Steve Farber's The Radical Edge

Stoke Your Business, Amp Your Life, And Change The World

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 38% Agree Strongly To what extent do you agree with this statement: We have a leadership crisis in this country today? Source: Center For Public Leadership – National Leadership Index 2007 39% Agree 6% Disagree Strongly 16% Disagree 77 22

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 39% Agree Strongly To what extent do you agree with this statement: Unless we get better leaders, the U.S. will decline as a nation? Source: Center For Public Leadership – National Leadership Index 2007 40% Agree 3% Disagree Strongly 16% Disagree 79 19

Not Much Great Deal Moderate Source: Center For Public Leadership – National Leadership Index 2007 How much confidence do you have in the leadership of the following sectors?

Accept the Challenge

Are leaders born, or are they made?

Yes!

Self / Others / World

Amplify Yourself

Find Your Frequency (and Amp it Up)

What’s most important to you in the way you live your life?

Sparky’s Frequency

"When I read about finding my frequency, I thought OK, let's go: What am I about? Right away, 'delight' entered my mind. And I thought, that's surprising. But kind of wimpy. Not a whole lot of depth to it. I want to do more than delight. Then I thought, OK. JOLT! I want to jolt people. Yeah, that's better. But wait....that's still not quite it: Jolt has connotations of making it all about me, and of hurting people a little in the process…

"Then...I got it: Aha! Spark! Yeah, that's it. We live such short lives in the course of the Universe. I'm hardly more than a spark. But in the microsecond that spark exists it's all that can be noticed. So there's the ego involved, but in a humble way. And beyond that...a spark ignites things with much greater power than the spark. But the spark is vital to ignite. Without the spark, the engine that powers the ship can't even run. It's the little tiny and incredibly temporary spark that pushes the whole machine into action.

"So there ya go. I'm a spark!

” B ut I sure as hell ain't changing my name to 'Sparky'.”

What can you change about…

your activities, attitudes, priorities, and choices that will bring you more in tune with your frequency and reduce the static in your life?

Whitney Gets Her Groove Back

“ The clarity I regained led me to redefine my job and work with managers to reassign some of my responsibilities (ones that I was tired of, or had simply been henpecked into taking) to people who I knew had wanted them for quite some time. I rewrote my resume, dropping off some things that I’d done (and done well) but didn’t enjoy and didn’t want to be called upon to do again — I guess you could say I redefined my personal brand . I walked away from some long-time relationships that were long past their expiration dates…and new friends with similar interests quickly appeared in my life to fill those empty places…

“ I decided what I wanted to be known for, and shaped my subsequent career and personal decisions accordingly. I found volunteer work that allowed me to marry three things I like to immerse myself in — writing, technology, and animals ... The work there gave me the courage to go after a gig as a regular columnist for a newspaper.

On my old frequency, I would have found none of these things . ”

Farber’s Frequency Do what you love in the service of people who love what you do.

Focus on Others

Kraut, Fussell, Brennan, Siegel Effects of Proximity on Collaboration

“ When people are collocated it takes very little effort for them to start interacting.”

Story Inventory How many stories can you tell about the people that you “know”?

Change The World

“ If you live in this world without ever attempting to change it, you will have sold a ruby for the price of Spam.” From The Radical Edge: Stoke Your Business, Amp Your Life, and Change the World

“ The goal is not to speculate on what might happen, but to imagine what you can actually make happen…. Companies fail to create the future not because they fail to predict it but because they fail to imagine it.”

Gary Hamel Leading the Revolution

Source: George Ainsworth-Land Journal of Creative Behavior

Did You Ask For These?

Post-Its

24 Hour News

The Internet

Minivans

Hal Sperlich

“ In the three years of developing the minivan, we never once got a letter from a housewife asking us to invent one.”

Wake Up

Gary Hamel Leading the Revolution

“ Every day companies get blindsided by the future…yet the future never arrives as a surprise to everyone in the organization. Someone, somewhere, was paying attention. ”