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“The future belongs to those who see possibilities before

they become obvious.”

John Sculley

The first stonemason replies:

The second stonemason replies:

“I’m cutting stone.”

“I’m building a great cathedral.”

Old story:Two stonemasons are working on the same project. An observer asks, “What are you doing?”

“Most people are used as the hands and feet of the

organization while only a comparative few are used for their brains.”

Gervase Bushe The Appreciative Self: Inspiring

the Best in Others

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I start with the premise that the function of

leadership is to produce more leaders, not more

followers.

Ralph Nader

pro·voke

Verb. To stir somebody to an emotion or response; to

serve as the stimulating factor for an activity.

To lead effectively, you must stimulate the behavior you

are seeking.

I N S P I R E

Values-based

leaders demonstrate

six vital integrities.

They:

Accept challenges and take risks

Master both listening and speaking

Live by the values they profess

Freely give away their authority

Recognize the best in others

Have a vision and convince others to share it

Vital

Integrities

Leadership actions that, when practiced

proactively, demonstrate your organization’s

existing values and further establish your credibility

as a leader.

Leadership is proactive!

We can only follow leaders who are moving.

[6]Have a Vision and Convince Others To Share it

values-based leaders:

We often describe children as having wild or active

imaginations. The best leaders never outgrow

their imaginative gift.

vital integrities

Have a

Vision

Good leaders have a vision. They hold in their minds pictures of what is possible.

backwards: seeVisionary leaders

they envision the result first, and then they develop a strategy to get there.

Convince

Others to

Share It

Great leaders convince others to share their vision by articulating it in memorable and inspirational ways.

People with vision are so intent on reaching their goals that others are simply compelled to follow.

3ordinary individuals

extraordinary

Asa Philip Randolph

Billy Starr

Ann Bancroft

visions

“Freedom is never granted;

it is won.”

Asa Philip

Randolph 1889-1979

1941

Executive Order 8802

“There shall be no discrimination in the employment of workers in defense industries or government because of race, creed, color, or national origin.”

President Franklin D. Roosevelt June 25, 1941

visions take time

“Let the nation and the world know the meaning of our

numbers.”

Asa Philip Randolph, August 28, 1963

“No one could remember an invading army quite as gentle as

the two hundred thousand civil-rights

marchers who occupied Washington today.”

Russell Baker

by age twenty-five,

billystarr had already lost his mother, an uncle, and a cousin to cancer

his goal:COMPLETE THE PUNISHING 140-MILE BIKE RIDE FROM BOSTON TO PROVINCETOWN IN TIME TO CATCH THE AFTERNOON FERRY BACK HOME

“I’m going to make this big.”

Billy Starr

Since its inception in 1980, the Pan-Massachusetts

Challenge has raised

$171,000,000 for cancer research.

have a

PURPOSE

“A unified force of people made whole by the belief in a single mission has the ability to improve the human condition.”

-Billy Starr

Ann Bancroft led her first Antarctic expeditions at the age of eight, albeit make-believe ones.

north&south

Each time her vision was clear: go first.

Reaching extraordinary milestones is not without

its hardships.

“Real leadership is not about getting to the top. In this game, leadership is about coming back alive.”

Will Steger

“I’m always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth?” Ann Bancroft

Ultimately, their ability to convince others to share

their visions is what made them remarkable.

“The age-old secret to generating buy-in is to

strategically design, target, and deliver a story that projects a

positive future.”

Mark S. WaltonGenerating Buy-In: Mastering the Language of Leadership

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.’”

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise

up and live out the true meaning of its creed:

‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all

men are created equal.’”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you think that conveying ideas effectively is an innate ability—a

talent reserved for naturally gifted orators—then you are probably

neglecting your role as a communicator.

Emphasized Common Values

“It is a dream deeply rooted in

the American dream.”

Described the Importance of the Values “And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.”

vision’sopponents “I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.”

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FORECASTED SUCCESS“When we allow freedom to ring…we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s

children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be

able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, ‘Free at last! Free at last!

Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!’”

“…we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness

like a mighty stream.”Adapted from Amos 5:24

Selected Emotional Language

“The change agent of the old economy worked in an

environment where incremental change was all that was needed—and all

that was tolerated.”

Robert Reich “Your Job is Change,” Fast Company,

October 2000

“Change today demands the change insurgent.”

-Robert Reich

bigger is better

“The biggest men and womenwith the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway.”

Dr. Kent M. Keith Anyway: The Paradoxical Commandments

—Kent Keith

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Small ideas don’t bring

out our best. Big ideas do.

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long

for the endless immensity of the sea.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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