by Mark Cundiff in Leadership
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Recently Dr. Ben Carson has gotten a lot of publicity for the comments he made at a recent Prayer Breakfast with President Obama in attendance. All of us who attended the Chick-fil-A Leadercast back in 2010 got some great exposure to this man’s great intellect and his insights into many areas. Below are some highlights from his talk at the 2010 Chick-fil-A Leadercast.

Join us this coming Friday May 10th at a location near you to hear others like Dr. Ben Carson as they challenge and inspire us to reach new levels of greatness in our own individual areas of influence.

For more details: Chick-fil-A Leadercast

Carson

 

Dr. Ben Carson

Neurosurgeon and Professor of Pediatric Neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom

  • Nothing beats getting people out of pain.
  • Disclaimer: I might offend some of you today, if I do, too bad.

I don’t believe in political correctness, I believe it is a very destructive force in our culture today.

    • I think it is far more important to be learning how to be civil with people with whom you disagree.
    • Grew up poor, but his mother never developed victim’s mentality.
    • Mother was only one who believed in him when he was young and not doing well in school.
    • I had poor grades so my mom came up with a solution: Turn off TV, read two books a week and turn in book reports to her, even though she couldn’t read them.
    • Did what his mom said for him to do, back then that is what you did, no questions asked.
    • While he grew up poor, his mother worked 3 jobs to stay off welfare, she never saw anyone go on it and come off it, she  didn’t want that for her kids, wanted to show them a different way.

If no one accepts your excuses, then you stop using them, start finding solutions.

  • Due his mother’s guidance in the  space of 1.5 years he went from bottom of class to top of class.
  • I had the same brain in 5th grade when doing horribly as I did in 7th grade at top of class, just had different perspective of it, thought of himself differently due to his mother’s influence.
  • She recalibrated his mind.

What could you do if you really put your mind to something?

  • Can we be first pinnacle nation to learn from others and turn around our downward spiral? I believes we can!
  • Our founding fathers were men of great faith but we seem to want to run from that now in our government.
  • We are truly different from other nations that fell,  our foundation of faith differentiates us from the other nations that have fallen.
  • PEERS=people who encourage errors, rudeness & stupidity.
  • His peers got him off track for a short period of time and he fell backwards academically and other wise. His mother stayed at it with him and he eventually turned it around achieving great academically which eventually led to where he is today.

No knowledge is irrelevant you never know what doors it will open to you!

  • You must start thinking outside of the box, if keep you doing like everyone else has done nothing will change and improve.

What is success?
What does success look it like?

Success is using talent God has given you to elevate other people!

We need to be reminded that it is OK to live by godly principles!

Dave Ramsey: Chick-fil-A Leadercast Blast From The Past

Posted: 7th May 2013 by Mark Cundiff in Leadership
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On this Friday the 2013 Chick-fil-A Leadercast will be broadcast all over the world. I have been attending the Chick-fil-A Leadercast event for more than 10 years now. Each year I come away inspired with a notebook full of new insights to help me grow and successfully overcome the challenges that leaders face.

Make sure you take part in this event! Join more than 125,000 leaders from all around the globe May 10, 2013. The theme for 2013 is, Simply Lead. This event will inspire you and encourage you in your growth as a leader and a person. You will learn at the feet of leaders who are known around the world for their accomplishments and leadership abilities.

This one-of-a-kind event will be broadcast live from Atlanta and simulcast into communities across the globe.

For more details and to register check out their site Chick-fil-A Leadercast 

See you there!

See below to get a taste of what you will learn at this great event.

 

Dave Ramsey

Personal money-management expert, national radio personality, and best-selling author of The Total Money Makeover


As a leader you have the responsibility to serve those you lead!

300 people employed at his company.
Not boss of those people I am the servant of all those people.
Businesses are operated by people who know how to serve their people, customers and communities!
What are the principles that caused us to grow as a business?

5 Keys things to enable us to win

1. People Matter: This the DNA of our organization. This has to be how you live.

Your customers are people.
Your customers matter, they are people, they have sickness, they are not just a place to extract money from!
Your team members are people.
Your team matters, they are not just units of production.
In many companies their people have become a commodity.
Companies wonder why their why they have people who are not loyal to them. It is because you are not loyal to them.
Loyalty breeds loyalty. Be loyal to your people.
Love your competitors, treat them well and with respect.


2. An Incredible, Excellent Team Matters: Our organization is a place where excellence matters.

Of course our company is made up of nice people we fired all the jerks!

We have won six years in a row in Nashville an award as the best place to work for in Nashville.
Start the hiring process by prayer, send us the right person, keep your crazy people away.
Make sure you really get to know your people during the recruitment process. It takes longer but it is worth it in the long run.
We will fire you for gossip, it is destructive. You must hand your negatives up, never down. I will warn you once, fire you second time. (See more on this here: The Five Enemies of Unity)
As a leader you need to be intentional about the culture you cultivate in your organization.
3. Slow and Steady Matters: This wins the race!

You must be consistent.
You must have a no quit attitude.
He who is impulsive imparts folly.
Don’t have business ADD, can’t run after everything that is shiny.
Must keep focus.
Asked a billionaire what is key to your success? He reads the story of the tortoise and the hare, tortoise always win!
Building a successful business is a crock pot process.
Take your time!
I have worked my butt off for 15 years and now I am overnight success!
4. Financial Principles Matter: You must run business with a budget. You spend less than you take in. You must get out of debt.

Slow down, run your business on less than it takes in, operate with margin.
Stay out of debt.
Debt increase risk and this will maximize the impact of your mistakes.
When everything is going good even stupid looks good.
Be generous!
Be generous and giving to your community.
Be generous to your team.
Be generous with customers.
You need to have moral component to your business.
By having a generous culture you team will act differently and function at a higher level.
When you have generous spirit it sparks creativity among your team members.
5. A higher calling matters: When you play for something bigger than you, you will fight harder, work harder, and achieve more.

Define your higher calling.
Why do you do what you do?
What gives you meaning and purpose?
Leave an amazing legacy!

How have Cathy family turned chicken into a higher calling?
Their on mission that is bigger than chicken!
They are shaping lives of teenagers all over country.
What you do for a living has got to be worth getting up every morning.
It has to energize you to go busting through all the walls.
You won’t do all it takes if you don’t have a higher calling.
Your organization must understand the Why?
You better know what your why is and your team better know what your why is.
Got to have something that you are aiming at.
How cool would it be that you created thousands of millionaires like Microsoft did. Impacted so many lives in such a big way. Changed their family tree forever.
Studying family businesses and how they transition from generation to generation.
One part of my higher calling is leaving legacy of those I have had a part in developing and sending them on their way to achieve bigger and better things. To observe them out there when they are doing their own thing, achieving great things on their own. That is rewarding to reflect back on the fact I had some part in their success.
What will your legacy be?
What will the dash on your tombstone represent?
I am all about making my dash count for as much as possible by leaving a legacy that I can be proud of.

Seth Godin: Chick-fil-A Leadercast Blast From The Past

Posted: 5th May 2013 by Mark Cundiff in Leadership
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There is less than one week until the 2013 Chick-fil-A Leadercast on Friday May 10th. I have been attending the Chick-fil-A Leadercast event for more than 10 years now. Each year I come away inspired with a notebook full of new insights to help me grow and successfully overcome the challenges that leaders face.

Make sure you take part in this event! Join more than 125,000 leaders from all around the globe May 10, 2013. The theme for 2013 is, Simply Lead. This event will inspire you and encourage you in your growth as a leader and a person. You will learn at the feet of leaders who are known around the world for their accomplishments and leadership abilities.

This one-of-a-kind event will be broadcast live from Atlanta and simulcast into communities across the globe.

For more details and to register check out their site Chick-fil-A Leadercast 

See you there!

To get a taste of what you will get at this event see a look back at Seth Godin’s highlights.

Seth Godin

Entrepreneur, Marketing Expert, & Best-Selling Author of 12 Books Including “Linchpin”

Looking at the “act of making decisions”

Most of the time we are not seeing what is versus what we are hoping for.

Most often see what we are hoping for.

Newspapers business has been slow to see reality in their business model with the emergence of the internet replacing much of what they do. Many in that industry long for what used to be instead of embracing the reality of what is and then adapting to it.

  • Do you ignore reality?
  • If you do, you will make decisions like this at your peril.

You either operate in a spam world, or build your business by permission, you build relationships with your customers and earn their trust.

  • Do you deliver product they want and need?

There are 2 ways to get married:

1. You go to bunch of singles bar and propose to everybody hoping someone will say yes eventually.

2. You date your potential spouse and develop relationship and earn your partners love and devotion.

  • Earn right to Whisper to your people
  • You earn right to whisper to you customer instead of trying to out yell your competitors.
  • Are you remarkable?
  • Do you stand out in crowd?
  • Most have settled for producing and selling average stuff to average people.
  • When you do this you are aiming at middle.
  • This model does not work.

Yelling does not work!

Socks illustration: a sock manufacture decided to approach their business in a unique way to differentiate themselves from their competitors.

  • Made decision to make socks for 12-year-old girls.
  • Made a decision to make socks that don’t match.
  • Made it a fashion!
  • They had all the 12-year-old girls saying, “Want to see my socks?” to their girlfriends at school.
  • The result was those friends went home and told their moms, “I need new socks” Socks that don’t match!
  • Selling mismatched socks became a new market that differentiated them from the mass marketing commodity type sells of their competition.
  • $1 million first years, last year $40 million in sales.
  • They built this idea into what they do everyday, make socks.
  • You give 12-year-old girls something to talk about.

Are you in story business or in fact business?

  • Most business just worry about facts,  facts, facts…
  • People don’t by stuff because of facts!
  • You don’t by the absolute cheapest, car, clothes
  • You tell yourselves stories.
  • We all tell ourselves stories.
  • 2 can watch debate and come up with different stories of what happened in the debate.
  • We each make judgments based on what we bring to situation, write stories from our own individual perspectives
  • Solar lantern pays for itself in 90 days, but almost no one buys one, Why is this? Facts tells us we should.
  • What your telling me or selling me better be true, but more just as important is the notion that it better resonate with me personally.

Future does not care if you believe in it or not, because it is coming!

  • Too many times we are happy with where we are and don’t want to change.
  • Get rid of your hammer, if all you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail.
  • One saw internet, Seth wrote book sold 784 copies, others saw internet and built Yahoo and became worth $80 billion.
  • You must think outside box.
  • Going to edge of box will make people around you nervous.
  • Henry Ford-most important person of 20th century.
  • Mastered mass production, interchangeable parts.
  • Ford was so good at this no one could compete and they were wildly successful.

Interchangeable parts bring us interchangeable people.

  • This model is not working so well now.
  • This is now only good at making average stuff for average people.
  • If you want something above average this don’t work.

You need to have irreplaceable people to make something extraordinary!

  • You need to be the organization that people want to work for.
  • Increasing productivity by showing up more-it is hard work, takes a lot of guts.
  • Lots of people are very busy out there polishing, getting all their ducks in a row. Trying to get things in order.

Once I get ducks in row I will be ready to do something interesting.

  • We don’t need better compliance, we need better decisions to be made.
  • Need action.
  • Managment leads you to do what you did yesterday better and faster.
  • Leadership is hiring great people who you trust, get in great position with the right platform and get out-of-the-way and let your people create and produce.
  • Leadership is taking us somewhere where we all want to go.
  • Do you want to comply or own things.
  • Most companies operate with the compliance model and all they get from their people is compliance.
  • Managed=Dilbert world
  • Your career now=series of projects.
  • Resume=your projects, your reputation.

Leadership=doing more

  • Can you motivate team to do more?

Scarcity vs Abundance Mentality

  • Books: Paper vs. Kindle, Kindle can make book for .05
  • Organizations that embrace trust will be successful.

Normal now=On edges

  • Most organizations pushing people to be in middle.
  • Are you going to be about recognizing our weirdness, that their are others out there with the same weirdness.
  • Recognize that there other people out there that are focused on the things you are focused on.
  • Will you go back to work and do normal?
  • You are either an accountant or an artist.

Artist are human beings who use their platform to make a difference, to do something worth doing. 

Do you want to lead a group of irreplaceable people, doing work that really  matters, you can have an opportunity to stand out. 

  • It is easier to do work that matters.
  • It is easier to stand out.
  • Internet is a connection machine, enables you to share ideas that matter with the world instantly.

Are you going to race to top or race to bottom?

  • Most people are racing to the bottom, most people are moving to work cheaper,  make it cheaper, make it faster, all this=race to bottom.

Make a decision to race to top!

Ask yourself the question: Will they miss you if you are not there?

  • You have been given the opportunity to touch people, you need be saying “I can’t believe I have this opportunity to touch and impact other people”
  • Make choice to do art?
Artist are human beings who use their platform to make a difference, to do something worth doing. 

Steve Uzzell: Chick-fil-A Leadercast Blast From the Past

Posted: 4th May 2013 by Mark Cundiff in Leadership
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There is less than one week until the 2013 Chick-fil-A Leadercast on Friday May 10th. I have been attending the Chick-fil-A Leadercast event for more than 10 years now. Each year I come away inspired with a notebook full of new insights to help me grow and successfully overcome the challenges that leaders face.

Make sure you take part in this event! Join more than 125,000 leaders from all around the globe May 10, 2013. The theme for 2013 is, Simply Lead. This event will inspire you and encourage you in your growth as a leader and a person. You will learn at the feet of leaders who are known around the world for their accomplishments and leadership abilities.

This one-of-a-kind event will be broadcast live from Atlanta and simulcast into communities across the globe.

For more details and to register check out their site Chick-fil-A Leadercast 

See you there!

 

Here is a taste of what you will get from one the past events.

Uzzell

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Steve Uzzell
Award-winning corporate photographer and former staff member of National Geographic

Problem Solving & The Open Road

  • Curiosity is so much more powerful than observing the obvious.
  • We all do the same things no matter what it says on our business cards.

We all are involved in the innovate use of the problem solving process.

  • Best place to solve a problem is on the open road!
  • Why does an open road open your mind?

The Spirit of the Open Road

  • The Open Road allows you to take a step away from your immediate world, yet gives you a visual point to concentrate on.

Multitasking gives you opportunity to screw up more than one thing at same time!

  • Very act seeking sets something off in us that inspires our problem solving juices.

Make all preparations necessary!

You better know where you are going, if you don’t where you are going any road will get you there.

  • Quickest way to learn where you are going is to question everything who, what when, where, why and how.
  • Question even what you think you already know!

Chance favors the prepared mind

  • Preparation lays the ground for magic to happen.
  • Your mind will only take in what you are prepared to receive.
  • Chance, preparation, & magic combine together to solve problems.

Are you sure?

  • This question takes information and turns it into knowledge.
  • Preparation leads to commitment.
  • Preparation makes problem your passion.

You will become known for the problems you solve!

  • Solutions are sometimes found in very unexpected places.
  • Each of us has a unique knowledge.
  • Some take a simple tool and link a dreamer and a dream.
  • Have courage to always pursue your passion.

To be good teacher you must be good learner

  • Trusting instincts is needed in problem solving.
  • Most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
  • Let eyes not only see  but also behold.
  • Find fresh perspective.
  • Find your horizon.
  • Nourish your soul.
  • Enjoy journey.

Look for what truly excites you.

  • Open road is both a place and state of mind.
  • Universe is one of abundance not scarcity.
  • Enjoy the ride more than you ever have before.

Friday’s Favorite Tweets Of The Week

Posted: 3rd May 2013 by Mark Cundiff in Leadership
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  • If you learn to laugh at yourself, you never run out of material!
  • Life whispers. Listen closely.
  • By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before. Edwin Elliot
  • Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back. -Babe Ruth

John C MaxwellJohn C Maxwell ‏@JohnCMaxwell

  • Fall seven times, stand up eight. -Japanese proverb
  • Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. -Andre Gide
  •  It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -Seneca

Kent JulianKent Julian ‏@KentJulian

  • Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. – Og Mandino
  • Do your best everyday. Live each day as if it’s your Masterpiece. – John Wooden
  • Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you. – Arnold Palmer
  • Believe in yourself and all that you are. There is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle. – Christian D. Larson
  • Don’t waste your time hating failure for it is a greater teacher than success. – Clarissa Pinkola-Estés

Meredith BellMeredith Bell ‏@MeredithMBell

  • “It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to produce spectacular results.” – Roger Staubach

Michael HyattMichael Hyatt ‏@MichaelHyatt

  • Managing creatives is an art. Press too hard, they shut down. Don’t press hard enough, they never finish.

Great Minds QuotesGreat Minds Quotes ‏@GreatestQuotes

  • “Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.” – Jonathan Kozol
  •  ”The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself.” – Denis Waitley
  • “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” – Stephen Covey

Brian BloyeBrian Bloye ‏@BrianBloye

  • Leaders – when we don’t give feedback to those that are on our team it creates suspicion. @maclake
  • If you don’t have shared expectations, you will have shared frustrations. @maclake

Don RouloDon Roulo ‏@donroulo

  •  Every successful person is a quitter. You heard me right. They are quitters. They quit doing things UNsuccessful people do.

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Posted: 1st May 2013 by Mark Cundiff in Leadership
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