Leadership Gold

Unit 1.If it is lonely at the top, you are not doing something right

1. 1. Loneliness is not a leadership issue
   2. Taking others to the top
   3. Advice to lonely leaders

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Unit 2. The toughest person to lead is always yourself

1. 1.  The toughest person to lead is you
   2. Four tips to lead yourself
   3. Accountability to lead yourself

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Unit 3. Defining moments define your leadership

1. 1. Who did you become after the crisis
   2. Your true color will show when you are hard-pressed
   3. As a leader, you are paid for your top 5% performance

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Unit 4. When you get kicked in the rear, you know you are out in the front

1. 1. Being kicked from the back?
   2. Know yourself
   3. Change yourself
   4. Accept yourself
   5.  Forget yourself

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Unit 5. Never work a day in your life

1. 1. Talent is not enough
   2. Education and great team
   3. Make success your passion
   4. Thomas Edison never works a day in his life
   5. Work and Love

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Unit 6. The best leaders are listeners

1. 1. Listening is more important than speaking
   2. Half theories and benefits of listening
   3. Interview with new staff
   4. Listening is the best way to learn
   5. Listening keeps problems from escalating
   6. Listening builds trust and improves organization

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Unit 7. Get in the zone and stay there

1. 1. The purpose of life
   2. Work on your gift, they will make room for you
   3. Work on your strength and get other people to cover your weakness
   4. Find out where people usually praise you
   5. Effective leaders breed more leaders
   6. Check out the competition

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Unit 8. A leader’s first responsibility is to define reality

1. 1. Defining reality with Jack Welch’s note
   2. Effective leaders are objective
   3. Reality check with Peter Drucker’s note
   4. Guarding against unrealistic thinking
   5. Do you think there is too much to do or overdoing?

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Unit 9. To see how the leader is doing, look at the people

1. 1. Look at his people if you want to know how their leader is doing
   2. A few simple questions for leaders to ask themselves
   3. Are the people following?
   4. Are they people changing?
   5. Are the people growing?
   6. Are the people succeeding

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Unit 10. Don’t send your ducks to eagle school

1. 1. Don’t send your duck to eagle school
   2. You will frustrate the duck
   3. You will frustrate the eagle
   4. You will frustrate yourself

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Unit 11. Keep your mind on the main thing

1. 1. Keep the main thing the main thing
   2. Determine not to know everything
   3. Determine not to know everything first
   4. Determine to let someone represent you
   5. Stay on your strength

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Unit 12. Your biggest mistake is not asking what mistake you are making

1. 1. Your biggest mistake is not asking what mistakes you are making
   2. Admit your mistakes and weaknesses
   3. Accept your mistakes and weaknesses
   4. Ask yourself what could go wrong and ask people to push back

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Unit 13. Don’t manage your time – Manage your life

1. 1. Don’t manage your time, manage your life
   2. Don’t undervalue your uniqueness
   3. Don’t ruin your effectiveness
   4. Don’t reduce your potential

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Unit 14. Keep learning to keep leading

1. 1. How do you start learning
   2. Invest in yourself first
   3. Be a continual learner
   4. Create growth environment

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Unit 15. Leaders distinguish themselves during tough times

1. 1. What is a leader to do?
   2. The tough call demands risk
   3. Tough call brings with it an inward battle
   4. Prepare for tough times

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Unit 16. People quit people, Not companies

1. 1. People quit people, not companies
   2. People quit people who devalue them
   3. People quit untrustworthy people
   4. People quit incompetent and insecure leaders
   5. Recipe for retention

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Unit 17. Experience is not the best teacher

1. 1. Experience is not the best teacher
   2. We all experience more than we understand
   3. Lack of experience is costly
   4. Your attitude toward unplanned and unpleasant experiences will determine your growth 
   5. Evaluated experience is the best teacher

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Unit 18. The secret to a good meeting is the meeting before the meeting

1. 1. Things to do before the meetings
   2. Helps you to receive buy in
   3. Helps the followers to gain perspective
   4. Helps you to increase your influence
   5. Helps you to build trust and avoid being blindsided
   6. Categories for meeting agenda
   7. Do not have meetings for the sake of meetings

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Unit 19. Be a connector, not just a climber

1. 1. Be a connector, not just a climber
   2. Traits of climbers and connectors
   3. I want to win with you

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Unit 20. The choices you make, Make you

1. 1. The choice is yours
   2. My choices have revealed myself
   3. The choices you made change who you were
   4. I set a higher standard for myself
   5. Helping people is more important than pleasing people
   6. Focus on the present

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Unit 21. Influence should be loaned but never given

1. 1. What is influence for
   2. Things to do to increase your influence
   3. Influence is to speak for non-influential and to the influential
   4. Influence is to loan and pass it on to others
   5. Never fail to establish your own influence while loaning from others

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Unit 22. For everything you gain, you give up something

1. 1. For everything you gain, you give up something
   2. What will you trade?

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Unit 23. Those who start the journey with you seldom finish with you

1. 1. Not everyone can or should take the journey with you
   2. Deal with uncommitted and unproductive members
   3. I believed I can’t replace them

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Unit 24. Few leaders are successful unless a lot of people want them to be

1. 1. Few leaders are successful unless a lot of people want them to be
   2. Mentors and supporters
   3. Vision depends on others

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Unit 25. You only get answers to the questions you ask

1. 1. You only get answers to the questions you ask
   2. Invest in yourself
   3. Do you love what you do?
   4. Are you taking others to a higher level?
   5. Are you taking the time to think?

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Unit 26. People will summarize your life in one sentence – Pick one now

1. 1. Choose your legacy
   2. Live your legacy

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