Words Appreciative Leaders Live By In Your Own Best Way - Ian Berry

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The Appreciative Leader Series

words to live byin your own best way

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Contained herein are foundation principles

that I’ve helped more than 1000 leaders, women and men, in over 40 countries,

to apply in their own best way,since 1991.

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All remarkable resultsrely on

remarkable relationships.


Simply, yet profoundly,every human being

is remarkable at birth.

Our quest is to stay remarkable.


To be who we are,and to become all that we’re

capable of becoming,is the only purpose in life.

Robert Louis Stevenson


Help everyone to see themselves as remarkable and then help them

to become who they see.


See yourself as remarkable and become who you see.


The deepest principlein human nature

is the craving to be appreciated.

William James


The Appreciative Leader has one

primary intention -to fully appreciate and get the best out of yourself

and other people.


People don’t wantto be appraised.

We want tobe appreciated.


Increase your appreciation of people and their increased accountability will follow.

This is the simplest pathway toachieving personal and business aspirations.


Maintain your ‘attitude of gratitude’

When you’re grateful for what you’ve got,you can have more of what you want.


Profit is not a reasonfor being in business.

Profit is a resultof being good at business.

Focus on your reasonand your results will be better.


Always remember you are absolutely unique.Just like everybody else.

Margaret Mead


If you want to know yourpast, look into your present conditions.

If you want to know yourfuture, look into your present actions.

Buddhist saying


Success dependson where intention is.

Gita Bellin


To be accountable forour intentions, feelings,thoughts, and actions,and not attach them

to what other people do or don’t do, is the first step to freedom.


When a ship misses a harbour,it’s not usually the harbours fault.

Janet Lapp


By definition, the full expression of one’spotential demands taking total responsibility

or ownership.If it did not, it would not be one’s own potential,

it would be partly someone else’s.

John Whitmore


Every choice we make has consequences.A key to making the best choices for us

is to consider all the consequences,and then ask Is this what I really want?


Be clear on where you’re going,then focus on the next quantum leap.

A “quantum leap” does not mean a big jump, even though many people use it that way.

In fact, it’s an infinitesimally small change,but the key is that it’s a direct jump

from here to there.


Stress is caused by being here

and wanting to be there.

Eckhart Tolle


Leadership isthe art ensuring

people feel valued.

Management is the practice of ensuringit’s simple for people

to deliver value.


The most successful workplaces are those where

people feel valued,live values,

and deliver value.


Statements about values on walls are useless

unless we live them in the halls.


Innovation in a business context is simply change

that adds value.

Dr. Amantha Imberof Inventium


Self-leadership precedesleading for others, which precedes

leading for leaders.


Having a continuous attitude of gratitude is the first step to

emotional, mental, physical, spiritual, anduniversal well-being.


It's not a question of what should I do

but who should I be.

Aristotle


Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Jim Rohn.


Invest at least 20% of your time, energy and money working on your business

(with thanks to Michael Gerber).


All breakthroughs are break “withs”old ways of thinking.

Thomas Kuhn


If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain.If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees.

If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people.

Old Chinese Proverb


Pessimists have trouble making room for possibility, and thus possibility has trouble

finding room for pessimists.

Seth Godin


Don’t let yesterdayuse up too much of today

Will Rogers


The most successful leaders have mentors and are being mentors for others.


Your number one role as a leader is to help other people

to unleash and enhance their gifts (talents).


Ensure people have accountability to make

decisions at every transaction and interaction point of your business.


Every moment matters.

If things don't work out in this moment, you can adjust in the next moment.


It always seems impossibleuntil it's done.

Nelson Mandela


For major decisions have a process that is

transparent so that people can see the logical and

emotional steps you made to arrive at

your decision.


Strategic planningis an oxymoron.

Strategy is a like a compass. It confirms our direction,

and therefore guidesour decision-making.

Execution is the map.


A key to strategy is simplifying it into a

sentence, those who will execute have bought into.

Critical then is each person having their own unique

piece of your execution map.


Co-create a culture of

candour where people are having candid and convivial

conversations about their piece of your execution

map every day.


Ensure that appreciating people when they do well and helping them to be accountable when

they don't are integral to daily conversations.


Compete with yourself. Take responsibility for your intentions,

feelings, thoughts, actions and behaviours.


Collaborate and let other people be responsible for their intentions,

feelings, thoughts, actions and behaviours.


Co-create a shared-view about how your values will be lived behaviourially.

Just having words has no value.


Appreciative Leadersco-create and maintain a shared-view with people about

where you are (reality; what is), where you're going (possibility; what can be),

why you’re going there (purpose), how you'll get where you're going (strategy),

who'll do what and when (execution),how you'll know you're on track

(milestones; lead measures), as well ashow you'll behave along the way (culture, values).


Give people immediate positive feedback when you see them living the behaviours of

your values, and feedforward when they don't.


Respectfully and with dignity let go any person not willing to be in alignment with shared-view.

Everyone has a place, just maybe not at your place.


Stop saying you don't have time. You have 168 hours every week and what you

do with every second is your choice.


Technology does not run an enterprise,relationships do.Patricia Fripp


Make a list at the end of every month as to what you'll

stay doing, stop doing,

and start doing, and follow it.


Say please, thank you, and I love you. They're still the

most powerful words in every language.


Stay focused on reasons, relationships and routines.

Result follow.


Most of us tend to suffer

from ‘agenda anxiety’,the feeling that what we want to say to others is

more important than what we think they mightwant to say to us.

Nido Qubein


Home is that place which,when you go there,

they have to let you in.

Robert Frost


Inherent in every desireis the means to achieve it.

Deepak Chopra


However wanted or unwanted your present circumstances may be, they function as needed feedback so that you can know the current

status of the result you are creating.

Robert Fritz


Discipline is the bridge betweenthought and accomplishment.

Jim Rohn


Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world.

For indeed, that’s all who ever have.

Margaret Mead


Sometimes I wonder if the world is being runby smart people who are putting us on,

or imbeciles who really mean it.

Mark Twain


There are only two ways to live your life.One is a though nothing is a miracle.

The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein


You see things; and you say, Why?But I dream things that never were;

and I say Why not?

George Bernard Shaw


Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only

with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Kahlil Gibran


The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those

who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Alvin Toffler


Be Kind; Everyone You Meet is

Fighting a Hard Battle.

attributed toJohn Watson


What would you add to this list? I'd love to know your thoughts. Please email [email protected]


I work with you to fully appreciate your life’s and leadership story, be a mentor for you as you imagine, create and live your next chapter, and while you become the

best mentor you can be for others.

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The principles herein form a background for

The Appreciative Leader handbook,an overview of which is on the next slide.

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The Appreciative Leader handbook,is only available as a numbered,

limited edition manual, to people who participate in an online or in person event.

A companion resources web pageis also provided.

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