dead leaders lessons from the lives and violent deaths of the world’s most influential people
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Dead Leaders
Lessons from the Livesand Violent Deaths of the World’s Most Influential People
Great Leaders
• Mohandas Gandhi• Martin Luther King Jr.• Jesus Christ• Abraham Lincoln• John F. Kennedy
1. Sacrificial Suffering
If a man hasn’t discoveredsomething he will die for,
he isn’t fit to live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
1. Sacrificial Suffering
A human being's moral integrity begins
when he is willing to sacrifice
his life for his convictions.
Henning Von Tresckow
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Influence
- - Suffering +
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Influence
- - Sacrifice +
1. Sacrificial Suffering
Great leaders endure suffering.Terrible leaders inflict suffering.
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Influence
- - Comfort +
1. Sacrificial Suffering
What am I willing to sacrifice in order to increase my influence?
2. Powerful Purpose
• Independence• Justice• Unity• Redemption
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Perseverance
- - Purpose +
2. Powerful Purpose
Am I pursuing a goal that is worth suffering for?
3. Heroic Humility
In times of crisis we think that we need
bold and daring decisions from our leaders,
but we don’t. We need humility.
Malcolm Gladwell
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Influence
- - Humility +
3. Heroic Humility
A man who is all wrapped up in himself
makes a very small package.
Martin Luther King Jr.
3. Heroic Humility
Celebrity is inversely correlated with leadership success.
Jim Collins, Good to Great
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Influence
- - Pride +
3. Heroic Humility
Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that,
but the truly great make you feel
that you too can become great.
Mark Twain
4. Dangerous Deviance
Heretics, troublemakers and change agents
aren’t merely thorns in our side,they are the keys to our success.
Seth Godin
Excellence is a form of deviance.
The way to achieve and maintainexcellence is to deviate from the norm.
You become excellent because you aredoing things that normal people do notwant to do.
Robert Quinn, Deep Change
Deviance will always generate externalpressures to conform.
If you perform beyond the norms, the systems will adjust and try to make you normal.
Robert Quinn, Deep Change
Great spirits have always experienced
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
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Influence
- - Deviance +
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Love
- - Hate +
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Love
- - Hate +
4. Dangerous Deviance
Am I enforcing the status quo or fighting it?
5. Immortality
The dead take to their grave, clutched in their hands,
only what they have given away.
DeWitt Wallace
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Immortality
- - Generosity +
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Immortality
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- Greed +
Great ambition and conquest, without contribution,
are without significance.
What will your contribution be?
How will history remember you?
Those who are willing to die are the ones
that live forever.
Suffering+ Purpose+ Humility+ Deviance= Immortality
