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Slide 1: Change is INN Thank you for Joining us on the Stay Real journey this week… RICCR: Richmond VA June 2-5, 2009
Slide 2: Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. ~ Warren Bennis
Slide 6: Leaders see more in other people than other people see in themselves. ~ Unknown
Slide 7: Leaders are not born. Leaders are made, and they are made by effort and hard work. ~ Vince Lombardi
Slide 9: Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. ~ Jonathan Swift
Slide 10: Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things. ~ Jesse Jackson
Slide 11: If you own the problem, you own the customer. If you lose the problem, you lose the customer. It’s just that simple. ~ Unknown
Slide 12: Leaders also know that their real security lies in their personal capabilities, not in their power or position. ~ Max DePree
Slide 13: It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed. ~ Harvey S. Firestone
Slide 15: People support what they create. ~ Unknown
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Slide 17: We expected that good-togreat leaders would begin by setting a new vision and strategy. We found instead that they first got the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats — and then they figured out where to drive it. ~ Jim Collins, author of Good to Great
Slide 18: Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. ~ Anthony Robbins
Slide 19: Your job is to touch everyone and get into their soul. ~ Jack Welch
Slide 20: The object is not to see through one another, but to see one another through. ~ Peter DeVries
Slide 21: Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learnt by reading about it. ~ Henry Mintzberg
Slide 22: Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.-- Albert Camus
Slide 23: “There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstance permit. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.”
Slide 25: “Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination, allows vision, and gives us the "right stuff" to turn our dreams into reality.” James Womack
Slide 26: “Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.” Mario Andretti
Slide 28: The term “power” comes from the Latin posse: to do, to be able, to change, to influence or effect. To have power is to possess the capacity to control or direct change. All forms of leadership must make use of power. The central issue of power in leadership is not Will it be used? But rather Will it be used wisely and well? ~ Al Gini
Slide 31: Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future. ~ Edwin H. Friedman
Slide 32: A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be. ~ Rosalynn Carter
Slide 35: The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. ~ Warren Bennis
Slide 37: “Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.” ~ Unknown
Slide 38: “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” ~ Henry Ford
Slide 40: The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, but has enough self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
Slide 41: The only safe ship in a storm is leadership. ~ Faye Wattleton
Slide 42: If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants. ~ Isaac Newton
Slide 43: You can teach the head … But it is HARDER to teach the heart.
Slide 44: “A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.” ~ Lao Tzu
Slide 46: “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” ~ John C. Maxwell
Slide 48: “A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves” ~ Unknown
Slide 49: “Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people” ~ Nido Qubein
Slide 51: “Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing expands possibilities like unleashed imagination.” ~ William Arthur Ward
Slide 52: It's not whether you win or lose, It's how you play the game. It is important to win but equally important as to know how to lose graciously and learn from losing. It is all about balance. ~ Grantland Rice
Slide 56: “The value of achievement lies in the achieving.” ~ Albert Einstein
Slide 57: Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.-John Evelyn
Slide 58: Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.-Anonymous
Slide 59: You were selected to be a GEC…. But there should be a little GEC in EVERYONE.
Slide 60: Thanks for keeping it REAL this week because the journey ahead will require you to… STAY REAL! The future is in YOUR hands! Susie & Ruth