words to lead by - ian berry
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Ian Berry
Wordsto lead by
a manifesto
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Leadership isthe art of inspiring people
to bring everything remarkable that they are
to everything they do.
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Leadership falters,and usually very badly,without management.
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Management isthe practice of making
it simple for peopleto bring everything
remarkable that they areto everything they do.
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Remarkable is the new normal.
Great is no longer good enough.
Sameness is the slippery slope to oblivion.
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We’re all remarkablesimply by virtue of our birth.
Then life happensand we all need
inspiring, reminding and sometimes persuading that
we’re remarkable.
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A grave mistake we’ve made is seeing and treating people as if
they’re resources, assets, or capital.
The key to the present and future success of your business is human to human connection.
It’s all about seeing and treating everyone as the one-of-a-kind human being
that each of us is.
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Seeing yourself as remarkable and becoming who you seeis the only purpose in life.
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Disrupt yourself.Leading for others and leading for
change begins with leading one’s self.Self-leadership is everyone’s business.
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All change is personal first.
Relationship change is second.
And organisational change is a distant third.
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When most people talk about change, what they actually mean is everyone else changing
and not them.
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Human beingsare willing to change.
We are not prepared to be changed.
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Regardless of yourproduct/s/service/s
you’re in thechange business.
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Employees are first,customers/clients second,other stakeholders third,shareholders are last.
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The number one role of leadership is to enhance people’s gifts (talents), your own, and those of the people around you.
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The number one role of management is to ensure
that PPPPS’s (policies, procedures, practices,
processes and systems), mean it is simple for people
to bring their best to their work every day.
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The operating structure of your business is a value delivery chain
where everyone has a role to deliver value to others.
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People don’t have jobs, they have roles.
The key to all to roles is relationships with others and the value delivered to others
that they desire, demand, and feel that they deserve.
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Throw out job descriptions and replace them with role clarity
statements on one page.
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Your employees don’t care about your business goals.
Not relative to their own goals.
Help your employees achieve what’s important to them. Then they’ll help you to achieve your business goals.
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All human beings have aspirations.
Appreciation and accountability conversations are the catalyst for
turning aspirations into achievements.
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Have each of your employees document their personal aspirations and what
they’ll do towards achieving them in the next 90 days on one side of an A4 page.
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On the other side of the same A4 page have your employees document their aspirations for their role and what they’ll do towards achieving them
in the next 90 days.
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Role model and encourage people to have candid conversations with each other that appreciate people when they do well and help them to be accountable when things don’t go according to
the plan documented on the one page.
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To consistently bring our one-of-a-kind selves to our work, we must ensure that high quality and candid conversations with ourselves (self-talk)
and other people, are integral to daily life.
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We must continually up date our one page performance possibility plan (PPP) so that our daily conversations fully appreciate the reality
of what is and the lure of what can be.
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People don’t want to be appraised. We want to be appreciated.
When we feel appreciated we become accountable. Optimum
performance follows.
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Strategy is like a compass.
Execution is like a quilt map.
When every employee has their piece
your strategy will get executed.
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Strategy and executionare servants of cultureand change leadership.
Strategic planning likechange management
and people management is an oxymoron!
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If you can’t describe your strategy in a sentence,
it’s unlikely you have a strategy that is simple to execute.
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There are 3 views, yours, mine, and ours.
Only ours really matters.
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Remarkable leaders sustain ashared-view with others about:
where we are (reality)where we’re going (possibility)
why we’re going there (purpose)how we’ll get there (strategy)
who will do what and when (execution)how we’ll know we’re on track (lead measures)
how we’ll behave along the way (culture and values)
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Candid conversations that are integral to daily workthat sustain shared-view and embrace appreciation
and accountability are the bedrock of optimum performance cultures.
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When your valuesare lived in the hall,you don’t need themwritten on your wall.
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When values are lived, value is being delivered, and people feel valued,
you have the foundationsin place for a remarkable business.
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Everyone who’s candid and authentic realises there’s always a gap between what is and
what can be.
The joy and quest of life is the continuous pursuit
of closing this gap.
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The deeper the reason for being, the more
remarkable the pursuitof closing the gap
between what is and what can be.
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Profit is not a reason for being in business. Profit is a result of
being good at business.
Focus on your reason and you’ll achieve
better results.
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The most successful people I know focus on
reasons,rituals,
and relationships.Results follow.
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A pathway toliving on purpose:Appreciate.
Imagine.Create.Leap.
Positive Momentum.= achieving what we want.
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Appreciate what is,the remarkable,
the great, the good,and the bad and the ugly.
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Imagine what can be.
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Create a one page plan (you guessed it 90 days
focus) to move from what is to what can be,
one quantum leap at a time.
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Quantum leap misconception: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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Appreciate.Imagine.Create.Leap.means
Positive Momentum.which will
= achieving what you want.
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When you and all your employees live like this and you have daily, candid
conversations using your plans as the focusing tool, you will win your greatest challenge as a leader, that of closing the gap between what people are currently doing and what they’re capable of doing.
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Imagine that!
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Much of technology including social media is anti-social.
Use technology as a kit bag of wonderful tools, yet never forget that present and future success
is about human to human connection.
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Every day we’re faced with problems to solve. Real leaders innovate (change what’s normal)
instead of solving problems, which usually means the reinstating of the status quo.
Every day innovation matters much more than coming up with the next big thing.
Intention
Feelings
Thoughts
Actions
Results
Contact
Connection
Common Ground
Commitment
CompeteWith
Yourself
Continuity
CollaborateWith
Others
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Think like a maverick.- rebels, radicals, dissenters, disrupters, heretics, non-conformists, contrarians,
mavericks, the label doesn’t matter, think differently.
In your own waybecome a Maverick Thinker today.
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Share your story in person and online in ways
that people can feel, and see themselves in your story.
The best storiestell us what is
and what can beand inspire usto go there.
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Ian Berry Idealistic Pragmatist
simplifying leadership/management to enable profound human connection
and performance since 1991.
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