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| Thursday, May 22 | | · | The Six Stories You Need to Know How to Tell, Part 4 |
| Wednesday, May 21 | | · | The Six Stories You Need to Know How to Tell, Part 3 |
| Tuesday, May 20 | | · | The Six Stories You Need to Know How to Tell, Part 2 |
| Monday, May 19 | | · | The Six Stories You Need to Know How to Tell, Part 1 |
| Thursday, May 15 | | · | What do you do when you're having a bad day? |
| Wednesday, May 14 | | · | The Power of One |
| Tuesday, May 13 | | · | The Six Most Important Words for a Leader? |
| Monday, May 12 | | · | The Seven Secrets of Inspiring Leaders |
| · | Thomas Edison in the face of adversity |
| Friday, May 09 | | · | To Real Leadership, Alignment is Everything |
| Thursday, May 08 | | · | What Leaders Have In Common |
| Wednesday, May 07 | | · | Quiet Leadership |
| Tuesday, May 06 | | · | WILL |
| Monday, May 05 | | · | Number 80 on Change |
| Monday, April 07 | | · | MMMmmmm....Donut |
| Sunday, April 06 | | · | Leadership Style |
| · | Life = Risk |
| · | L - E - A - D |
| · | Lessons in Integrity |
| · | Going from CT to ET is hard if you are on auto-pilot |
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Welcome
Hi, I’m Number 9, and welcome to Kill the Leader. First, a few things: First: To the FBI / CIA / Secret Service: It’s just a website about leadership, teamwork and alignment. Calm down. Second: At Kill the Leader you may use no names, neither yours nor your companies Third: This site and it’s purpose really won’t make any sense until your read the FAQ
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Best quote I've seen in years
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| Posted by admin on Sunday, June 22 @ 15:12:17 MST (7164 reads) |
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Anonymous writes ""If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much."
That line comes from the grandaddy of personal development, Mr. Jim Rohn and I think it's a doozy." |
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Have you defined what success means for you?
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| Posted by admin on Sunday, June 08 @ 21:08:13 MST (596 reads) |
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"Have you defined what success means for you and for your life? Unless you have thought through the answer to that question, you are at risk of letting others define success for you or trying to keep up with their definitions of success. Only when you can define what is most important in your life can you set the right priorities for your life and become an integrated leader" - Bill George with Peter Sims, True North |
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Six Leadership Lessons For Everyone
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| Posted by admin on Thursday, June 05 @ 21:43:06 MST (547 reads) |
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After a dynamic week of training and playing in the Bahamas with a client group, I spent some time reflecting on the leadership lessons that came from the experience. And while you may not have the opportunity to head South, you can implement any and all of these in your own business. |
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Kill the Leader! Manage conflict correctly
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How important is an “elevator speech” to your business?
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How to be the Person Others Follow
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| Posted by admin on Tuesday, May 27 @ 15:20:28 MST (609 reads) |
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Leaders are hard to find. They exhibit a unique blend of charisma, vision and character traits that attract people to follow them. They exhibit the other nine characteristics around which this article series was developed.
Leaders recognize the need to attract followers. Followership has recently been studied as a key to understanding leadership. To follow, people must feel confidence in the direction in which the leader is headed. They are enabled and empowered to do their part in accomplishing the stated objectives.
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The Six Stories You Need to Know How to Tell, Part 8
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| Posted by admin on Monday, May 26 @ 00:00:00 MST (535 reads) |
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VI. "I know what you are thinking" Stories
When you tell a story that makes people wonder if you are reading their minds, they love it. It
isn’t hard to do. If you have done your homework on the group/person you wish to influence it is
relatively easy to identify their potential objections to your message. If you name their objections
first, you are that much closer to disarming them. Maybe people more easily release objections if
they have not staked themselves out by naming them. Maybe they are grateful that you brought it
up and they didn’t have to. Maybe they see respect in your taking the time to think things
through from their perspective. Or …maybe you just come off as eerily wise like fake psychics
do when they guess at the easy stuff. |
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The Six Stories You Need to Know How to Tell, Part 7
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| Posted by admin on Sunday, May 25 @ 00:00:00 MST (4677 reads) |
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"Values-in-Action" Stories
Without a doubt, the best way to teach a value is "by example." The second best way is to tell a
story that provides an example. Story lets you instill values in a way that keeps people thinking
for themselves. "We value integrity," means nothing. But tell a story about a former employee
who hid his mistake and cost the company thousands or a story about a salesperson who owned
up to a mistake and earned so much trust her customer doubled his order and you begin to teach
an employee what integrity means. |
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The Six Stories You Need to Know How to Tell, Part 6
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| Posted by admin on Saturday, May 24 @ 00:00:00 MST (705 reads) |
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IV. Teaching Stories
Whatever your role in life, you have certain skills that you want others to have, too. Whether you
need to teach someone how to write a letter, design software, answer a telephone, make a sale, or
manage a group of volunteers, story halves the necessary teaching time. Too many people get
mad at those they wish to teach because, "they just don’t get it." Rather than banging your head
against a wall, why not find a story that successfully delivers whatever it is you want them to
"get." Often the message you want to send is less about what you want them to do and more
about how you want it done. |
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The Six Stories You Need to Know How to Tell, Part 5
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| Posted by admin on Friday, May 23 @ 00:00:00 MST (775 reads) |
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"The Vision" Story
If your listener(s) are comfortable with who you are and why you are here then they are ready to
listen to what you think is in it for them. I don’t think anyone sets out to influence others without
the understanding that we need to demonstrate some benefit of compliance — some "what’s in it
for them." However, many people do a lousy job of painting a moving picture of benefits. Either
the speaker is too focused on what she sees to translate it into terms that her listeners can see or
she gives some linear fact-based description that is as appetizing as saying "cold raw fish tastes
good" when she should be telling a story about sensuality of eating sushi.
A CEO’s vision to "become a $2 Billion company in five years" might get him up in the morning
but it doesn’t mean squat to his regional manager, sales people or the administration assistant
down the hall. |
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