educational approval board. foundations for legendary leadership capturing the essence of excellence

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Foundationsfor Legendary

Leadership

Capturing the Essence of Excellence.

BUILD A LEGACY:

“Cultivate in yourself the qualities you admire most in

others.”

Arnold Glason

Presented by the Two Faces of “E”…

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And E. K. Barber…

CRAFT A LEGEND:

“Leadership is action, not a position.”

Donald H. McGannon

A = Attitude"The greatest discovery of

my generation is that human beings can alter

their lives by altering their attitude of mind." William James

A = Attitude

““Whether you think you can or think you can't,

you’re right."

Henry Ford

A = Attitude

"Believe and act as if it were impossible to

fail."

Charles F. Kettering

A = Attitude

“It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”

Adlai Steveneson

B = Brain“Learning without thought is labor lost;

thought without learning

is perilous.”

Confucius

B = Brain"The illiterate of the future are not those that

cannot read or write...they are those that cannot learn, unlearn and relearn."

Alvin Toffler

“Learn to pause . . .or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.”

Doug King

C = Communication“The single biggest problem

in communication is the illusion that it has

taken place.” George Bernard Shaw

C = Communication

“You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas

won’t get you anywhere.” Lee Iacocca.

C = Communication“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean,

neither more or less.” Humpty Dumpty to Alice in Through the Looking Glass

D = Diversity“One cannot build a rich and

full orchestra with just one instrument.

Harmony by definition requires multiple notes” Elaine Estervig Beaubien

“If a person is sitting backward on a horse, why do we assume that it’s the person who is

backward, not the horse?”

“People who dance appear to

be insane to those who can’t hear the music.” George Carlin

D = Diversity“Nothing is more

dangerous than an idea when it’s the only one

you have.” Emile Chartier

E – Empowerment

“A leader is best when people barely know she exists…when her work is done, her aim is

fulfilled, they will say, ‘We did this ourselves.’”

Lao-tzu

E = Empowerment "Our research suggests that those companies that consider the people who work for them to be cannon fodder are at a

strategic disadvantage."

David Scarborough

E = Empowerment"A good leader inspires others

with confidence in her; a great leader inspires them

with confidence in themselves!"

E = Empowerment“Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising

of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a

personality beyond its normal limitations."

Peter F. Drucker

E = Empowerment

“The key to successful leadership today is

influence, not authority.” Kenneth Blanchard

F = Failure

“You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there."

Edwin Louis Cole

F – Failure

“A person can fail many times, but he isn't a

failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”

John Burroughs

G = Goals

“No one ever pulled a rabbit out of a hat without putting one in there in the

first place.”

G = Goals"Can you tell me, please,

which way I ought to go from here," asked Alice.

"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,”

said the cat.

G = Goals 

“You got to be careful if you don't know where

you're going, because you might not get there.”

Yogi Berra

H = Humor

“A workplace without laughter is a workplace

without inspiration.” Chad Dickerson

H – Humor

“Laughter is like changing a baby's diaper. It doesn't permanently solve any

problems, but it makes thing more acceptable for a while.”

H = Humor

“A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people,

of getting things done." Dwight D.Eisenhower

H = Humor

Celebrate what you want to see more of…

I – Integrity

"Always do what is right. It will gratify most of the people and astound

the rest." Mark Twain

I = Integrity“In looking for people to hire,

you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and

energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill

you." Warren Buffet

J – Justice

“The sword of justice has no scabbard.”

Antione De Riveral 

J = Justice

“It’s the spirit and not the form of law that keeps

justice alive.”

Earl Warren

K – Knowledge

“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.”

Woodrow Wilson 

K = Knowledge

“Knowledge itself

is power.”

Francis Bacon

K = Knowledge

“Knowing more is the first step to doing more.”

K = Knowledge

"If you think education is expensive, try

ignorance."

Derek Bok

L - Listen

"By providing each of us with an enormous need to

be heard, our egos overwhelm any desire to

hear."

Kevin J. Murphy

L = Listen

“The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of

the people."

Woodrow Wilson

L – Listen“Listening is a magnetic and

strange thing, a creative force. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us

unfold and expand.” Brenda Ueland

L = Listen“You can make more friends

in two months by becoming really interested in other

people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”

Dale Carnegie

M – Motivate"Human Nature has been sold short...[humans have] a higher

nature which includes the need for meaningful work, for

responsibility, for creativeness, for being fair and just, for doing

what is worthwhile and for preferring to do it well."

Abraham Maslow

M = Motivation

“It’s a funny thing about life: if you refuse to

accept anything but the very best you will very

often get it.”

Somerset Maugham

M = Motivation“When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could

do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of

my light.' One of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to

stand out of their light.” John W. Gardner

N – Nutrition

Leadership requires energy…energy must be

fueled. You must feel good to project

confidence, life, and vitality.

O = Orchestrate Change

“When you are

through changing,

are through.”

Bruce Barton

O – Orchestrate Change

“Change makes up stupider…relatively

speaking”

Dilbert

O = Orchestrate Change “When the rate of change outside an organization is

greater than the rate of change inside,

the end is near.” Jack Welch

O = Orchestrate Change

“The road is filled with flat dead squirrels who

couldn’t make up their mind”

O = Orchestrate Change  “Things may come to those who wait, but only

things left by those

who hustle."

Abraham Lincoln

P – Productivity

“Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit

there.” Will Rogers

Q – Quality

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, it is a habit”

Aristotle

Q = Quality

“Quality is never an accident; it’s always the result of high

intentions, sincere effort, intelligent direction and

skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many

alternatives.” Willa A. Foster

R – Retreat and Reflect

“When you’re standing at the edge of a cliff, a

step forward is not progress.”

R = Reflection

“Some people are too busy mopping the

floor to turn off the faucet.”

S – Stress for Success

“A diamond is a lump of coal that made good

under pressure”

S = Stress for Success 

“Most people are as happy as they make

up their minds to be.”

Abraham Lincoln.

T = Team Builder“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with

us. What we have done for others and the world

remains and is immortal.”

Albert Pine

T – Team Builder

"There is no limit to what can be

accomplished if no one cares who gets

the credit."

U – Understanding“Usually a person relates to

another under the tacit assumption that the other shares his view of reality, that indeed

there is only one reality."

Paul Watzlawick 

U = Understanding

"Nothing is so simple that it can’t be

misunderstood."

Jr. Teague

V – Vision

“If you can dream it, you can do it.”

Walt Disney

V = Vision"A rock pile ceases to be a rock

pile the moment a single person contemplates it,

bearing within him the image of a cathedral."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

V = Vision“If your actions inspire

others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you’re a leader.”

John Quincy Adams

V = Vision

"If you chase two rabbits, both will

escape."

V = Vision“You've got to think about big

things while you're doing small things, so that all the

small things go in the

right direction."

Alvin Toffler

W = Warm Fuzzies“If you don't understand that

you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only

tyranny." Dee Hock

W – Warm Fuzzies

“I can live for two years on a good compliment.” Mark Twain

W = Warm Fuzzies

“Catch someone doing something right."

Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson

W = Warm Fuzzies“I have yet to find the person, however exalted their station,

who did not do better work and put forth greater effort

under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.”

Charles Schwab

X – “Ex”cellence

“We are what we repeatedly do.

Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit”

Aristotle

X – “Ex”cellence“The society which scorns excellence in

plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates

shoddiness in philosophy because it’s an exalted activity will have neither

good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will

hold water."

John Gardner

X – “Ex”cellence"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's

determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you

seek."

Mario Andretti

Y – Youth

“Genius means little more than the faculty of

perceiving in an unhabitual way." William James

Y = Youth“The youth gets together the materials for a bridge to the

moon, and at length the middle-aged man decides to

make a woodshed with them.”

Henry David Thoreau

Y = Youth“The child's philosophy is a

true one. He does not despise the bubble

because it burst; and he immediately sets to work to blow another one.”

J. J. Procter

Z – Zest

"Nobody ever sold anybody anything by

boring them to death." David Ogilvy.

Z = Zest

““When you set yourself When you set yourself on fire, people love to on fire, people love to

come and see you burn." come and see you burn." John WesleyJohn Wesley

Final Word“The first responsibility of a

leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank

you. In between, the leader is a servant." Max DePree 

A Final Final Word"Individuals have made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life

when they plant shade trees under which they know full well they will never sit."

D. Elton Trueblood