Leading Hope with Kevin Jack

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Audacity has two definitions

1. A willingness to take bold risks.

2. Rude or disrespectful behavior.

To Lead is Audacious.

To want to lead is audacious.

To lead itself is audacious. The question will be how far into audacity are you willing to go.

Creativity is 3 things

1. Creativity is solving common problems with unique solutions.

2. Creativity is solving unique problems with common solutions.

3. Creativity is solving unique problems with unique solutions.

Things to know about creativity:

1. Everyone can imagine.

2. Imitation precedes innovation. We often have to do what everyone does before we can do what we uniquely do.

3. Be willing to be bad.

Leader Notes

Get Rid of Authority

– Not tasks, authority and decision-making power.

– There is a right time to get rid of authority, don’t just pass it off blindly and flippantly.

Get Rid of Accessibility

– You release accessibility as it is necessary, not desired. (When you “have to” not at the start when you want to.)

Get Rid of Credit

– If you want to build a great organization and not a “cult of personality” you have to get rid of credit.

The bigger you get the less people are on the same page in regards to the past, present, and future.

When less people are “in the know”, what is “in the know” needs to become less.

Complexity is the enemy of culture.

What your goal is: memorable.

1. Easy

2. Obvious

3. Repeatable

Questions:

1. Values: How many are there? How are they repeated? How often are they repeated? Are there stories that are connected to them?

2. Strategy: Can you draw it? Can you draw it and it all looks the same?

3. Vision: If everyone on your team wrote down 4 sentences to “What are we trying to accomplish?” How close would their answers be? How about the organization as a whole.

You can’t really improve until you start to eliminate (release).

Key Part of the Strategy: Focus on Momentum

You don’t focus on improving everything, you focus on improving what is essential to your momentum, begin eliminating outside that.

Fire Bullets, then Cannonballs.

Don’t just improve the quality, improve the quality around momentum and release programs that aren’t momentum contributors.

3 Basic Categories:

1. What needs improved?

2. What needs simplified/clarified?

3. What needs released?

To make an improvement isn’t complicated, but to go to another level is.

Switch the thinking from “Symbols are what you inherit” to “Symbols can be what you create”.

Symbols communicate what is valued.

Resistance to change comes because we now tilt away from something we currently value and towards something we don’t.

The Power of the Symbol is in its felt meaning. The deeper the symbol, the deeper the meaning.

Focus on playing the role that is needed instead of the role that is familiar.

The Roles:

The role of the coach is to elevate performance of the group.

The role of the counselor is to create clarity on where clients are, where they want to be, and how to get there.

The role of the consultant is to provide insight that creates actionable improvement.

The role of the manager is to align individual actions with overall goals and provide accountability to those actions.

You need to know which role you’re in and play the ones that’s needed not the one you like the most.