Steve Farber's The Radical Edge
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Slides from Steve Farber's Keynote on The Radical Edge: The Extreme Leader's Guide to Uncommon Achievement
Transcript of Steve Farber's The Radical Edge
Stoke Your Business,
Amp Your Life,
And Change The World
Stoke Your Business,
Amp Your Life,
And Change The World
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38%Agree
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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
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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
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Not Much Great DealModerate
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
Accept
the Challenge
Are leaders born, or are they made?
Yes!
Self / Others / World
Amplify YourselfAmplify 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!
”But 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.”
Do what you love
in the service of people
who love what you do.
Farber’s Frequency
Focus on Others
Focus on Others
Kraut, Fussell, Brennan, SiegelEffects 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 WorldChange
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 HamelLeading the Revolution
Source: George Ainsworth-LandJournal 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 HamelLeading 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.”
“I get paid to be awake.”
Watts Wacker
Work the way Watts Wacker works.
WUP it
Scanning Panera/Columbia, MD 10:00 - 11:30 a.m. -
newspapers and WiFi users
What can I do today to create a better future for me and mine?
(i.e. family, customers,
organization, community)
Free audio series, slides, etc.
available at: stevefarber.com
