The Leading from the Heart Workshop

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The Leading from the Heart Workshop
Aktion Associates
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The future belongs to those who see
possibilities before they become obvious. John
Sculley
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Old storyTwo stonemasons are working on the
same project. An observer asks, What are you
doing?

• Im cutting stone.
• Im building a great cathedral.

• The first stonemason replies
• The second stonemason replies

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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
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provoke Verb. To stir somebody to an emotion or
response to serve as the stimulating factor for
an activity.
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I N S P I R E
To lead effectively, you must stimulate the
behavior you are seeking.
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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

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VitalIntegrities
Leadership actions that, when practiced
proactively, demonstrate your organizations
existing values and further establish your
credibility as a leader.
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Leadership is proactive!We can only follow
leaders who are moving.
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values-based leaders
Have a Vision and Convince Others To Share it
vital integrities
We often describe children as having wild or
active imaginations. The best leaders never
outgrow their imaginative gift.
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Have a Vision

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

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backwards
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Visionary leaders
they envision the result first, and then they
develop a strategy to get there.
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Convince Others to Share It

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

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

• Asa Philip Randolph
• Billy Starr
• Ann Bancroft

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Freedom is never granted it is won.
Asa Philip Randolph 1889-1979

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1941
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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
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visions take time
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Let the nation and the world know
the meaning of our numbers.
Asa Philip Randolph, August 28, 1963
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No one could remember an invading army quite as
gentle as the two hundred thousand civil-rights
marchers who occupied Washington today. Russell
Baker
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by age twenty-five,
billystarr had already
lost his mother, an uncle, and
a cousin to cancer
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his goal
COMPLETE THE PUNISHING 140-MILE BIKE RIDE FROM
BOSTON TO PROVINCETOWN IN TIME TO CATCH THE
AFTERNOON FERRY BACK HOME
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Im going to make this big. Billy Starr
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Since its inception in 1980,
the Pan-Massachusetts
Challenge has raised
171,000,000 for cancer research.
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have a PURPOSE
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A unified force of people made whole by the
belief in a single mission has the ability to
improve the human condition. -Billy Starr
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Ann Bancroft led her first Antarctic expeditions
at the age of eight, albeit make-believe ones.
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northsouth
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Each time her vision was clear go first.
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Reaching extraordinary milestones is not without
its hardships.
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Real leadership is not about getting to the top.
In this game, leadership is about coming back
alive. Will Steger
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Im always wondering, how will I act at my
moment of truth? Ann Bancroft
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Ultimately, their ability to convince others to
share their visions is what made them remarkable.
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The age-old secret to generating buy-in is to
strategically design, target, and deliver a story
that projects a positive future.

• Mark S. Walton
• Generating Buy-In Mastering the Language of
  Leadership

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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.
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If you think that conveying ideas effectively is
an innate abilitya talent reserved for naturally
gifted oratorsthen you are probably neglecting
your role as a communicator.
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Emphasized Common Values
It is a dream deeply rooted in the American
dream.
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Described the Importance of the Values And if
America is to be a great nation, this must become
true.
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visionsopponents 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.
disparagedthe
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FORECASTED SUCCESS
When we allow freedom to ringwe will be able to
speed up that day when all of Gods 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!
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Selected Emotional Language
we will not be satisfied until justice rolls
down like waters and righteousness like a mighty
stream. Adapted from Amos 524
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The change agent of the old economy worked in an
environment where incremental change was all that
was neededand all that was tolerated.
Robert Reich
Your Job is Change, Fast
Company, October 2000
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Change today demands the
change insurgent. -Robert Reich
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bigger is better
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The biggest men and women
with 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
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Small ideas dont bring

out our best. Big ideas do.

• Kent Keith

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If you want to build a ship, dont drum up
people to collect wood and dont 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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