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How do we release the intellect and initiative of each member of the organization toward a common purpose?
With fascinating storytelling and deep understanding of what motivates and inspires
What are the three legs?
Control, competence, clarity
What is the Winning formula?
Not leader-follower but leader-leader
What is Captain Marquet's thesis?
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What does he encourage leaders to release?
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What is Leadership?
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List the two groups of people.
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What is the root cause of vexation within both parties in the workplace?
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List Empowerment's three contradictions.
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What is the Business as Usual Chapter about?
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People who are treated as followers treat others as followers when it's their turn to lead.
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What is the change of course chapter's words of encouragement?
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What did he learn from their pain and frustration?
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What does whatever they tell me to do point to?
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What was the problem for Asante Fe?
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What is delegation?
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Leader-follower is:
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Avoiding mistakes become the ____ of the crew and leadership.
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The best way not to make a mistake is not to _____ or make ______.
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Reducing mistakes would be an important side benefit to ____________.
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Part of achieving excellence would be acquiring an intimate understanding of _____ that is what caused them and what we needed to do to eliminate them.
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The crew was in a self-reinforcing downward spiral where poor practices resulted in mistakes, mistakes resulted in ______ and ______ resulted in avoiding initiative and going into a survival mode of doing only what was absolutely necessary.
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In order to break this cycle, I'd need to radically change the daily motivation by shifting the focus from ______.
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Achieve excellence, don't just avoid errors is a mechanism for ____.
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What's control?
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What does deconstructing decision authority mean?
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What are the mechanisms into three groups?
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What's eyeball accountability?
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What do worries usually fall into?
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Genetic code and rewrite it is a mechanism for?
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What does 'I have the authority and ability to empower you and you don't that's _______' imply?
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Study Notes
Leadership Philosophy
- Releasing intellect and initiative of each member aligns everyone towards a common purpose through storytelling and motivation.
- A leader-leader approach is essential for success, shifting from traditional leader-follower dynamics.
Empowerment
- Empowerment appears as a reaction to prior disempowerment, showing the need for inclusive leadership.
- People excel when given specific goals with broad latitude to achieve them, enhancing overall organizational performance.
Leadership Dynamics
- Current leadership models are outdated, leading to frustration and disengagement among team members.
- High-performing leaders should foster an environment that prevents followers from acting like followers when it's their turn to lead.
Challenges in Leadership
- Transitioning to new leadership styles often requires encouragement and recognition of team members’ potential.
- Mistakes in leadership create a prime focus on avoiding errors, which stifles initiative and promotes survival mode behavior.
Achieving Excellence
- Fostering a culture of excellence involves understanding errors and focusing on their eradication rather than merely avoiding mistakes.
- A mechanism for clarity is achieved by focusing on achieving excellence instead of just preventing errors.
Decision Making
- Control over decision-making means decentralizing authority where information resides, promoting faster and informed decisions.
- Eyeball accountability emphasizes the leader's physical presence in operations to ensure engagement and oversight.
Categories of Concern
- Most leadership worries can be categorized into competence issues (skills and abilities) and clarity issues (understanding processes and goals).
- Understanding the genetic code of an organization allows leaders to rewrite the dynamics for better control and empowerment.
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