Level Three Leadership 3rd Edition

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Level Three Leadership3rd Edition

• PowerPoint Lecture Notes
• James G. Clawson

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Chapter 10

• Introduction
• Does how you feel affect your performance? How
  many times has anyone come to ask you how you
  want to feel?

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• FLOW
• Time warps
• Lose self consciousness (fear of rejection)
• Intense focus on the thing
• Perform at your best
• Seems effortless
• Feels good
• Sense of growth afterward (not shrinking)

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• How many of you have felt FLOW?
• When? How did it feel? What if you could
  recreate it?
• Is it not only recreatable, but also
  transportable from one activity to another?

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• Newburgs research
• Physicians
• Musicians
• Athletes
• Business executives
• Naval aviators

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• Resonance Model
• World-class performers (WCPs) are people
  performing at the peak of their professions and
  individual abilities. Such people are driven by
  a common pattern (Newburg)
• Dreams (internal dreams, or how you want to feel)
• Preparation
• Obstacles
• Revisiting the dream

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• Freedoms and Responsibilities
• Freedom is very important to world-class
  performers. They distinguish three types of
  desired freedom
• Freedom of a developed capacity to perform the
  abilities which a performer cultivates with
  practice and hard work
• Freedom to overcoming external constraints
  (legal and financial limitations, hostility,
  expectations) in order to create situations in
  which freedom of can be exercised
• Freedom from overcoming internal constraints
  (lack of confidence, lack of motivation, etc.)

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• World-class performers recognize the connection
  between freedoms and responsibilities. If their
  dreams are to be realized, WCPs know they have
  the responsibility to make sacrifices (time,
  money, lost opportunities) with no guarantee that
  the freedoms above will be won
• Excellence is a neurotic lifestyle

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• Ideas
• Once freedoms and responsibilities are
  recognized, WCPs begin exploring for ideas. WCPs
  keep their minds open, searching for new ways to
  define who they are, what they want and how to go
  about getting it

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• Dreams
• Not everyone has articulated a lifes dream,
  though anyone can. WCPs all have a vivid lifes
  dream and have focused their efforts on achieving
  it. There are three kinds of dreams
• Natural dreams. These occur early in life,
  without any conscious formulation some people
  simply know what they want more than anything
  else
• Given dreams. These are the product of someone
  elses direct influence a strong-willed parent
  with a vision of the childs life a school a
  religion
• Discovered or built dreams. These are
  consciously arrived at by the individual, often
  after years of exploration and reflection

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• Dreams and Goals. These are not synonymous. A
  goal is an external thing, the dream is an
  internal thing, how one wants to feel.
• Preparation. WCPs go through long periods of
  preparation schooling, training, practice,
  consultation, etc. Eventually, at certain
  moments, the dream becomes reality, and brief
  periods of resonance are experienced. Practice
  makes these moments more frequent..

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• Setbacks, Obstacles, and Successes (SOS). During
  this period, setbacks and obstacles accompany the
  periodic successes. WCPs respond to setbacks and
  obstacles by working still harder, though this
  can lead to over preparation and loss of
  enjoyment. Other people become trapped in the
  SOS stage and slowly, without fully realizing it,
  turn to solutions which take them away from their
  dream

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• Revisiting the Dream. When setbacks and
  obstacles seem insurmountable it can help to
  revisit the dream to remember how it came about,
  why it was so compelling, and how ones present
  station represents a stepping-stone toward its
  realization. Revisiting the dream can bring
  renewed energy and determination

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• Resonance
• Resonance is the key to world-class performance.
  Also called flow (Csikszentmihalyi), it is a
  special experience which high-level performance
  brings to the performer. It involves the
  following
• A sensation that time is warped (moves very
  quickly or very slowly)
• A loss of self-awareness, and a merging with
  surroundings
• Intense focus on the activity at hand
• Peak performance

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• A sense that performance is effortless
• Extreme satisfaction from performance
• Afterward, and enhanced and enlarged sense of
  self
• Through practice (often by identifying and
  recreating the circumstances that led to past
  experiences of resonance), individuals can learn
  to call up resonance on demand

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• The Purpose of Life
• One possible answer to the question What is the
  purpose of life? involves resonance
• Identify what resonates for you. This is a
  central challenge to human existence those who
  never do so cannot tap into their full potential.
  Can you find this before you die?
• Invest in your capacity to recreate that
  resonance. Do so as early as possible, and as
  assiduously as possible

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• Perform and enjoy the resonance. This is lifes
  greatest reward
• Help others find their resonance. Without
  imposing your individual dream on others, help
  them identify and pursue dreams of their own.
  Understanding resonance-and how a followers
  dream can be connected to organizational
  goals-can help you develop world-class performers