WHAT DOES THE FUTURE LEADER LOOK LIKE?

is leading by example

Is Ferocious

IS ENJOYING THE PROCESS

is present

is priortizing

blue ocean leadership

• Reduce
• Eliminate
• Raise
• Create

IS SOLUTION FOCUSED

Is expecting the best

Is inspecting

IS leaving a legacy

IS UNTYING "KNOTS"

IS FOCUSED

• Focusing on Yourself
• Focusing on Others
• Focusing on the Wider World

Focusing on Others

• Cognitive Empathy
• Emotional Empathy
• Conative Empathy

is communicating effectively

Language and Action

• Requests / Ask
• Promises / Commitment
• Declarations
• Assessments
• Assertions

Ten Linguistic Viruses

• Not making requests
• Making unclear requests
• Living with uncommunicated expectations
• Not observing the mood of requesting
• Promising even when you aren't clear what was requested

Ten Linguistic Viruses

• Not declining requests
• Breaking promises without taking care: undermining trust
• Treating assessments as the Truth or as Assertions (facts)
• Making assessments without rigorous grounding
• Making fantasy affirmations and declarations

5 Linguistic Vitamins

• Make Clear Request
• Decline with Respect and Dignity
• Listen to Assesments as " " and not as Truth
• Convert Complaints to Clear Requests
• Promise Soundly & Take Care of BP

is inspiring

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Critical Components

• Resources
• Experiential Knowledge
• Motivation
• Conditions

"It is vain to be always looking toward the future
& never acting toward it."
- John Frederick Boyes, English essayist, 1811 - 1879

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