Dyer’s Dozen

After recently revisiting a book by Wayne Dyer that he read many years ago, Ralph was inspired to discuss with Bill the 12 principles the author identified as critical to effective leadership – “Dyer’s Dozen.” How many are you already practicing, and which do you need to introduce or optimize to enhance your own leadership?

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Bill Berthel: Welcome to the Get Emergent Podcast, where we discuss leadership concepts and best practices. We like to provide ideas, concepts, and pragmatic experiments to help you develop as a leader. I’m Bill Berthel.

Ralph Simone: And I’m Ralph Simone. And Bill, today I came across some things I’ve been unpacking. You know, I moved recently and starting to realize that I have too many books, so not a thing, not a thing.

The listeners out there. I, I need to make some donations, but I’m, I’m looking at, I need to buy more bookshelves and I still have boxes and boxes of books that I haven’t emptied yet. But one of the positive things that came about is I’ve been starting to reread some things that I read many years ago and I think it’s like reading them for the first time. Right. You, You’re at a different place. Things that you notice about the books and, and one of my favorite authors, uh, was Wayne Dyer. I read a lot of what Wayne Dyer wrote over the years, and I think he was a positive influence in a lot of my coaching and consulting work.

And I came across something that I had framed for friends of mine called Dyers Dozen. I was looking this list over and I was intrigued. First of all, you know, I. What did he mean by these? But I think, so today I want you and I to talk about what they mean to us and how people could use them in their own personal development.

Bill Berthel: That’s fantastic.

Ralph Simone: And he starts his first one and, and, uh, is want more for others than you want for yourself.

Bill Berthel: Yeah. I think in our language we refer to that often as the selfless leader. The servant leader. Many people attached to Greenleaf’s work in leadership from a service, a place of service. I love that space.

Ralph Simone: I think it also speaks to abundance. Because if you’re thinking from abundance, you’re not worried about not being enough for you, but wanting more for others. And I think in coaching, that’s really important. You know, holding the space and wanting others to really step into their full potential. Which leads us to number two, which is one I I have thought a lot about.

Think from the end. And of course, my foundation is, this was with Stephen Covey Habit. Two of the seven habits begin with the end in mind. I think too often we start meetings, we start conversations, we start careers without having at least. Some clarity about what is our desired outcome.

Bill Berthel: Yeah, I think it’s a great way of being clear of your intentions in the Covey work, the one exercise of, you know, writing your own eulogy, so, Does that from like a lifespan perspective. Matter of fact, just in a coaching engagement yesterday, this exact topic came up and I threw that possible activity out and it w