The Hard Truths that Come with High Rewards

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The Hard Truths that Come with High Rewards

• Last Lecture Series Presentation
• April 22, 2009
• Sponsored by Delta Sigma Phi
• Anderson School of Management
• University of New Mexico
• Scott N. Taylor, PhD
• sntaylor_at_unm.edu

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Lesson 1

• Success and leadership are not what most of us
  have been told they are by multiple sources in
  our lives.

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A Quiz

• Name the 5 wealthiest people in the world.
• Name the last 5 People Magazines Most Beautify
  men or women.
• Name the last 5 National Basketball Associations
  (NBA) most valuable player award winners.
• Name the last 5 presidents of almost any
  organization.

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A Quiz

• Name 5 people who have taught you something that
  profoundly affected your life.
• Name 5 people who have helped you when you were
  having difficulty.
• Name 5 people with whom youd like to spend the
  rest of your life.
• Name 5 people you admire the most.

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Lesson 1 Summary

• Even more than competence, people will trust
  character
• Great leadership springs out of a climate of
  people rooted in moral integrity
• Leadership is a relationship. It is not about
  having or not having a particular position.
• No success can compensate for failure in the
  relationships that matter most.

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Lesson 2

• Become more comfortable with volatility,
  uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA).

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Lesson 2 Summary

• Volatility yields to Vision
• Uncertainty yields to Understanding
• Complexity yields to Clarity
• Ambiguity yields to Agility

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May 9, 2003
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Siege and standoff

• 7-hour standoff with police
• 95 faculty, staff, and student hostages
• 250,000 physical damage
• 100 SWAT officers responded
• 10 or more point blank misfires
• 3 shot, 1 killed instantly

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Lesson 3

• Learn to anticipate how others experience you and
  your leadership.
• Become ever more other-focused as you work to be
  ever more authentic and true to the values which
  give you power.

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Lesson 3 Summary

• Sometimes it is good not to see yourself as
  others see you.
• How you see yourself is only one aspect of
  self-awareness. There is another aspect that is
  important to leadership.

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Lesson 4

• Positive emotions matter and the ratio of
  positive to negative is critical.

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Your Assignment

• Identify 20 acquaintances
• Ask them to write three short anecdotes in
  response to the question When you have seen me
  make a special or important contribution, what
  distinctive strengths did I display? or
  alternatively, When you have seen me at my best,
  what unique value did I create?
• Look at the sixty stories and identify key themes
  that frame a self portrait of key strengths and
  unique talents you haveinformation that is both
  rare and extremely valuable.
• Identify strategies for capitalizing on these
  strengths.