Slideshow Transcript

1. Slide 5: the radical
2. Slide 6: The Extreme Leader… LOVE cultivates ENERGY generates AUDACITY inspires PROOF provides
3. Slide 7: cultivate
4. Slide 8: Kouzes and Posner The Leadership Challenge “After numerous interviews and case analyses, we noted that many leaders used the word love freely when talking about their own motivations to lead.”
5. Slide 9: LAN Specialist “I have told my technicians to make the customer absolutely love you. Take-you- home-to-dinner love you. Meet-the-wife-and- kids love you. Because if the customer loves you, you can blow up their building and they will say ‘accidents happen.”
6. Slide 10: “I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did…The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” Steve Jobs, Commencement Address, Stanford University, 6/14/05
7. Slide 11: “Why do I love this business / idea / product / colleague / customer …and how do I show it?”
8. Slide 12: generate
9. Slide 14: “…Leaders model the intensity and energy that it takes to stay ahead competitively and meet ever more ambitious goals…They do this because they love what they do.” Noel Tichy, The Leadership Engine
10. Slide 15: “We own the face.” Donald Chaulk VP, Shaving Technology Laboratory, Gillette
11. Slide 16: “What’s exciting about the work that I / we really do?” (answer out loud, please)
12. Slide 17: inspire
13. Slide 18: A bold and blatant disregard for normal constraints...
14. Slide 19: …in order to change the world for the better.
15. Slide 20: “When [a person’s] biggest risk is trying to get through the day without falling down, that’s not a great life.” Stan Hindmarsh CEO, Hallmark Retirement Corp.
16. Slide 24: “We have so much to do here in Guatemala.” Agnes Goodman 91 Years Old Guatemala, April, 2003
17. Slide 25: “How are we going to change the world of our employees, customers and marketplace?”
18. Slide 26: provide
19. Slide 28: “There are many people who think they want to be matadors, only to find themselves in the ring with two thousand pounds of bull bearing down on them, and then discover that what they really wanted was to wear tight pants and hear the crowd roar. ” Terry Pearce, Leadership Coaching…A Contact Sport The San Francisco Examiner, 4/00
20. Slide 30: “The first time I went down that run, I was going way too fast, and I realized I’d just made the biggest mistake of my life. When I got to the bottom, I couldn’t wait to get back up and do it again.” Jimmy Shea
21. Slide 31: All material available at stevefarber.com
22. Slide 32: “This book is very good and I like that you put the language in there without blanking it out.” 8th Grade Reader 17 May 2005