Leadership Impetus

1. The Impetus To Lead:
Leadership25

2. The Basic
Premise.

3. 1. Leadership Is a …
Mutual
Discovery
Process.

4. “Ninety percent of what we
call ‘management’ consists
of making it difficult for people
to get things done.” – Peter Drucker

5. 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.”

6. The
Leadership
Types.

7. 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.

8. 3. But Then Again, There
Are Times When This
“Cult of Personality” (Type
II Leadership) Stuff
Actually Works!

9. “A leader is
a dealer
in hope.”
Napoleon

10. 4. Find the
“Businesspeople”!
(Type III Leadership)

11. I.P.M.(Inspired Profit
Mechanic)

12. 5. All Organizations
Need the Golden
Leadership
Triangle.

13. The Golden Leadership
Triangle: (1) Talent
Fanatic … (2) Creator-
Visionary … (3) Inspired
Profit Mechanic.

14. The
Leadership
Dance.

15. 6. Leaders
DO!

16. 7.Leaders
Re-do.

17. “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

18. 8. Leaders … LOVE the
MESS!

19. “I’m not comfortable unless
I’m uncomfortable.”
—Jay Chiat

20. 9.Leaders Are …
Optimists.

21. 10. Leaders
FOCUS!

22. “To Don’t ”
List

23.
“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

24. You = Your
Calendar (Period.)

25. Calendars
do not lie. (Period.)

26. 11. Leaders …
Send V-E-R-Y
Clear Signals!

27. If It Ain’t Broke
… Break It.

28. 12. Leaders …
FORGET!/
Leaders …
DESTROY!

29. 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

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

31. “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)

32. 14. Leaders Make
[Lotsof] Mistakes –
and MAKE NO BONES
ABOUT IT!

33. Fail. Forward.
Fast.

34. 15.Leaders Make …
BIG MISTAKES!
(HINT: not by avoiding small ones)

35. 16.Leaders … Make
Their Mark /
Leaders … Do Stuff That
Matters

36. Create a ‘cause,’
not a ‘business.’

37. “I never, ever thought of myself
as a businessman. I was
interested in creating
things I would be
proud of.” —Richard Branson

38. 17. Leaders …
Have a GREAT
STORY!

39.
“A key – perhaps the key – to
leadership is
the effective communication
of a story.”
Howard Gardner
Leading Minds: An Anatomy of Leadership

40. Leaders don’t just make products
and make decisions.
Leaders make
meaning.– John Seely Brown

41. Talent.

42. 18. When It Comes to
TALENT …
Leaders Never
Compromise!

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

44. 20. Leaders
Give …
RESPECT!

45. Passion.

46. 21. Leaders …
Openly Display Their
PASSION!

47. “Nothing is so
contagious as
enthusiasm.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

48. 22. Leaders Are …
in a Hurry

49. “If things seem under control,
you’re just not going fast
enough.”—Mario Andretti

50. The “Job” of
Leading.

51. 23.Leaders Know It’s ALL
SALES ALL THE
TIME.

52. If you don’t LOVE
SALES … find
another life. (Don’t pretend
you’re a “leader.”)

53. 24. Leadership Is
an … Authentic
Performance.

54. “You must be the
change you wish to see
in the world.”
Gandhi

55. 25. Leaders …
Open the
Possibilities …

56. “Beware of the tyranny of
making Small Changes
to Small Things. Rather, make
Big Changes to Big Things.” —Roger
Enrico, former Chairman, PepsiCo

57. “You can’t behave in a calm, rational
manner. You’ve got to be out there on the
lunatic fringe.”— Jack Welch