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.
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Simply, yet profoundly,every human being
is remarkable at birth.
Our quest is to stay remarkable.
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To be who we are,and to become all that we’re
capable of becoming,is the only purpose in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Help everyone to see themselves as remarkable and then help them
to become who they see.
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See yourself as remarkable and become who you see.
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The deepest principlein human nature
is the craving to be appreciated.
William James
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The Appreciative Leader has one
primary intention -to fully appreciate and get the best out of yourself
and other people.
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People don’t wantto be appraised.
We want tobe appreciated.
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Increase your appreciation of people and their increased accountability will follow.
This is the simplest pathway toachieving personal and business aspirations.
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Maintain your ‘attitude of gratitude’
When you’re grateful for what you’ve got,you can have more of what you want.
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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.
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Always remember you are absolutely unique.Just like everybody else.
Margaret Mead
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If you want to know yourpast, look into your present conditions.
If you want to know yourfuture, look into your present actions.
Buddhist saying
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Success dependson where intention is.
Gita Bellin
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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.
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When a ship misses a harbour,it’s not usually the harbours fault.
Janet Lapp
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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
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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?
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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.
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Stress is caused by being here
and wanting to be there.
Eckhart Tolle
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Leadership isthe art ensuring
people feel valued.
Management is the practice of ensuringit’s simple for people
to deliver value.
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The most successful workplaces are those where
people feel valued,live values,
and deliver value.
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Statements about values on walls are useless
unless we live them in the halls.
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Innovation in a business context is simply change
that adds value.
Dr. Amantha Imberof Inventium
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Self-leadership precedesleading for others, which precedes
leading for leaders.
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Having a continuous attitude of gratitude is the first step to
emotional, mental, physical, spiritual, anduniversal well-being.
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It's not a question of what should I do
but who should I be.
Aristotle
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Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
Jim Rohn.
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Invest at least 20% of your time, energy and money working on your business
(with thanks to Michael Gerber).
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All breakthroughs are break “withs”old ways of thinking.
Thomas Kuhn
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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
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Pessimists have trouble making room for possibility, and thus possibility has trouble
finding room for pessimists.
Seth Godin
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Don’t let yesterdayuse up too much of today
Will Rogers
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The most successful leaders have mentors and are being mentors for others.
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Your number one role as a leader is to help other people
to unleash and enhance their gifts (talents).
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Ensure people have accountability to make
decisions at every transaction and interaction point of your business.
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Ensure people have accountability to make
decisions at every transaction and interaction point of your business.
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Every moment matters.
If things don't work out in this moment, you can adjust in the next moment.
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It always seems impossibleuntil it's done.
Nelson Mandela
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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.
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Strategic planningis an oxymoron.
Strategy is a like a compass. It confirms our direction,
and therefore guidesour decision-making.
Execution is the map.
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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.
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Co-create a culture of
candour where people are having candid and convivial
conversations about their piece of your execution
map every day.
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Ensure that appreciating people when they do well and helping them to be accountable when
they don't are integral to daily conversations.
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Compete with yourself. Take responsibility for your intentions,
feelings, thoughts, actions and behaviours.
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Collaborate and let other people be responsible for their intentions,
feelings, thoughts, actions and behaviours.
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Co-create a shared-view about how your values will be lived behaviourially.
Just having words has no value.
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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).
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Give people immediate positive feedback when you see them living the behaviours of
your values, and feedforward when they don't.
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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.
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Stop saying you don't have time. You have 168 hours every week and what you
do with every second is your choice.
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Technology does not run an enterprise,relationships do.Patricia Fripp
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Make a list at the end of every month as to what you'll
stay doing, stop doing,
and start doing, and follow it.
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Say please, thank you, and I love you. They're still the
most powerful words in every language.
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Stay focused on reasons, relationships and routines.
Result follow.
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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
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Home is that place which,when you go there,
they have to let you in.
Robert Frost
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Inherent in every desireis the means to achieve it.
Deepak Chopra
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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
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Discipline is the bridge betweenthought and accomplishment.
Jim Rohn
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Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world.
For indeed, that’s all who ever have.
Margaret Mead
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Sometimes I wonder if the world is being runby smart people who are putting us on,
or imbeciles who really mean it.
Mark Twain
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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
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You see things; and you say, Why?But I dream things that never were;
and I say Why not?
George Bernard Shaw
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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
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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
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Be Kind; Everyone You Meet is
Fighting a Hard Battle.
attributed toJohn Watson
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What would you add to this list? I'd love to know your thoughts. Please email [email protected]
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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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